Smithsonian Magazine Miles Davis “Picasso of Jazz”
I don’t consider myself a jazz fan but appreciate the historical significance.
Sam Altman just forecasted today at the Cisco AI Summit that he expects fully AI companies. No humans. His new OpenAI Codex makes this very possible.
The race keeps me up at night.
I guess we’ll all have Tesla robots at home to move heavy amplifiers.
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And Starbuck’s robots to make our coffee!
Playing around with Gemini to run an analysis today convinced me that I retired at the right time.
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So, does it tell you, who won the human race?
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Only if they make better coffee then what’s served there now. Blech!
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Blue Note, an Album recorded live at the Show - Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at the Pacific Audiofest
It was hard to concentrate on reading this with “Who Let the Dogs Out” stuck in my head.
Pretty simple. Had this from the get go when Mars became a “target”. Do we have routine issues returning astronauts from Earth orbit? You are not going to be able to have modern medical instrumentation such as MRI machines—the technology requires far too deep a support structure-liquid helium for the super conducting magnets. Geez, now I have to go uncover why it is that the earth’s store of helium is locked up underground in our methane reserves.
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Not an article but words which initiated a tremendous amount of thought and discussion in my social circle.
Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.
Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.
Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos.
People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.
The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything.
Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor’s office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now.
The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not.
Meta’s defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer’s data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated.
Millions of Al-enabled cameras walking around in public.
Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter.
This is not a bug. This is the business model.
The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious:
European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design.
YIKES! Thankfully I’m a Luddite! 
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