Nothing in the flash. It was just image/emotion/connection with broad time. Natural gas has been available since the 1600s, so that is the 500 years, but there were no specifics in the flash. If I had to guess from what I know now... 100 years in the future? I'm not the full-on doomer that some climate folks are, more a long tail of crisis after crisis, some up, mostly down. (And, no I don't have any beliefs about the mechanism of the "flash" or my self-guided meditation insights or any of that... I just experience it, and sometimes it is pretty weird.)

Well... since you went there, I do happen to have this book sitting on my bookshelf.

I still use it in 2026 as well. Those stoves do last. Every other appliance I have has been replaced once or twice, but the dead simple mechanism of natural gas goes on. I had to get a new igniter a couple years ago.

That's it. Just that flash, but looking back in time. When I was in the cabin (you know my cabin stories, right? https://orng.org/#art37 ) I had a galley size stove and oven. No electricity or running water, just that stove (and a wood-burning stove for heat as well.) The blue light for me means more than most, I'd guess. In my cabin's case, it was propane, not natural gas, but essentially the same. In my future flash, as the viewer I could feel hundreds of years of humans looking at that same flame, and realized this was part of us so deep it was an archetype different than fire (although fire certainly holds its own). I could see the flame turned down by a hand, and the viewer behind the hand that I experienced in my flash knew it was the last time, and was nostalgic, as though aware that all of those humans over those five hundred years were entwined in that moment, and it was the last.

I had a waking flash of a future memory. The viewer was remembering a past blue flame of natural gas on a stove being turned down and then off. The memory was old, part of the collective unconscious, both nostalgic and accurate, 500 years of blue flame, core to our life, extinguished, finally.

The archetype worked for many thousands of years, which is why it is an archetype. This is a long vid which is worth a watch, but I'm referring to 1:23:00 We have problems that can't be challenged in the old ways, as we no longer have runway. https://youtu.be/1Fv3S8T2nVE Again... probably projecting way to much of my own kit on this...

I guess they still make them. I found this. Quite likely the exact same, since I don't see why the molds would need to change. You take plastic like this, glue them together, and paint.

I look at it every day (Qmmp w/ a winamp skin). Oh... I remember it back in the day too, and can imitate the llama's ass bit fairly accurately.

I love to code. If people leverage deep material and data supply chains to more effectively code products, this matches the vector of modernity, but I will still enjoy coding, regardless, and could care less about assistants. (That being said, an AI match for a Stack Exchange scrape or the wonders of VS Codium/Code to kick off error indicators before I even execute, does help me understand and code better.)

The problem with current civilization implementation, is that it is awkward and a bit weird and rude to order an agent if you are uncertain. "Are you a bot?" isn't that rude. The answer is not particularly reliable, and less so over time, which is the reason for a new law.

I get it that the anecdotal conclusion is positive, but I found this: https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.9100

^ Agreed. I thought the character development and writing in Better Call Saul was better (and Breaking Bad is a high bar at that). As for OP: LOL at just 1st season of true detective (me too)

I think we need another entry for modern usage. 4. Answer truthfully when asked if you are a robot/AI. Could that be under 2? "I order you to tell me if you are a bot. Are you?" #IsaacAsimov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

I have a statement of purpose from 2020, and all of the other stuff I wrote above came after that. I'm mostly on track. I need to circle back to the journal part, eventually, after I finish my technical reference, mainly for completeness from my perspective, not necessarily for utility. One interesting thing in this thread, is that I tagged my statement of purpose with ouroboros in 2020. The entire statement of purpose is here, but there is some duplication with my links above: https://orng.org/#art1019 Quite likely there will be little use for what I work on while I'm alive. For that matter, the odds that it will be useful to somebody in the future are quite low. There is a chance, though, and that makes it worth it. I can see some of the ideas seeping through into culture, but whether or not I had anything to do with that, I have no idea. I assume not. Let's just call it something I'm tuned in to. I know that it *is* useful for building systems related to data and material flow, but not in my culture, and not in this iteration of civilization. The journal stuff is a bit more applicable. Notice that Obsidian has knowledge graphs. I don't journal myself much anymore. ORNG is a thousand pages long. I've journaled enough. Still, it would be good to focus these ideas back on a working version that was very small (my whole 1.44MB offline deal). I'm fading into nothing on many of these threads as I approach 1/x... Not trying to be vague. That is just how I experience my work. I'll never see the other side of it.

oldie but goody 1987!! https://www.nature.com/articles/328123a0 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Yes, it is a custom/low-level client I wrote. I'm using s nostril to create the envelope, plus other custom code to cross post to Nostr relays, Bluesky, Mastodon, and my ship's log at sysadmintools.com. I fixed it in my last post that I tagged you in. Nothing at all wrong with nostril, it was just the way I interpreted it. I used tagn 3 and expanded 3 tags, but that was not correct. I was unclear that there were many classes of tags. It seemed to look OK in the apps, so I've been running that way for nine months, and you are the first to mention it.

That was the first model I built... oh... 1970? I had a horrible time getting that front engine shrouding to stay put (strange I remember that going back so far, but that is my memory). It was probably a kit one of my grandfathers gave me, is my guess. Both were in WWII, and one was a marine. Your feelings are shared by one of them, I imagine. I hadn't thought of it since then. Weird memory time pinch there... wheeeee....

I am in violent agreement.

I dove into this a bit back in 2019. More on the Jesus side of your image, and on the other side I rested lower in the stack (culture/civilization). It is similar enough, though, to bring up. I thought you might be particularly interested in H. Richard Niebuhr's book Christ and Culture, and his quote of Rabbi Joseph Klausner. No, I haven't read Niebuhr's book. It was just an internet search of related ideas about Jesus as a radical (or, perhaps, even, a radical mushroom cult). By lower in the stack, I mean that it is useful to question the last 6,000 (10,000?) years. There is evidence that Jesus was radical (or the idea of Jesus, or the cult of mushroom), so it makes sense that some followers might have cleaved to those beliefs; however, underneath is the overriding culture/ideology/paradigms that drive our current, extractive global culture, and this seeps in to everything we do, in every religion. In other words, it is ideology/paradigms/culture, and not necessarily Christianity that is at fault here. Breaking off requires an Amish level of commitment. (Not saying that is the only form, just that resisting the global extractive culture is a hard problem for a subculture.) https://orng.org/#art909

You might find this useful as you study this kind of stuff: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m A bit more about Tom Murphy: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/tom-murphy-profile/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37346272/ Seemed like something you might be interested in.