So long waiting and preparing for this💯 Matthew McConaughey: And I do have a little pride about not wanting to use an open-ended AI to share my information so it can be part of the worldwide AI vernacular. I am interested though, in a private LLM where I can upload, Hey, here's three books are written. Here's my other favorite books, here's my favorite articles I've been cutting and pasting over the 10 years, and log all that in and here's all my journals, whatever the people, and log all that in so I can ask it questions based on that and basically learn more about myself.

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Neutering, from the Latin neuter, is the removal of a non-human animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part. The male-specific term is castration, while spaying is usually reserved for female animals. Colloquially, both terms are often referred to as fixing. Source: Wikipedia

“Gold towns” is a somewhat ambiguous label (it might refer to historical boom towns, modern mining hubs, or places with strong reputations for gold). Below is a proposed list for the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China — and often “South Africa” is added in the “BRICS” framing) — one town or city per country with a strong gold reputation, and some notes. | Country | Gold Town / City | Why Selected / Notes | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Brazil** | Ouro Preto | The focal point of Brazil’s colonial-era gold rush, originally called Vila Rica (“Rich Town”) and later UNESCO World Heritage for its baroque mining‑era infrastructure. ([UNESCO World Heritage Centre][1]) | | **Russia** | (no single “town” stands out as globally famed) *—but* Central Aldan region (Kuranakh area) | Russia’s gold production is dominated by vast mines rather than “gold towns,” but the **Central Aldan** ore district (Kuranakh deposit) is one of its premier gold districts. ([Earth Observatory][2]) | | **India** | (no definitive “gold town,” but) Kolar (in Karnataka) is historically notable | Kolar has historically been famous for its gold mines (Kolar Gold Fields, now largely defunct). It is often referenced in India’s gold‑mining lore. (This is more historical than active today.) | | **China** | Zhaoyuan (Shandong) | Zhaoyuan is nicknamed “China’s gold capital,” due to its abundant gold deposits and consistently high gold output among Chinese counties. ([Wikipedia][3]) | | **South Africa** | Germiston / Randfontein (Witwatersrand area) | The Witwatersrand “Reef” region underpins South Africa’s gold legacy; Germiston was established early in the gold rush and hosts the Rand Refinery, through which a huge share of global gold flows. ([Wikipedia][4]) | If you like, I can refine this list (for example, pick *modern* active towns, or compare in terms of output) and include “minor” gold towns per country as well. Do you want me to do that? [1]: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/124/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Historic Town of Ouro Preto" [2]: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147854/gold-mining-in-russias-central-aldan-ore-district?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Gold Mining in Russia's Central Aldan Ore District" [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoyuan%2C_Shandong?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Zhaoyuan, Shandong" [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germiston?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Germiston"

‘The treacherous are ever distrustful’

Choosing the proper boundaries between functions is perhaps the primary activity of the computer system designer. Design principles that provide guidance in this choice of function placement are among the most important tools of a system designer. This paper discusses one class of function placement argument that has been used for many years with neither explicit recognition nor much conviction. However, the emergence of the data communication network as a computer system component has sharpened this line of function placement argument by making more apparent the situations in which and reasons why it applies. This paper articulates the argument explicitly, so as to examine its nature and to see how general it really is. The argument appeals to application requirements, and provides a rationale for moving function upward in a layered system, closer to the application that uses the function. We begin by considering the communication network version of the argument.

Yes. That’s why the search for meaning so often gets projected upward or outward—into ideology, narrative, or superstition—because biology is messy, contingent, and silent on why. When behaviour emerges where we don’t expect it, we retreat to frameworks that offer comfort over clarity.

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Is it just me or do ©️'s victories seem smaller and sadder every day?

While these are non-trivial hurdles, they are surmountable. The past decade has shown an appetite for decentralization in various domains (finance, web, energy). Communications could be next, especially as people grow concerned about centralized control of networks or seek resilience against climate and geopolitical disruptions. The concept of a “user-owned public communication commons” aligns with the ethos of the internet’s early days and modern community networks. By converging improvements in protocol design (as evidenced by recent research mdpi.com mdpi.com ), signal processing (multi-packet LoRa demodulation, interference cancellation), and open collaboration (standardizing mesh protocols), we have a pathway to overcome current bottlenecks.