Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #670 - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #670 - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Hey Mom, Last one for catch up mode.

And another in the series of how material just finds me: "material presents itself," as I like to say.

Looks like I have some reading to do before July and the release of this movie and it's amazing visuals.

WOW.

Just check out this trailer.

My order of excitement for this year's movies just got re-arranged.

AND I am sad to say I have not read the comic, so hence my comment - I have reading to do.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_and_the_City_of_a_Thousand_Planets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline#Collected_editions

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 672 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1705.07 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #669 - xkcd - "Lunch" order

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #669 - xkcd - "Lunch" order

Hi Mom,

Still in catch up mode.

Don't complain about auto-correct. It saves lives.

Just to be clear, this great cartoon is from xkcd - see link for the site, so awesome.

https://xkcd.com/1834/

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 671 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1705.06 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #668 - My sister - 1973

Lori in front of church 8-10-73

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #668 - My sister - 1973

Hi Mom,

Still catching up and keeping it brief.

Don't photos just speak for themselves.

This is a great one of my sister, Lori Marie.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 670 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1705.05 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #667 - TBT - 1970 - eighth birthday

Mom and me - January 19, 1970, 8th birthday

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #667 - TBT - 1970 - eighth birthday

Hi Mom,

Still in catch up mode, so brevity.

This is a great picture of you and me.

Please note the cake. That's the cast of the Brady Bunch on the side we can see.

I suspect the cast of the Partridge Family may be listed on the other side but I have not yet found the photo of the cake itself (Dad always took one) to verify this belief.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 669 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1705.04 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #666 - "Hate for Sale" - by Neil Gaiman

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #666 - "Hate for Sale" - by Neil Gaiman

Hi Mom, Still in catch up mode.

And so I saved this for post #666 because, you know, Hate, the mark of the beast, get it?

What?? The Visible Poetry Project? How come I didn't know about this?

That's awesome.

https://www.visiblepoetryproject.com/videos/

The Visible Poetry Project aims to make poetry more accessible by lifting words off the page and transforming them into short films. The colorful Hate for Sale, from Dutch animator Anna Eijsbouts, is from an original poem about the seductive power of hate by Neil Gaiman. It’s read in perfectly droll tones by Peter Kenny.

Here's the video, enjoy.




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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 668 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1705.03 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #665 - Will AI's impact on jobs finally force Silicon Valley to grow up?

http://o2opromanagement.com/baidu-restructures-to-focus-on-ai/

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #665 - Will AI's impact on jobs finally force Silicon Valley to grow up?

Hi Mom, Catch up mode.
Just a repost.
But a good one.

Will AI's impact on jobs finally force Silicon Valley to grow up?

• Published on May 2, 2017
• Featured in: Economy, Editor's Picks, Technology

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Caroline Fairchild

Senior Editor, Technology and Startups at LinkedIn

Around 2009, Oscar Salazar started working on a startup idea that we now call Uber. While he was building the ride-hailing service’s first prototype, he likely thought very little about how the application would impact society.

Seven years later, with the $70 billion ride-hailing company now available in more than 70 countries, Salazar finds himself thinking about that impact a lot more.

“We are all responsible,” he said on Monday at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles. “We are adding technology to a society without thinking about the consequences. I think government, industry and society need to work more together, because it is going to get crazier and crazier.”

In a panel discussion moderated by Recode’s Kara Swisher, the founding Uber CTO discussed how he has started to rethink the tech community's role in shaping the future of work. Advancements in artificial intelligence and automation could mean as many as 50 percent of today’s jobs will go away, according to some estimates. Joined on stage by other high-profile members of the tech community, Swisher forced her panelists to defend Silicon Valley’s seeming incapability to take responsibility for the downstream effects of its innovation.

Salazar left Uber shortly after it launched and is now working on a startup called Pager, an on-demand marketplace for healthcare. In his mind, the new venture will make healthcare more accessible and affordable. Acknowledging that the platform he first created could put countless drivers in the taxi industry out of work, Salazar views his new venture as one that could potentially create work for more people than it would displace.

“I don’t think machine learning will replace jobs,” he said. “It will change industries, but no one is creating companies to get rid of humans. We need to take accountability.”

Salazar’s evolution from a solely code-focused CTO to an entrepreneur discussing things like artificial intelligence’s potential impact on education may mark a shift in how the tech community views its societal impact. Salazar’s fellow panelist Belinda Johnson, Airbnb’s chief business affairs and legal officer, discussed how the online marketplace has changed its thinking on the same topic. Initially, internet companies don’t want to think about regulatory or societal impact out of fear of stifling growth or innovation, she said. But once Airbnb realized how integral human interaction was to its guests' experiences, they started to pay attention.

In 2016, Airbnb support to local communities totaled the equivalent of roughly 730,000 in newly created jobs, she added.

“We are invested in making sure that we are not part of the problem,” she said. “We are very aligned that we are having a positive impact on cities.”

The issues that unicorn startups Uber and Airbnb are just now trying to grapple with are some that Devin Wenig’s company have been dealing with for quite some time. The president and CEO of eBay, Wenig thinks a lot about how the twenty-one-year-old e-commerce marketplace is changing jobs in retail. While eBay supports over a million small businesses that are exporting products on the platform and hiring people in the process, Wenig acknowledges the downstream effects of his platform. The U.S. retail market lost 60,000 jobs this February and March, marking the worst string of job losses in the sector since 2009.

The tech community must not only participate in discussions about what that means for the country, they have to “own them,” he said.

While Recode’s Swisher seems convinced that Silicon Valley is in a perennial state of adolescence that it just can’t seem to shake, her panelists appeared to think otherwise. Pointing to things like a growing discussion around the importance of retooling and reskilling the workforce for tech jobs in the future, Wenig said there is evidence that the tech community is starting to take responsibility for its actions.

It just might take some time for us all to see the same progress Wenig and his fellow panelists feel like they already do.

“As these startups are getting more powerful, they are growing up,” he said. “It may be a painful adolescence, but they are growing up.”

#MIGlobal.

Caroline Fairchild

Senior Editor, Technology and Startups at LinkedIn

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1705.02 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

https://futureoflife.org/background/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence/

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #664 - "m'aidez" - "Song to the Siren" - Musical Monday 1705.01

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #664 - "m'aidez" - "Song to the Siren" - Musical Monday - 1705.01

Hi Mom,

Watch the catching up happen very quickly today. I am postponing the rest of my Penguicon report or much of any original content to hammer out seven blogs in a morning simply because I don't like being behind BUT don't want to suspend the daily thing.

Just now, (and by now, I mean Monday 5/8, a week later) watching TV, seeing people talk about the very recent death of loved ones -- Patrick Beverly of the Houston Rockets whose father passed away before game four of round two of the playoffs, Isiah Thomas whose sister died just before the start of the playoffs, Kenny Mayne whose mother passed away last week -- all these deaths put into perspective what I am doing here on this blog.

At this point, the blog is just in honor of you, Mom. Occasionally, I mention the grief process, and I am still grieving -- I suspect I always will be -- but I have moved on. I am not wallowing, and so the blog is more of a dedication to you, Mom. It's a way to continue those conversations, but the pain and the strength of the grief is not quite the same as those who just lost their loved ones, or worse, my friend who lost his son back in December.

So, here's a mix without frills. This one does not have a separate playlist on You Tube, and I am not making a text list here.

Also, it's verminculated or the is vermiculate, depending on if  I feel verby or adjectivey.

There's some longer tracks (full albums actually) here. Enjoy.

MANTIS RADIO

(Also you should go drown in Gaika's SPAGHETTO EP right now.)

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• Do Not Let Your Kindness Be Weaponized Against You - by Dirty Knobs
• The Book of Wind - by AWARE
• The Speed of Darkness - by Ital Tek
• FARAI - KISSWELL - by FARAI
• Meditation Drum - by Jim Butler

 Marc Weidenbaum of the long-running and excellent Disquiet blog has launched a podcast called DISQUIETUDE.

Another podcast I want to point you at is NIGHT WHITE SKIES, generally about architecture's future, but very broad in its application of the remit - the episode with synthetic biologist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg was excellent.

from - Not Even Home Yet - OO 2 Apr 17

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• "Powerrrrz" - Velvawhip (Ruth is always great)
• "KK" - XSI
• "HESPERIAN GARDEN" - Phil Legard

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 666 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1705.01 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.