It's taking shape: Basic life may actually be quite common. Naked apes typing on keyboards on a digital network they built themselves not so much.

The rare earth and rare advanced intelligent life theories just got some extra weight.

The mushrooms are almost certainly not making an invisible aspect of reality visible.

That being said, this report is very interesting from an anthropological point of view: ancestor worship.

The report doesn't say whether the tiny people were recognized by the viewer (and I couldn't find any references), but this effect might have been the source of ancestor worship among the people of southeast Asia, where the mushroom grows.

Ancestor worship and animism (belief that the spirits of things hang around after death) might have its roots in this sort of psychedelic experience.

... in Europe is roughly 5 degrees centigrade above worst case scenarios projected for the year 2050 back in 2016. Germany will likely crack the 40 degree mark in multiple locations at the end of this week. Once again a new heat record. I personally expect this to only get more intense in the next years until perhaps the gulf stream completely shuts down.

These are cascading effects kicking in and ramping up. It wouldn't stop if the planet went net-zero carbon tomorrow. So we're pretty f*cked, as predicted ever since 1970. I'm curious how hard though. Guess we'll find out soon.

... in some parts, contains bucketloads of over-the-top excess trivia in others and has sections that are flat-out provably false. If the sections chiefs don't think an article is important, they delete it. That's why poets important to the development of a language and culture sometimes don't even have an entry, let alone more that 3 lines while some third-grade rapper that made some noise 10 years back has an essay with 10 000 words covering every detail of their private life.

I've seen flat-out bullshit on wikipedia more than once, I've corrected some things, roughly 30% get rolled back. If an area of expertise has asshole/dimwitt chief editors (or whatever they are called in wikipedia-speak) I often just give up and don't bother.

Wikipedia is a reflection of our times and what's important to us. And it should be viewed as such. With a pound of salt.

... won't be spared. I'm down 20k from my last salary and with AI my productivity has risen 5x. On to of that, the processes I was supposed to automate with code are getting replaced by AI themselves.

Prepare for incoming.

... to my AI metasubscription now. AI does what I ask it to do, I just review the changes and commit. It's like having a personal team of 10-20 experts sitting in a chat just ready to do my bidding. It's not sitting but it doesn't feel like that too often yet.

However it's quite staggering to watch am AI so your job an order of magnitude better than yourself. And that for a bunch of software stacks a human couldn't dream to comprehend. It's also sobering to watch the value-add chains I'm supposed to automate with code being voided entirely by AI. Not only is my job gone, the context with which it makes sense is also rapidly vanishing. You should see the look on the face of the lawyers I work with when the realize how AI does away with them too.

I'm very likely going to leave my current team. I'm in the process of leaving classic Web software development as a day job. ... You guys can't imagine how glad I am not having just software and the Web as my only field of experience and expertise.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

... for my taste but good for them.

... that is robust, efficient and that I can maintain and repair myself if the need be. No?
  Ok then, get lost. Thank you.

... is doomed.

... mental illness. Commercial "social" media is a thing that really shouldn't exist. Especially since they're just glorified versions of already existing protocols. Limiting access to these for youngsters is a good thing. The teenies won't listen of course, but that's beside the point. It's about being able to sue those corps into next wednesday if they choose to target minors. And that's a good thing.

... without (ultra)powerful ad- and trackblock setups, media buffers and stream-rippers. I currently use Brave and that works pretty well, but the amount of big guns I have to whip out in order not to be bombarded like some sorry-ass regular browser user has gotten ridiculous in the last five years. I wonder how further this can go on before a notable portion of us just get's fed up and redoes the Web entirely.

When I'm on a regular browser on some other machine and I see ad-trash or cookie popups clobbering the screen and my eyeballs, I usually just close the tab and do something else. I'm sick and tired of this garbage and it's simply not worth my time or cognitive load. Same with youtube ads.

Maybe it's time us nerds retreat to a new type of protocol and service, like some fully encrypted and signed WebFS thing where this garbage simply doesn't exist. It feels somewhat overdue to be honest.

A complete redo of lifestyle design and moving 'sitting at screen, doing computer stuff' to some side-task level cultural technique rather than my actual day job is due for me too. AI does 90%+ of coding now and way better than me and I'm just shooing it around and double-checking the diffs and commits in case something goes haywire. Which it doesn't happen that often compared to the output.

I'm clearing out my stuff and preparing to do more human things. Coding is still fun, but so is hiking, biking, travelling, social dancing, boardgaming, etc. We're at the brink of a post-scarcity economy. Might as well get on with it.