Naive painting of William Penn and Quaker settlers meeting Lenape leaders beneath a large elm by a river, with ships and a town in the distance
Edward Hicks, Penn's Treaty with the Indians, c. 1840–1844 · public domain, via the National Gallery of Art and Wikimedia Commons

I've got a malingering head cold. Managed to progress on some civic tech projects I've been working on, and Joann and I road tripped to Philly to see a Geese show.

You Can See Everything cover
You Can See Everything
Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim

I like the irony under the title—that despite seeing everything, you'll still understand nothing and experience no resolution. That's life. Still felt anticlimactic though.

One of my favorite tech journalists, on the psychedelic alchemy of chip fabrication.

Explorations of how to align and adapt society to advanced AI. I'm helping put this on! Come by and RSVP, I'll be moderating a session.

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