May 18, 2025

Weekly Distractions for May 17, 2025

Wow

🧠 Links

• AI

  • Continuous Thought Machines

  • “Super” advanced that can invent new algorithms.

  Depressing

  • Is AI coming for your job?

  Animals

  • The Immortal Jellyfish is sorta immortal.

  • Or life forms anyways: this book looks interesting.

  Business

  • I am an old fogey unready for Buy Now Pay Later.

  Psychic Stuff

  • If you like pyramids, leylines, Stonehenge and stuff, you might like this.

📖 Currently Reading

• The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos

• A Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands: A Novel by Sarah Brooks

• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

• The Gate of The Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler