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My friend Jeff Hull: Butterball Drawings

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Medium Jack

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  Lina Khan, former FTC Chair AI acceleration has widened the gap between technology and policy. In my view, the first crack in that gap occurred with the 1996 dismantling of the Office of Technology Assessment in favor of corporate self-governance. The OTA used to be a go-to source for good sense -- what the world needs now. This and more is discussed in my Medium post, 'Heading AI Exceptionalism Off at the Pass: Khan at Atlanticpalooza.' And yes, it takes a look into that recent Atlantic podcast with Lina Khan, the tech billionaires' most dreaded regulator and critic. https://jackivaughan.medium.com/heading-ai-exceptionalism-off-at-the-pass-khan-at-atlanticpalooza-0ac0b914155c

Cryptomnesia

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  AI generated by Geminini When memory and reality cross-pollinate, you are experiencing a case of cryptomnesia (specifically, source amnesia). Cryptomnesia happens when a memory from your past is stored away without your conscious awareness of where it came from. Years later, that memory resurfaces, but because your brain forgot the original context (such as watching Fantastic Voyage at the golden rondelle - 3 years after theatrical release - introduced by you girl friend in a air stewardess uniform of lime green or seeing a pop-culture still in Life or staring at a Fillmore poster still as a teen), it feels entirely novel. It is a remarkably common phenomenon —like Raquel Welch trapped in a skintight wetsuit being attacked by microscopic antibodies inside a human body. Hollywood, 1966

No end to the mud sludger real estate buffoon side show yet

  President Trump declared on Truth Social this morning that 'The Moon is ours.' The implication is that the Moon is a sovereign territory of the United States of America, which is great news for Elon's lunar data center. pic.twitter.com/SzOIEfResh — Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) September 6, 2026