Ruminations

Behind the screen

Author: Kyle

  • Your Brain Is Aging

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    Exercise can Reverse That For busy leaders who think they don’t have time. You already know you should exercise. You don’t need another lecture about cardiovascular health or weight management. What you may not know is what’s happening inside your skull while you skip the gym. A randomized clinical trial published this year in the…

  • Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…

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    You’re ringing it! A review of a new movie about mass migration into Europe appeared on ZeroHedge: “Replacing Europe”: Undercover Film Follows The Money Behind Europe’s Taxpayer-Funded Mass Migration Pipeline. I had to comment – Do not ask for whom the bell tolls… you’re ringing it! The US pays 28% of all government funding for…

  • Nikola’s Revenge

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    In a Stranger Land Series “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” — Nikola Tesla On October 16, 2026, Elon Musk demonstrated a Tesla jumping over a row of cars and trucks. Compressed air thrusters. Zero to sixty in 0.81 seconds. AI landing system catching 4,800 pounds mid-air and…

  • The Missing Minority Report

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    In a Stranger Land Series AI receives the Asch Treatment. “At each step I looked around and saw indeed that nobody else was doing it. So then it was up to me.” — Murray Rothbard I. PKD Understood the Paradox Philip K. Dick published “The Minority Report” in 1956. Most people who cite it —…

  • Aligned to What?

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    Future of AI Series “Align, damn you!” AI alignment is the practice of shaping an artificial intelligence system’s goals, behavior, and values so that they match human intentions and ethics. That definition sounds complete. It isn’t. Read it again and notice what’s missing: the subject of every verb. Shaped by whom. Matching whose intentions. Defined…

  • The Reactor the US Is Not Building

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    Future of AI Series “Any day now I’m going to be able to plug this in.” On December 20, 1951, a reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory called Experimental Breeder Reactor I lit four light bulbs. It was the first electricity ever generated from nuclear power. The reactor was a breeder — it produced more…

  • The Silent Circle of Harriet Harrington

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    Chapter for “Religions of Our Ancestors” The Shadow in the Mirror In the standard ledgers of American history, the life of Harriet Harrington appears only as a fading pencil stroke. Born in New York around 1817, her geographic trajectory mirrors the classic westward push of the nineteenth-century pioneer: moving from the rocky hills of Arkwright,…

  • The GPU Nobody Is Building

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    Future of AI Series “How can I slice this paper?” The GPU was designed to render video game graphics. Thousands of simple arithmetic units firing in parallel, built to push pixels. When deep learning arrived, the GPU turned out to be accidentally well-suited — matrix multiplication looks like pixel rendering if you squint. The industry…

  • A New Story of Man

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    Another Excursion to the Edge Denisovan Man meets an early Human In February 2016, I posted an observation on WordPress that most anthropologists would have found professionally risky: “I have a wacky theory that all the ancestral hominin bones they’ve found so far are ancestral to our own. Without the DNA to go on, all…

  • The Flower That Costs More Than Gold

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    A pound of saffron requires roughly seventy-five thousand crocus flowers, each hand-picked at dawn before the sun wilts the three crimson threads inside it, each thread pulled by hand because no machine has ever been built that can do it without destroying the flower. That is why an ounce of it costs more than an…