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Nicholas Poulios's avatar

spacetime as a grid to the seen universe - awesome video CY

https://aeon.co/videos/imagining-spacetime-as-a-visible-grid-is-an-extraordinary-journey-into-the-unseen

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Camellia Yang's avatar

facinating!

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Disturbing CY .The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t.

https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture

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Camellia Yang's avatar

glad I have more than 20 notebooks that recorded my life stories and learnings as well haha

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Nicholas Poulios's avatar

The best decision you ever made CY. Your journals are very valuable. It is a rich source of material for the creation of new work or to re-vision ideas. Also, handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing, study shows

https://www.psypost.org/handwriting-activates-broader-brain-networks-than-typing-study-shows/?ref=refind

I recently bought from China a SSD 1 TB potable storage drive the size of a matchbox that can fit in your pocket or purse. SSD drives have no moving parts like hard disks so less failure rates. It cost me $11 AUD, so I bought 3 to give some writing to friends. No excuse to loose data now.

Don't loose those journals CY.

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Nicholas Poulios's avatar

Another gem CY, so you have introduced another character -- we are lucky to have a choice now.

The story is like dazzling Lapis lazuli that catches the mind's eye and has caught me by surprise as I anticipated another episode of Wei.

To choose between Wei or Miya, I would choose Wei and ask her to attend a Chinese tea ceremony. {Of course I adore her and would be spellbound listening her electromagnetic cascading narratives }

Miya, though seems to evolving into an AI AGENT by the questions she asks! -- she is moving beyond human , the story sparkles with intelligence and humble humor and I loved the last sentence which made me laugh. Maybe Miya wants to stay an imperfect human after all.

You never told us about your misplaced cute comb a while back. Did you find it ?

Well recently I entered a poetry contest and submitted a 75 line poem called: Lament For A Comb.

Inspired by your comb reflections but not related to your drama, it is about a grand daughter visiting her Grandma who always talks about an extinct Ecotopia; the good old days.

Many hundreds enter the competition so it will be difficult to win, but rather than be a wallflower; shy, I submitted will know the outcome in March 2025 if I win a prize. I have created something out of nothing and that is all that matters - ,y poem did not exits before.

Perhaps Miya can ask the AI Agent, how do you create something out of nothing ? LOL

I read Lawrence M. Krauss's book a while ago: It explores the idea that the universe could have arisen from nothing.

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Camellia Yang's avatar

Yes I found it! Hahhaha thanks for remembering that! Good luck with the poem competition!

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Nicholas Poulios's avatar

Thanks CY

And in the meantime, I plan to do this for 2025, just to shake things up a little haha

https://hulry.com/datsuzoku/?utm_source=smartrdaily&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-art-of-recharging-well-with-datsuzoku

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Simon Young's avatar

This is superb. Thanks Camellia.

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Camellia Yang's avatar

Any sci-fi stories or books you'd like to recommend? I almost run out of good ones to read!

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Simon Young's avatar

I'm a philistine, woefully undereducated in sci-fi writing. However on TV I am loving The Silo, Foundation, Dune (the movie more than the TV show) and I am foaming at the mouth about the return of Severance in January.

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