Paul Saffo
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Silicon Valley futurist, comments on human absurdities here, post my serious work elsewhere.
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Why I detest sites bleating about adblockers - here are all the spies peering at me on white-listed SFgate:
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There are more bullet trains in this picture (of the station in Wuhan China) than there are bullet trains in the entire United States!
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. there is no cure for curiosity.
-Dorothy Parker
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Stuck in rush hr traffic bet a geo-mapping truck and a google robo-car - just another day in Silicon Valley...
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In 1990, the size of the US software industry was $3.2 billion -- the same size as the gourmet popcorn industry in that same year..
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Forget crop circles - aliens have left flying saucer footprints all over the parks in San Francisco -- and the locals are colonizing them!
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"lettuce is not food. It’s decorated water."
One problem seldom mentioned around vertical farm schemes: lettuce is not food. It’s decorated water.
(Wheat, corn, soybeans are food—and not vertical farm candidates.)
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Destroying the desert to build electric cars is a solution far worse than the problem it is supposed to solve.
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This just arrived - have a feeling I am gonna stay up late tonight reading it!
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UC Berkeley cop paws thru wallet of unlicensed street vendor, takes his money... makes me feel so much safer...
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Fuji-san, perfectly captured by my brilliant photojournalist friend, Kohira Naonori:
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Remember everything you said you wouldn't do until Hell froze over? Well, guess what...
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British Pathe puts its entire film archive (85k videos) on YouTube - extraordinary archive!
http://t.co/mtQxTwY3Uc
(thanks
@Laurenweinstein
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Mitch McConnell, the man holding us hostage to Trump's shutdown, answers to a mere 4.5 million Kentuckians, a state whose GDP is a paltry $154 billion. That's less than half the SF Bay Area's population, and a GDP smaller than San Mateo, the 2nd smallest county in California!
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Latest milestone on Stanford's road to full decarbonization:
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A couple in a Tesla struck and mortally injured this deer late today on Hwy 1. I stopped it from stumbling into traffic, and sat with it and did my best to comfort it until it passed away, because no creature should ever die alone, much less die alone on the side of a highway.
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Hands down the craziest earthquake video I've ever seen...
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Do you miss your office cubicle? Panasonic will sell you one specially designed for your living room (only $900!):
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@timblor
And for anyone visiting, it is always a nice gesture to purchase a bottle of their wine. They can feel a bit overrun by folks focused only on the fault offset, so showing appreciation for their craft helps keep seismically obsessed visitors welcome! (pic from pre-fixup in 2019!)
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Helen Gurley Brown's secret to success: "You get up each day and do the worst stuff first." (said at Stanford 7/29/99)
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Gas line Silicon Valley style: Tesla owners lined-up in Mountain View, waiting to suck some electrons...
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The very first, original cellphone circa 1984, on my desk tonight - need to lift weights to hold this thing...
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Alabama Senator Tuberville returning home to Alabama, um, make that Florida where he actually lives... (He has no home at all in Alabama)
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Quote of the Day:
"I miss when it was just a pandemic and depression..."
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Looks like we might be heading past 30 inches in the Bay Area. But... this could be very bad news for the Sierra snowpack if it falls as hi elevation rain...
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2.9 million votes: that's larger than the populations of 15 states incl Nebraska, N/S Dakota, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Alaska
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This latest Curiosity Rover image of a natural outcrop on Mars is going to drive the tin foil hat crowd crazy...
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20+ years ago, I observed that there was a 50% chance that the US would not exist as a nation by mid-century, and have been ridiculed many times since for the forecast.
I now believe that breakup is all but inevitable, and coming far sooner than 2050.
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Can't walk in Berkeley without tripping over a delivery 'bot... saw three on one block near UC Stadium, not including this sad little 'bot tangled up in a trash bag and left abandoned at the curb... it probably misses its mom...
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How bad is the traffic in the SF Bay Area? Bad enough for this to be a business...
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@ashasquasha
I am in search & rescue and your story is a case study in how to do things right! Please write it up on Facebook so it can be shared there with others in SAR!
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@MineralCup
99.9999% of the folks voting for Quetzalcoatlite have never even seen an actual specimen of the mineral. How can they possibly vote for a mineral they can't even prove actually exists! Don't be suckered! Vote for serpentine!
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I knew it... GPS rots your brain!
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A delightful example of the power of Moore's Law!
I will let out a bit of a secret.
I have been running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero for ~5 years.
About 7 times faster System/370.
Millions of lines of COBOL JCLs running flawless on a battery.
Tested an entire bank’s mainframe COBOL on it.
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Stanford researchers design underwater solar cells - artificial photosynthesis could turn greenhouse gases into fuel
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HUGE thanks to the San Andreas Fault for knocking down this monstrosity!
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Is there a coming
#climateRevolution
- as in a real revolution that shakes global society to its core?
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It must be very strange to have a leader who is deeply qualified, actually understands the science and is single-mindedly focused on doing what's best for her country and its citizens.
''Now we have to go back to the beginning. We have to trace every single case.''
Angela Merkel explains why contact tracing is critical to control the
#coronavirus
epidemic in Germany.
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Sign of the times in Silicon Valley: unemployed robots hanging out on street corners, smoking cigarettes and pitching passers-by for freelance work...
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Never a dull moment when there is a pack of samoyeds in the house!
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Turn your iPhone into a personal thermal imager:
http://t.co/UH2Q9mg6t0
perfect for nerds and hazard-obsessed preppers!
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Massive post-quake looting underway in Manhattan! (Wall St traders allowed back into their offices)
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A treasured memento, given to me by a mentor many decades ago. He was given it when he started his work at the height of the Cold War, so it is probably 70 years old. I still occasionally use it! 😅
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Rush hour in Silicon Valley... passing one unmarked robotic car after another on my way home... more robotic cars than Uber drivers...
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A giant has fallen. John's vast accomplishment aside, his quiet leadership and devotion to service stands in stark contrast to the vulgar brats who presume to lead Silicon Valley today.
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I can think of no higher use for Jeff Bezo's wealth than to help advance humanity as a spacefaring civilization.
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If pro is the opposite of con, then the opposite of progress must be Congress. - Mark Twain
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Ideologies that define Freedom as "independence" rather than "interdependence" are beginning to look like a seriously lethal individual and group maladaptation.
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A mighty tree has fallen in the digital forest.
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It is 98 degrees here in San Francisco, and Russian consulate officers are keeping warm burning documents in their fireplace...
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That's Half dome in the center of the photo - 120 miles away!
One of those amazing days at Lick Observatory where you can see across the whole San Joaquin Valley.
Photo courtesy of
@Elinor42
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"the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun research center" (why gun deaths in California have fallen by 30% while the US death rate has risen)
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This is one story I never guessed that I would read: AIs communicating to chess cheats via, um, vibrating beads! (h/t to Lauren for the pointer)
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Another close friend of ours just died from COVID (and no, no pre-existing conditions). Social distancing is the only thing keeping me from punching out the next virus denier I encounter.
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Rescued this little one ( a juvenile rough shouldered hawk) at the
#CZULightningComplexFire
today. The Humane Society tech says it will fully recover!
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Iran's Grand Ayatollah issues fatwa against hi-speed Internet:
http://t.co/EuGhryE5xW
(he must own Comcast stock)
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Rome police bust huge underground pot farm hidden in Mussolini-era tunnel right under the Italian Central bank!
http://t.co/2UjFcBkX
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The South has its Waffle House index. Out here in Silicon Valley our definition of a disaster is when flooding forces the local Apple store to close...
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Hey folks, stop the self-absorbed stressing about air quality in the Bay Area. A few days of air pollution is nothing at all when folks to the north have lost homes and loved ones! Focus on how fortunate you are and how you can help those who who have lost so much!
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Another 1965 aerophoto view of the Peartree slide area. Not an obvious slide risk area, so perhaps is the result of drainage/engineered fill failure?
#RollingHillsEstates
#PeartreeLane
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"So, my advice to Mr. Trump on facing powerful women like these? Tweet all you like, but you might want to get out of the way." (Kara Swisher at her very best!)
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I wonder why Russia's vaunted Era crypto comms system is having problems...
In the call, you hear the Ukraine-based FSB officer ask his boss if he can talk via the secure Era system. The boss says Era is not working.
Era is a super expensive cryptophone system that
@mod_russia
introduced in 2021 with great fanfare. It guaranteed work "in all conditions"
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@stewartbrand
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute. - G B Shaw
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