Bbenzon
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Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7846 )
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Breakfast Crepe at Turning Point
Posted on 23 June 2026
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Inside ChatGPT, Keeping the Lights on While Bailing out the Hold
Back in 2018 Lenny Bogdonoff was in the first cohort of Emergent Ventures recipients, it was for a project after my own heart, using machine learning to create ... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Five Flowers in Hoboken
Posted on 22 June 2026
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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NYTimes Opinion: Don't Stress About AI; Don't Bring Back the Tests; A New...
Three from The New York Times, June 22, 2026. Robert J. Shiller, We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. Like many others, I believe A.I. could lower employment. Read more
Posted on 22 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Kisangani Commemorative Stamps
Click on an image to enlarge it. Read more
Posted on 22 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Brain Area Specialized for Visual Recognition of Words
No child is born able to read. The brain ships with no reading region at all. It builds one, and the construction runs on the exact effort AI removes.Learning t... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Killer Joe, Arranged by Quincy Jones
YouTube Page: Here is the quintessentially cool arrangement of “Killer Joe” by Quincy Jones. Enjoy my Remix/Remaster of this 1969 jazz classic. Read more
Posted on 22 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hoboken Greenery
Posted on 21 June 2026
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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New Book Project :Language, Memory, and Mind: A Supplement to The Computer and...
As you may know, I’ve been working on a book project, Play: How to Stay Human in the A.I. Revolution. For some reason I’ve been unable to finish the proposal,... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Creating Imaginary Bank Notes with ChatGPT: AI as Cultural Technology and...
At the beginning of this week I published an article at 3 Quarks Daily, Tyler Cowen is the Tycho Brahe of Economics. I then decided to turn it into a PDF that... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Keeping AI Slop out of the Kitchen
Katie Robertson, Visuals by Bob Miller, The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop, NYTimes, June 20, 2026. As the smell of sizzling bacon wafted... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Yesterday's Breakfast Adventure
Posted on 20 June 2026
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Conversations with Tyler: A Special Conversation with Nicholas Copernicus, Adam...
I was feeling impish this morning, so I gave Claude 4.6 Sonnet (Medium) the following prompt: Back in the 20th century Steve Allen did a series of TV shows... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Goin' to the Movies
Posted on 19 June 2026
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Tyler Cowen, Tycho Brahe & Rank Shift @3QD
I’ve got a new paper at 3 Quarks Daily: Tyler Cowen is the Tycho Brahe of Economics It came about as a side effect of my writing and thinking about Cowen’s new... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Orange, Yellow, Yellow, Orange, Red
Posted on 18 June 2026
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The World's First Trillionaire Racist [Musk]
Toby Buckle, Greg Sargent, Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response, The New Republic, June 17, 2026. Read more
Posted on 18 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Disclosure Day [Media Notes 184]
Meh. I made it through. I wasn’t hard, except for the seat. I couple of years ago my local theater converted to those recliner seats. I wish they hadn’t. Read more
Posted on 17 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hoboken Streets
Posted on 17 June 2026
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Clueless Thy Name is Zuckerberg
Victor Tangermann, Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues, Yahoo!Finance, June 16, 2026.... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2026 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
