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Meaning in tarot reading is constructed through a complex and layered associational structure of intersecting meanings and through the reader’s associations with that structure. […] By using multiple co-existing layers of meaning and symbology and not insisting that one take precedence over the other, tarot asks the reader to choose from multiple modes of interpretation to construct a coherent meaning. Cat Manning, 2019, “Tarot as Procedural Storytelling” in “Procedural Storytelling in Game Design”
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Society: AI replacing 7.5% of US agency jobs. Deskilling on the job. Global tech supply chains. Augmenting Human Intellect (1962). Harvard new CS teacher is a bot. PwC take on employees skills, and WFE on the Future of jobs [PDF]. Bet on consciousness is lost. National Geographic last staff writers fired.
Tech: Embedding (earthquakes) resilience for people in vending machines. Invisible QR codes. After solar roads.. solar railways - really? Formula-E espionage. EU fight for replaceable batteries. US creates incentives for utilities to invest in cybersecurity. Irony of automation [PDF, 1983].
AI: Adobe, GenAI and copyright protection = Adobe subscription. GPT-SoftwareEngineer. ByteDance puts in 1bn$ in GPUs. Neural net tank detector - urban legend.
Random: Night mayors as new type of governance. Sound of healthy coral makes fish come back. Einstein tiles. Bill C-18 ends Facebook news in Canada. Tree-ring watermarks in images [PDF].
People: Creativity tools - oblique strategies, tarot- (arachnomancy?) and SCAMPER (put in use). Brains on drugs, social history.
DIY: ChatGPT, Mermaid and KGs. ChatGPT as a futurist.
Reading: Reinventing organizations. The Infinite game.