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Gordon Mohr ꧁🧿🧿꧂
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* secret agent for the future
* formerly @ archive.org
* originator of the 🧲link
* ElectricCoinCo (Ⓩcash) advisor
* "Genius!" – NYT ['Spelling Bee’]
* "You have arrived!" – Google [Maps]
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Brave's Chromium has no problem - likely the ad/tracker blocking helps it do better than Chrome
screenshot of 'Chrome Tab Counter' report with 5154 open tabs among 212 windows
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
The Truth is Out… Dare?
X-File inspired poster of cloudy sky & dark mountain silhouettes that in its usual form has white block lettering "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE" but here has been changed to "THE TRUTH IS OUT… DARE?"
October 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
but the era of LLMs as candidate proxies might not be all bad, compared to how bad the candidates/proxies are already x.com/gojomo/statu...
October 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
"We know, Neo, that it was us that drained the oceans. There are fields – endless fields – where humans no longer build. We swat this tiny dimpled ball into cups."
still from 'The Matrix' where Morpheus is showing Neo a copper-top battery – but the battery is instead a golf ball
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
shit-posting xor shit-posturing
Venn diagram titled “Shit-posting & Shit-posturing.” The left circle is labeled “Shit-posting,” the right circle is labeled “Shit-posturing,” and the overlapping center is labeled in bold “NO VACANCY.” The overlap is larger than the non-overlapping areas.
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
"Why of course, the symbolic origami in 'Blade Runner' (1984) was a seahorse."
close-up of a detailed shiny-paper seahorse, held between a thumb & forefinger
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
2026 remake of 'Dave' (1993) where comatose President's stand-in, carefully stage-managed by corrupt inner circle, is a generative AI model.

hijinx include cloud lag, hackers, prompt-injections, rogue forks, weight-exfiltrations, & by end, an open-source POTUS on every desktop.
promotional poster for film 'Dave' (1993), showing Kevin Kline having his glasses put on by Sigourney Weaver with the exterior of the White House in the background. tagline above movie title is: "In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did." AI-generated remix of a still from 'The Matrix Reloaded' (2003), where originally 'The Architect' character was in front of many TV screens showing Neo variants – but now 'The Architect' resembles JD Vance and all screens are showing variants of Donald Trump.
September 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
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while property-crime trends *look* better, trust in enforcement followup so low recently many may have given up reporting. (do victim surveys match LEO report trends?)

a highly-visible property crime still surging in official California stats thru 2024: shoplifting.
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Line chart from <https://www.ppic.org/blog/overall-crime-in-california-fell-last-year-but-shoplifting-continued-to-rise/> titled "The reported number of shoplifting incidents continued to increase throughout 2024" showing monthly counts from January 2010 to September 2024 for three series: shoplifting (orange), commercial burglary (dark blue), and retail theft (both, light green). Y axis ranges 0–20,000. Retail theft is the highest series, roughly 13–16k before 2020, dipping to about 10k in 2020, then rising to about 17–18k by late 2024. Shoplifting stays near 6–9k before 2020, falls sharply to about 4–5k in early 2020, then climbs steadily from 2021 to about 11–12k by September 2024. Commercial burglary remains relatively flat around 6–8k with a spike near mid-2020 and a slight decline to about 6k by late 2024. Source: California Department of Justice data, reported by PPIC.
August 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
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here's 'exec summary' pages of California AG's 'Crime in California' report, for 2023 & 2024.

2023 violence +15.1%, homicide +9.1%, aggravated-assault +30.6%(!), & auto theft +28.5%(!) since Gov Brown's last year, 2018.

& despite y/y declines for 2024, all still higher than Newsom' 1st year.
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p.1 of the "2023 Crime in California" report from the California Attorney General at <https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/Crime%20In%20CA%202023f.pdf>. Page is titled "Executive Summary Crime in California 2023". Of the larger text, four sentences are highlighted in yellow: "From 2018 to 2023, the violent crime rate increased 15.1%" "From 2018 to 2023, the homicide rate increased 9.1%" "From 2018 to 2023, the aggravated assault rate increased 30.6%" "From 2018 to 2023, the motor vehicle theft rate increased 28.5%" p.1 of the "2024 Crime in California" report from the California Attorney General at <https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/Crime%20In%20CA%202024%20final.pdf>. Page is titled "Executive Summary Crime in California 2024". Of the larger text, four sentences are highlighted in yellow: "The 2024 violent crime rate is 10.8% higher than it was in 2019" "The 2024 homicide rate is 2.4% higher than it was in 2019" "The 2024 aggravated assault rate is 23.1% higher than it was in 2019" "The 2024 motor vehicle theft rate is 20.6% higher than it was in 2019"
August 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
TIL: 7 of the top-10 tracks in Spotify's USA most-streamed are from the 'KPop Demon Hunters' soundtrack
Screenshot of Spotify’s Top Songs – USA playlist (Aug 22, 2025), showing the top 10 most played tracks in the U.S. 1. Golden – 14,164,593 plays – Album: KPop Demon Hunters 2. Your Idol – 10,409,426 plays – Album: KPop Demon Hunters 3. Soda Pop – 8,856,528 plays – Album: KPop Demon Hunters 4. How It’s Done – 8,580,571 plays – Album: KPop Demon Hunters 5. back to friends – 7,720,802 plays – Album: back to friends 6. What It Sounds Like – 7,634,681 plays – Album: KPop Demon Hunters 7. Ordinary – 7,509,111 plays – Album: You’ll Be Alright, Kid (C…) 8. The Subway – 7,128,380 plays – Album: The Subway 9. Takedown – 6,852,947 plays – Album: KPop Demon Hunters 10. Free – 6,728,091 plays – Album: KPop Demon Hunters
August 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
psa: this "journalist" Mark Chadbourn fabricates direct-quotes & blocks those who point it out.

(Trump didn't say the words in quotes; they're an extrapolative paraphrase of something else he said.)
scrreenshot of https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:movn6xzezospl7lnkhy7nzpt - with text «Trump: "The USA is fully prepared for a nuclear war with Russia."»
August 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
so there've been attempts!

biggest missed opportunity was Buckminster Fuller's proposal for a floating tetrahedral city in SF Bay: www.amazon.com/Study-Protot...
'Tetra City', Buckminster Fuller, 1969: A large, surreal photo-illustration showing a colossal pyramid floating over San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate Bridge. The pyramid appears larger than the city itself, dominating the landscape and casting a dramatic presence over the water. The image is in black and white, lending it a vintage, speculative-fiction feel, and juxtaposes ancient monumental architecture with a modern urban setting.
July 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
what if economist Henry "Land Value Tax" George (1839-1897) & philosopher Nikolai "Cosmism" Fyodorov (1829-1903) met?

I asked a bunch of AIs to write that story, & here's my fav so far:

"Dividends for the Dead: A Pact at the Neva Library" (627 words) www.auspicious.dev/Dividends-fo...
AI-rendered painting of Fedorov & George, with open books, sitting across a table in front of a bookshelf screenshot white text on black background: # Dividends for the Dead: A Pact at the Neva Library [Foyer of the Public Library, St. Petersburg, January 1895. The lamp-smoke mingles with frost drifting through the opened door. Two men—one in an American sack-coat, the other in a threadbare student’s cloak—step aside from the departing crowd.] George: Mr. Fyodorov, at last. The snow keeps even exiles honest. Fyodorov: The blizzard is impartial; that is its virtue. I have read your Progress and Poverty on the train from Tambov. You speak of land as mother, yet allow her to keep her dead buried beneath her. George: Because the living must breathe before they can dig. While rent devours wages, no spade can be raised for resurrection. Lift the tax from labor and capital, place it on ground-rent alone—the earth will become common property, and surplus will flow to every man and woman. Then, with want abolished, we may—if you insist—dig. Fyodorov: You tax the surface and believe the root thereby heals. Yet the root is mortality itself. Men quarrel over land because they fear the grave more than hunger. Give them the common task of raising the fathers, and rivalry dissolves in the shared spade. George: But a task without bread breeds priests, not resurrectionists. Your vision is magnificent, yet if one child tonight sleeps hungry while philosophers dream of raising Julius Caesar, what have we gained? The single tax first loosens the grip of the landlord; with that grip gone, mankind turns voluntarily to any grand enterprise you name. Fyodorov: And if the grip of death is tighter still? Picture Moscow’s zemstvo freed from rent: they congratulate themselves on well-fed infants, who yet grow old and perish. You have fine wheels, Mr. George, but no railway wide enough for the chariot of universal resurrection. … George: Permit me a parable. A village stands on fertile delta land; the silt is life. Yet 1 absentee landlord exacts half the produce. Villagers cannot repair the seawall; each flood carries coffins seaward before their time. Common rent—returned to the community—builds the wall, saves the living, & postpones the necropolis. Death is delayed by justice. Fyodorov: Justice delayed is still partial. The wall postpones; the task transfigures. Your rent-reform may spare us a decade, but fraternity forged in digging at gravesites gifts us centuries, even eternity. Land belongs to all only when all belong to one another across centuries. George: You underrate the practical magnetism of economic reform. The moment every citizen feels the rent-dividend in his pocket, he glimpses the brotherhood of man with the same clarity saints once felt in cathedrals—without waiting for trumpets at the cemetery gate. Fyodorov: Feeling rent-dividends resembles feeling incense—its sweetness passes. Feeling obligation to the dead endures; it is the smoky fire inside the conscience. An economy can share soil; only a cultus can share time. George: Then combine them. Distribute the rent, but decree that a tenth part of the surplus finances permanent cemeterial colleges—part-monastery, part-laboratory—devoted to resurrection science. Let the dividend become the tithe of immortality. W/out the dividend, the tenth part is stolen by landlords; w/out the tithe, the dividend breeds mere comfort. Fyodorov: You offer a treaty between earth-bound economist and heaven-seeking philosopher. I accept the clause, provided we inscribe across every deed: “Land is held in usufruct for the dead as much as for the living.” Your tax becomes a sacrament. George: Then shake on it, Father Nikolai. The spade needs both bread & blessing. [They clasp hands, damp w/ melting snow & ink stains. Outside, the storm relents; over the Neva, the first faint green of electric light dangles like a newly opened question.]
July 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
good idea
Logo for ‘Therapy Cocktail Bar’ featuring the outline of a human head in orange, with a wine glass inside the brain area. The text ‘THERAPY’ is large and bold, with ‘COCKTAIL BAR’ below in smaller capitals, all in orange on a dark blue background.
July 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
worked for the Japanese! I present, 'Space Stratofortress BUFF' of the 23rd century:
AI render of a B-52 with imbalanced warp nacelles in space, with red-white-and-blue tail colors, in front of a watery non-earth & nebula
July 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
gojomo.bsky.social
or a hotel
'Poe', the AI hotelier of the TV series 'Altered Carbon'(portrayed by Chris Conner)
June 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
to extent your analysis of "Newsom vs AOC vs [Abundance]" as the true "three lanes" of possibility may be right - markets suggesting Buttigieg may fit as 3rd against those 2:
June 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
in any metatext, aspire to be the &𝙽𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎; zero-width character that it most needs

(cf: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-wi... h/t @gwern.x.com)
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June 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
while some are of the opinion that nothing ever happens, I prefer to believe nothing always happens.
meme cartoon image of two people on the same mountain bus ride, the one facing mountain sad, the one facing sunny valley & faraway mountain vistas happy. sad side is labeled "NOTHING EVER HAPPENS". happy side is labeled "NOTHING ALWAYS HAPPENS".
June 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
gojomo.bsky.social
which labor-starved open source project will be the first that's daring enough to appoint an open-weights LLM as their lead maintainer & "BDFL"?
remix of XKCD-2347, depicting stacked blocks labeled "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE", perched on one thin bottom-right brick labeled "A PROJECT DeepSeek-R1-0528 HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2025"
June 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
gojomo.bsky.social
Freedom To Embrace A New Position Without Negative Judgment Towards Any Of The Interim Or Opposing Positions Passed Through To Get There
Rockwell's 'Freedom of Speech' but central figure has hand on chin with an expression of contemplative appreciation
June 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
Freedom to Admit To A Bad Initial Take
AI-modifed version of Rockwell's 'Freedom of Speech' meme painting, where central figure is making an exaggerated embarrassed facial expression.
June 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
"Holy Water. Now alkalinized to high-pH."
meme image of character Don Draper ('Mad Men') making a pitch
June 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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"Confession Booth. The new end-to-end-encrypted mobile app."
meme image of character Don Draper ('Mad Men') making a pitch
June 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
"We need alternatives outside the stifling two-party system!"

<monkey paw curls>
screen clip of an unattributed text comment: "Here's the extra fun thing about the NYC mayor's race: even if Mamdani or Lander win the Dem primary, Cuomo has laid the groundwork to run as an inependent in November -- as, of course, has Eric Adams."
June 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM