I was in the Great Redwood Forest, listening to and participating in a discussion on the "Great Work" and its relationship to Silicon Valley.

Here are my thoughts on the book Cute Accelerationism by Amy Ireland and Maya B Kronic, which I am reading with some friends this summer of 2024.

At approximately 3:30 today, there was a total solar eclipse in upstate New York, where I live. Fordham University, where I sometimes teach, emailed about safety precautions during the eclipse. This email mentioned that the earliest record of an eclipse was from around 1223 BC in Ugarit, Syria. The email then cheekily mentions that Ugrait collapsed a few days later, but this is unlikely for New York City, where Fordham is located.