Sam the Sky Guy Reads Our Birth Charts (but not AI's because it is not alive)

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In this episode of Curious Cat, Jenn and Jesse chat with a mysterious, underground figure (as described by our mutual friend, Rachel White) "Sam the Sky Guy”— aka Sam aka Skyguy [https://open.substack.com/users/313055140-sam-aka-skyguy?utm_source=mentions]. He keeps his details locked down because he has a real world job that might mix with the woo like oil does water. He read Jesse and Jenn's birth charts, and we have questions! Especially how our charts relate to each other and to AI. But, folks. That's just the beginning to what is an instant classic. Topics we cover include: * Venus in Scorpio * Jesse's personal akashic record store * Sam's astrological gifts * Golden days at Booktrope and on socials * Hadron Collider * Krull and the word, 'craptastic' is coined * Polybius, that Portland, Oregon arcade game myth * Wayback Machine going, going, gone? * USB cable survivor tv show with tech bros * Old school vid/computer games including ZORK * Bubba Hotep * A memorial to Rowdy Roddy Piper complete with bagpipes (you're welcome) * and more *******Look for part two May 19th, Djinn and Tonic with Sam******* Links to our special guest: Polybius - the mysterious arcade video game, Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)] Want a reading from Sam "The Sky Guy" - then email him: skyguyreadings@gmail.com Sam "The Sky Guy" on Substack [https://substack.com/@skyguyreadings] Jenn Sam’s Etsy link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmptyNestMamaShop [https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmptyNestMamaShop] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1966220/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1966220/support] Support Curious Cat, an independent, human-made podcast! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1966220/support] Anxious about AI? Take two minutes to contact your local politician and ask them to tap the brakes on this technology. Still worried? Contact one of the orgs below and get involved. But for today, hug your kid, cook food and really breathe in deep as it simmers, walk in nature, brush a cat, donate to the food bank, brew a cup of tea, or draw a five-minute portrait of your dog. ***Is AI the Devil? on Substack!*** [https://curiouscatpodcast.substack.com] Hero Organizations: 80,000 Hours [https://80000hours.org/] Center for Humane Technologies [https://www.humanetech.com/] State of Surveillance, an organization that helps foster online privacy [https://stateofsurveillance.org] Buy Curious Cat Podcast a Coffee! [https://buymeacoffee.com/curiouscatpodcast]

GATE Program Reports, Accounts & Recollections

Episode Intro If you went to elementary school in the 70s, 80s or 90s, do you remember being tested by a stranger, or group of strangers? Ever get pulled out for a special class with others from different grades? Made to drink something pink? For whatever reason, right now many are remembering details of GATE programs. But who was behind these school programs? And what was their purpose? Intro to GATE Memories Let your mind drift back, back, back to those innocent days of youth. Picture the elementary school you attended. The teacher. Your friends. Recess. Did you play kickball? Or hopscotch? Or jump rope? Imagine your desk. Did it have that front load opening with a special well to hold your pencils? How about the pencil sharpener? Was it mounted to your teacher's desk at the front of the room? How did the classroom smell? Remember other details? Like Pirate paste that smelled like wintergreen. That ripe scent of bodies when the weather turned warm and all of your class was reassembled on the rug sitting criss-cross applesauce? I mention all this as precursor, because only you know what it felt like to live during those years. If you need to, pause this episode and write down your strongest recollections. I'm sure I missed lots. Like school lunches, did you bring your own in a sack or fancy lunchbox? Or did you turn in a paper ticket and receive a hot lunch in the cafeteria? What about the school library? Or gym? Any art projects you remember doing? And art supplies? What about those special classroom jobs? My teachers had a rotation that changed week to week. Write down what you like. Make sure your thorough because we are going deeper in a second. Did you ever have a stranger in a suit or more than one come into your classroom to observe? Did the teacher explain that they were from a college in the area? Did they bring with them an oversized case with latches and a handle, and inside was equipment that included knobs and dials? Were you sent one by one to the back of the room and told to put on large headphones that plugged into the case? Asked to identify tones? I said, inside the classroom, but I remember a trailer, one of those mobile trailers, or portables, that they needed when schools outgrew the number of neighborhood kids. Some people recall tanagrams, colorful shapes you'd manipulate to form larger shapes, like boats and such. Others remember cards, some say they were black and white, others remember colors with scenes on them. Slipped into envelopes, the tester encouraged children to visualize what was inside the envelope. Visualize. Visualize. Visualize. There were other tests, too. Weeks afterwards parents of a few kids might be notified that their child was going into the GATE program. GATE stands for Gifted and Talented Education, by the way. These programs were spun differently across the United States, but the letter home often used the word, "gifted" or "talented." Even the program itself had a different name depending on the school district. TAG, LEAP, Extended Learning Program, or in Richland, Washington - across from the Hanford Nuclear Reactor, they called their program ALPHA. These were pull-out programs that met weekly, sometimes with more than one grade combined together. And in our school, Mark Twain Elementary (because by that time I'd moved to Pasco) and those kids were bussed in from schools across the district and convened in a portable beside the basketball courts. What did they do in those GATE classes? Well, that's complicated. For many participants, the details remain hazy, at best. Some suffer memory loss about the entire program, while others in recent months, saw one of those black and white cards, or a photo of those clunky testing headphones, which rattled loose a few recollections. They remembered maps and strange activ Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1966220/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1966220/support] Support Curious Cat, an independent, human-made podcast! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1966220/support] Anxious about AI? Take two minutes to contact your local politician and ask them to tap the brakes on this technology. Still worried? Contact one of the orgs below and get involved. But for today, hug your kid, cook food and really breathe in deep as it simmers, walk in nature, brush a cat, donate to the food bank, brew a cup of tea, or draw a five-minute portrait of your dog. ***Is AI the Devil? on Substack!*** [https://curiouscatpodcast.substack.com] Hero Organizations: 80,000 Hours [https://80000hours.org/] Center for Humane Technologies [https://www.humanetech.com/] State of Surveillance, an organization that helps foster online privacy [https://stateofsurveillance.org] Buy Curious Cat Podcast a Coffee! [https://buymeacoffee.com/curiouscatpodcast]

22 de may de 20261 h 6 min

Sam the Sky Guy Reads Our Birth Charts (but not AI's because it is not alive)

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