054: The Constant and the Variant (redux)

059: Wave of Change

We talk about Shawn’s patented microwave shortcut, first world problems™️, dumb uses of AI, the AI commencement speech “boo” trend, AI hallucinations, the AI “bubble” feeling (whether or not it’s actually a bubble), comparing this AI wave to the 2000 dotcom wave, the Trump firehose of s**t, finding solace and hope in things (Biosphere 2, radically zooming out, the overview effect, surrendering to the airplane), reframing the abortion debate, the gun control debate, political polarization and finding common ground, when your reality changes overnight, being intentional. Mentioned in this episode Powers of Ten [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0] (short film by the Eames Office Company) Pale Blue Dot [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g] (from Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” series) The Artemis II crew speaks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO2Jb82rnp0] following their successful mission Geshe Michael Roach TED Talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIkcBEelv0Y] (including his famous pen story) The Hurt Locker [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/] (2008 film) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

058: Journeys to Non-Belief

We talk about Shawn’s tenacious cold, the hantavirus outbreak, pandemic insanity, MiLo’s paintings, his upcoming show, and Bob Ross. Then we talk about for an hour about our current state of religious (non)belief and how we got here. Mentioned in this episode Emmanuel Swedenborg, and especially his writings in Divine Love and Wisdom, Divine Providence, and Apocalypse Revealed. Rupert Sheldrake [https://www.sheldrake.org/], and his hypothesis of “morphic resonance” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

057: Value in the Doing

We talk about generalists vs specialists, the communications degree, film school then and now, the process vs the product (redux), Disney layoffs, creativity as a temperament, retirement, doomscrolling (hantavirus, ebola, SARS, COVID, and related conspiracy thinking), the Artemis mission (and flat-earthers), Q-Anon, wrong number spam, scamming the scammers, tolerating uncertainty, first world problems. Mentioned in this episode Kicking and Screaming [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113537/] (1995 film) DEEP VZN project [https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-cancels-program-aimed-identifying-potential-pandemic-viruses] to identify potential pandemic viruses Q: Into the Storm [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14215442/] (2021 documentary series) Noel Rhodes / doctordub [https://www.youtube.com/@doctorodub] comedy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

056: Layers of Attention

We talk about our podcast as a family artifact, home tech challenges, class reunions, digitizing MiLo’s old film projects, our celebrity doppelgängers, Charlize Theron, synchronicity, George Gurdjieff’s attention exercises, Lebron James and other athletic savants, the magical thinking of children, learning languages, John Vervaeke’s “four ways of knowing,” IQ and the definition of intelligence, Asterix and Obelix, learning disparities in grade school, the Science of Reading, IEPs, California Proposition 13 (property tax reduction) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

055: Process vs. Product

We talk about mountains, trains, snow, the Donner Party, medical “diseases of opulence,” 80s teen movies, categories of 80s parents, finding jobs during a downturn, AI and the future of jobs, the market for craftsmanship and artisanal goods, hipsters, the process and the product, the Luddites, local vs. global capitalism, AI writing, AI sycophancy, AI psychosis, AI artists, brain hemisphere differences, Internal Family Systems, neurosymbolic AI as an precursor/alternative to LLMs, first world problems. Mentioned in this episode Portlandia: Wilson Artisanal Lightbulbs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLp9Mn-5rg] @Husk testing AI on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@huskistaken] and Sam Altman’s response [https://www.tiktok.com/@huskistaken/video/7624723977222556959] Artists using AI in creative ways: geddyruxpin [https://www.instagram.com/geddyruxpin/?hl=en], Moss Carpet [https://www.instagram.com/mosscarpetart?igsh=NHdmY21vYTZ4YzJq], Bennett Miller [https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2023/05/01/essay-a-wild-wild-wind-bennett-millers-ai-generated-art/] Iain McGilchrist’s work on brain hemisphere differences, and his books: The Master and His Emisary [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300245929/the-master-and-his-emissary/] and The Matter with Things [https://channelmcgilchrist.com/matter-with-things/]. Pixar’s Inside Out [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]