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• Rewrote my blog with Zine

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• Australia will run an overt command economy by 2040

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• 0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, links

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• Livestream with the legendary Steve Allen, Jan 21

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• A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961

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• I'm orgainizing Claude Code Anonymous - Berlin Edition! September 10

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• classifai-local-media-http — Serve attachment URLs over http on .local sites to avoid self-signed certificate issues that break image processing (for example when ClassifAI reads media via URL).

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• Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots

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• Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer

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• Beyond Trauma Retreat: A Guided Journey of Resilience, Hope and Growth

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Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

• Net Zero Will Be Harder Than You Think – And Easier. Part II: Easier

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• The Network State Conference

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