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A Darwinian Argument

“You must die.” The woman spoke dispassionately, her face blank.

7 min readDec 27, 2020

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A Darwinian Argument

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Right brain thought for the day

me: brief and credible assertion that gpt-4 can replace left-brain activity while right-brain roughly expresses intent and concepts in a…

1 min readMar 28, 2023

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What ChatGPT would Ask Itself

Or rather, what it did ask itself, and how it answered. Despite my concerns about AI viruses escaping, I can’t help being curious about…

7 min readMar 19, 2023

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Playing on an Organic Team

The web is littered with articles on empowering employees and bottom-up management. Much of it feels like lip service, when in the end…

10 min readFeb 22, 2022

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Playing on an Organic Team

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Conflicting Narratives: a conversation about Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, Noam Chomsky and a…

I run a loose organization of human rights advocates and volunteers, many of whom are young — high school or college — and from all over…

12 min readFeb 7, 2021

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Conflicting Narratives: a conversation about Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, Noam Chomsky and a…

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Time for Public Oversight of DHS

ICE and CBP are out of control. The evidence for this is overwhelming:

2 min readDec 29, 2020

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Time for Public Oversight of DHS

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Toadlets of Tucson

Our pool had turned into a swamp. On July 23, 2020, we’d finished draining, cleaning and painting it, and were just starting to fill it…

4 min readAug 30, 2020

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Toadlets of Tucson

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Towards Trust Networks and a Bullshit Meter

I wrote this piece several years ago but never posted it. Posting it now in case any of the ideas here are useful.

2 min readJan 28, 2020

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BlueSky RFC 2 — Architecture: technical and organizational

On December 11, 2019, @jack of Twitter posted a commitment to fund an open source team to decentralize social media. Lots of folks have…

9 min readJan 26, 2020

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BlueSky RFC 2 — Architecture: technical and organizational

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On Debate of Political Theories

Telling bad policy, bad political theories or models, from good is not hard — does it harm innocent people? Ah, you say, but at a certain…

1 min readNov 6, 2019

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Golda Velez

Golda Velez

Mom, Software Engineer, Tucsonan. Like connection, community, fun and algorithms for increasing opportunity. Also for identifying bullshit. @gvelez17

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