AI is an environmental sociological and technological existential threat. It's also interesting that most of the AI industry is run by people who are fans of an Italian fascist from the 1930s.

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@Carl Munson CB's as we called. It was an amazing space. I remember our first audition there. We really sucked! But Hilly Crystal, the owner, took a liking to us for some reason. By the time the band broke up when my brother got sick with AIDS, he had us opening for big bands on Saturday nights. We got to open for Richard Hell and the Voidoids, a really big punk band at the time who had one of the greatest, most unsung guitarists in rock history, Robert Quine. I stood about 3 feet in front of him for the entire set with my jaw on the floor, and my eyes riveted to his hands and guitar neck. I had some amazing times in that place! And by the time this gig was recorded, I must say that we were tighter than I ever remembered us being. Finding this recording made me reevaluate my entire time in that band. It made me realize that I wrote more of the songs that I thought, that I played more rhythm guitar than I thought. That my brother and I did some really fun intertwined guitar lines that I had completely forgotten about. We actually also did a lot of super wierd experimental stuff, but not during that particular gig.

I have read so much about Celtic DNA here in Northern Portugal, but I don't see a lot of it. I did see a red haired woman with freckles. But most of the people I see up here are dark haired and dark eyed. Genetics are always an absolutely fascinating subject! Thanks for posting this.

My father wrote a lot of books on archaeology and anthropology and physical anthropology was my major in college. One of the things my father said that I always found interesting is that he called the Basques "modern Cro-magnon". In one sense we are all exactly that, but he was referring to this genetic cul-de-sac and the fact that their language is not connected to any other.