Erik Trautman

My google docs are littered with delightful, random emoji treasures as I use them to copy-paste into fields of other apps that haven't yet enabled emoji shortcuts. Like this one ♥️

Hire clowns, get a circus.

Fun fact: your tank of gasoline produces roughly your weight in CO2 when burned.

Willing to bet there's a correlation between larger tanks and driver weight, too.

ex: 13 gallon tank = 220 lbs CO2

Do the Math | Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom Murphy This is part of a series of posts representing ideas from the book, Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. I view the ideas explored in Ishmael to be so important to the world that it seems everyone should have a chance to be exposed. I hope this treatment inspires you to read the original.

Fun fact: fossil fuels are being regenerated at about 30MW on average (over 100M years), so if we used less than that they'd be considered renewable.
We're currently using 14,000 MW but hey, here's hoping.
h/t Prof Tom Murphy dothemath.ucsd.edu

🫧 We need to propagate positive, realistic, aspirational visions of the future alongside all of the doomsday ones. Without incepting visions of what's possible, we're stuck in navel-gazing doom spirals or grasping for exit strategies into space because that's all we know.

Looking forward to the day we can identify a single real adult in government. Manhood and womanhood are not about age.

Earth is in trouble at ~400 parts per million of CO2. To the people wanting to terraform Mars - it has ~950,000 parts per million CO2. Fix home first..?

YouTube video by Reinvent Futures Saul Griffith on “How Can AI Accelerate Progress in Clean Energy & Climate Tech?”

Some real talk about what needs to be done to address climate change (electrify 20B machines) and what's preventing it (regulation #1) from Saul Griffith
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koz5...

Millennials hate on Boomers for taking all the economic opportunities but at least they were working to create something. Gens Z and Alpha have a case that Millennials are actually more culpable for chasing unrealistic economic carrots while allowing the world to utterly crumble around them.

Been playing with the idea of Dharma vs Purpose. Purpose is generally an individualistic idea of meaning or direction. Dharma is fitting yourself into the order of the universe, closer to duty, and has a much deeper richness. It also evolves over one's life, leaving room for growth through phases.

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice At Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

This AI demo is truly human-seeming and remarkably funny. It feels surprisingly good to speak to it. Definitely crossed to the good side of the uncanny valley for me: www.sesame.com/research/cro...

Actually in awe of the level of corruption on display with this crypto reserve announcement. Honestly thought I was beyond surprise by now. Maybe it’s fake… or…

I look forward to all the insider trading jail sentences that… get…

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Lawyers are the most dangerous profession to overproduce because they disproportionately lead revolutions 😅

www.niskanencenter.org/are-we-overp...

Hello, Bluesky.