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Episode 122

March 01 2022

1. Welcome, updates, thanks to supporters, hello to new listeners and subscribers.
2. Solid State Flight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGM4JXVB5FM As inspired by Andreas Xirtus excellent and largely overlooked videos from two years ago, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PejmKpgx-Wk here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJ8fj7Rf98 and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdz-lPafN7k
3. Adoption is Trauma
4. Help me with this story by sharing your experiences- Is the Self Storage Industry a Scam? $5Billion in unused goods in people’s homes, cluttered garages and homes, moves for work and more create the need for self storage industry. 10% of households in US rented a unit in 2020? Deaths, defaults, and abandonments mean much of these goods stored go unclaimed. Death, Divorce, Displacement, Disaster causes for needing storage. $38 billion market. The industry has greatly benefited from the covid pandemic. Public Storage (biggest co) Initially numbers went down, then went way up due to a robust Housing Market (read: housing bubble), High Earning employees working from home, and an abandonment of expensive urban markets as people embraced new hybrid and remote work models caused a strong growth in demand for Self Storage of nearly 3% in less than one year. Doesn’t sound like all that much but remember Public Storage makes about $3.5 Billion a year as of 2019, so around 10.5 million. Covid was described by the CEO of smaller Self Storage company Neighbor as “A major growth driver for our business”.
5. I accidentally blew up my own website- FIXED

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Baked and Awake

Episode 124- Baked GPT

2.16.2023

In this episode, I relate a story written by Chat GPT based on a prompt I constructed for it. I’ve included a link to the full, unedited transcript of the conversation here in the show notes. I made this episode because I believe this technology is the next big disruption and the first one in a while. This directly relates back to many conversations we have already had on the podcast about the interesting and terrifying technology known as Deepfakes. Join me as I learn all I can about the rapidly evolving landscape of AI Conversational Models, AI Powered Art tools, and more.

Transcript of “AI Determines it’s Purpose”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBSwO3mnm6or8suzW3eMZVuU3VKZULXQ7FMsLFwC-FM/edit?usp=sharing

Transcript of “Camus inspired Essay”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pzn-UvXmw5a_hQmQSVdyIjyTFzmQsVNBHn3BKyKbMT0/edit?usp=sharing

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Baked and Awake

Episode 56

Host: Stephen Cominski

The Nag Hammadi Library, PART TWO

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The Nag Hammadi Library

Translated by Thomas O. Lambdin

(Visit the Gospel of Thomas Collection for additional information and other translations)

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(23) Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one out of a thousand, and two out of ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single one."

(24) His disciples said to him, "Show us the place where you are, since it is necessary for us to seek it."

He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him hear. There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, he is darkness."

(25) Jesus said, "Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye."

(26) Jesus said, "You see the mote in your brother's eye, but you do not see the beam in your own eye. When you cast the beam out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to cast the mote from your brother's eye."

(27) "If you do not fast as regards the world, you will not find the kingdom. If you do not observe the Sabbath as a Sabbath, you will not see the father."

(28) Jesus said, "I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty. And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men, because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the world, and empty too they seek to leave the world. But for the moment they are intoxicated. When they shake off their wine, then they will repent."

(29) Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty."

(30) Jesus said, "Where there are three gods, they are gods. Where there are two or one, I am with him."

(31) Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him."

(32) Jesus said, "A city being built on a high mountain and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."

(33) Jesus said, "Preach from your housetops that which you will hear in your ear. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a lampstand so that everyone who enters and leaves will see its light."

We will end our recitation of The Gospel of Thomas here for the purposes of brevity and because I believe the introduction has been made at this point. I am considering taking the audio from this episode and last, and recording the full text of the book and releasing it at some later point in time as special content, if there appears to be some interest in it.

When considering the impact of the Nag Hammadi Library, it is crucial to have some appreciation for not only how amazing it is that we even have these books at all, but also how much cultural, technological, and even political insight they provide into this incredibly important era of Human history, where and when so much of the world’s core values systems draw their roots back to. I found an erudite summary of the historical gestalt in which we find the Nag Hammadi texts on a website called CatholicIreland.net. We will read an excerpt from that summary of an in depth analysis of the texts in the form of a book called “The Gnostic Discoveries”. The section we will review is focused on Codicology at the Museum of Cairo, for some perspective on the texts physical construction..

Thought...

Baked and Awake

January 29 2023

Episode 123

SMOKE RESPONSIBLY MY DUDES

Intro

Welcome back, it's been a while, but we’re back together again. Consider this a test to weed out all the fair weather listeners- if you’re still here, you passed the trial! There will be cake served at the end of this podcast for all. Now, I’ve been keeping busy as I’m sure you all have in your own subjectively protagonistic worlds. Everyone in my family and circle as far as I know, is doing pretty well, certainly nothing to report or to complain about. I trust and hope that wherever you are listening to this right now, you are well. Well enough anyway to take a little time to sit for a few moments with me while I tell you a couple of stories That I found interesting. Maybe join me for a puff, maybe don’t. Both states of being are compatible with the vibe here on Baked and Awake. If you’re listening here on Youtube, smash that like button, subscribe and share the channel, and be kind to each other in the comments section, where I hope to hear your thoughts on anything I talk about during this episode. Watch/listen till the end for me to really help my retention numbers and as a result, become more visible to new listeners through the all powerful algorithm. Algorithms? Is it one, or more? Nevermind but that might be foreshadowing...

First up today I want to more or less introduce a topic that I really was only ever dimly aware of- a technology semi lost to history, but from the not very distant past as I see it. That technology is something out of a steampunk novel or fantasy film, or so I kind of thought, until I stumbled on a video where else but on YouTube (love it or hate it YT has the most content anywhere- don’t @ me). The subject I’m talking about is called Transport Gasifier technology. In short, cars, trucks, trains and boats/ships running on biomass fuels. Wood Powered vehicles. Coal, Charcoal, Wood Pellets, Even garbage (picturing the Doc stuffing rotten banana peels into the delorean’s flux capacitor or whatever it was at the beginning?ending of Back to the future II before flying off into space time once again...)

-Gasifier Transport Technology

How Gasification Works

A treasure of a forum post about wood powered motorcycles

A hundred years of wood powered vehicles GenGaz Lagunov, Excellent YT Subject matter expert on Gasifier tech.

-My Side of the Mountain and the American Mythology Channel YT. Check out that channel and tell me “They lived in hollow trees” doesn’t give you warm fuzzy feelings as you remember the first time you ever watched the “No Trees on Flat Earth” video... Comment your thoughts down below if you’re listening on Youtube,

-Do already ubiquitous AI’s like Chat GPT pose an existential threat? Should we experiment with it here on the Podcast? Hah, too late! Does all this eventually circle back around to our prior discussions about Deepfake videos?

-Side note: There was a Recent attack on US power Grid in OR, WA, and North Carolina

What early episodes to remaster for better audio? Suggestions? I’m thinking about the Norb Theory and Mel’s Hole, Possibly Maury Island to start..

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Episode 119

The Smoky God Part One

A tale of exploration of the Northern Extremes of the Earth, and what lies beyond. Thanks to Nathan Armouro of the Tartary Nova community for sharing this story with me.

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