Bitcoin mining earns 1/2 as many bitcoins every 4 years. The reward for mining a block of transactions started at 50 bitcoins in 2009. Dropped to 25 in 2012, 12.5 in 2016, and 6.25 in 2020. Sometime in May 2024, the block reward will drop to 3.125 BTC.

https://amycastor.com/2024/02/21/the-halvening-is-coming-what-this-means-for-bitcoin/

Women Explain How They’d Like To Have Their Bodies Restricted Next

https://www.theonion.com/women-explain-how-they-d-like-to-have-their-bodies-rest-1851297754

finally getting it -
how algorithms -
have been shaped -
using initial curiosities -
to find and -
lead eyeballs -
to the highest bidder -
and bidders -
become addicts -
to feeding -
on any sign of life -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

poor-things -
the whole thing -
a sur-reality -
when any present -
enacts imagining -
of the future -
it is inevitably -
generated from -
image-libraries -
of the past -
and later appreciated -
as steampunk-retro -
imagi-nears -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

attending to -
feeling generated -
through the narrative -
while we believe -
the evidence is clear -
and re-cognize the -
imaginaga-world -
enact same feelings -
righteously-too -
the evidence -
is inspired-visible -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

At the time, Swisher was married to a Google vice president and describes spending time with Page and his then girlfriend, along with many other rising figures in the tech industry.

https://disconnect.blog/kara-swishers-reality-distortion-field/

honest fictions -
by what measures -
accounted as honest -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

the neocons -
are the Dr Frankenstein -
of Trumpism -
and desperate fore -
redeeming -
rehabilitation -

this would be -
the rise of -
Dr Frankencons -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

perhaps -
life is fundamentally -
negentropic (anti-entropy) -
the 4-forces -
make for clumps of differences -
that living constrains -
enabling non-ergodic -
possibility spaces -
reaches beyond -
ever grasping -
making lots of room -
for growth -
every-which-way -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

relationships -
help constrain -
self-indulgences -
and then again -
it isn't always -
the destination-performance -
sometimes it's the -
honest performing-of-a-journey -
yes-and -
makes for the most -
playful entangling-afford-dancing -
mc-gyvering-collectives -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

underperforming -
the-over-expected -
literally over-well-med -
like someone -
who can't forget -
anything -
for fear of -
not remembering -
to-do some-thing -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

studies of genetic similarities between species suggest humans could be, at least, 80 to 90 per cent genetically similar to cats, dogs, rats and cattle, a bit less so for chickens, and 40 to 60 per cent similar to various insects, including fruit flies.

https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-shared-genetic-memories-between-us-the-cat-and-the-fly

like ballard says -
fiction is external now -
in vast-ecologies -
of entangling-narration -
narration-nations
and value-tribes -
o-clan attractor-turbulences -
and evolutions -
trauma-socks -
fore-sight-unknown -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

ponder ring -
conventions of -
mind-self -
embodied enaction -
simulacras -
of medication -
tofrom andor -
microdosing -
meditation -
shadow-psyche-work -
the accounting of -
dis-eases of mind-self-ecologies -
and invasive moral-narratives -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

"Altermagnetism is actually not something hugely complicated. It is something entirely fundamental that was in front of our eyes for decades without noticing it And it exists in many crystals that people simply had in their drawers.

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-altermagnetism-magnetism-broad-implications-technology.html

faster speed & less energy consumption, the chip has privacy advantages since many computations can happen simultaneously, there will be no need to store sensitive information in working memory, rendering a future computer virtually unhackable

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-chip-door-ai.html

2/24/2024 - Full Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2024/02/2242024-full-moon.html

‘The first night we thought: This is gonna fail miserably. ‘By the second day, there was a lot of drinking and all-night working groups. We were running on adrenaline and energy. By the last day, we realised we were making history.’
#publicwealth ?

https://aeon.co/essays/the-birth-of-our-system-for-describing-web-content