I’ve been playing around with DeepDreamGenerator’s newish “text prompt” artificial intelligence image creator. This image was generated from the prompt “Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking,” a quote from Black Elk.

When Time Slows Down:

Have you ever been in a vehicle crash when the airbag deployed? It happened to me about a dozen years ago. I was stopped at a red light when a car that police later said was traveling at about 45mph slammed me from behind, pushing my car into the back of the pickup truck in front of me. I was wearing a seatbelt. That and the air bag likely saved my life. What was really strange was my perception of how the bag deployed. Most videos you can find of them deploying are slow-motion crash test dummy versions. A few here and there show real-time air bag deployment from actual crashes. The real-time versions show the bag deploying almost instantaneously. The slow-mo versions show a more languid deployment. But what I experienced seemed much slower than even the slow-mo versions — subtle, gentle rippling as the bag filled with gas. Maybe my body produced a sudden rush of adrenaline, altering my sense of time and/or augmenting my perceptions?

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Bitcoin Pushes Above $19K for First Time Since FTX Collapse

Sweden locates rare earth deposits, potentially reducing EU dependence on China

Elon Musk sets world record with worst loss of fortune in history

Decision looms on future of Britishvolt gigafactory

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

China’s COVID-19 Toll Isn’t Public. Satellite Images Seem to Show a Lot of People Are Dying

UK Conservative party MP booted out for comparing COVID vaccines to the Holocaust

Politics:

Virginia Bill Would Count Fetus as Passenger in HOV Lanes

Will they include funding for roadside pregnancy tests?

Garland Appoints Special Counsel for Biden Documents

The Document That Separates Biden and Trump

Biden vs. Trump: What is the difference between the two classified records cases?

Kevin McCarthy signaled Thursday that he’s likely to release security footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

The Justice Department and the Capitol Police have both warned that the footage contains sensitive information.

Notorious Russian arms dealer freed in Brittney Griner exchange awkwardly backs out of pledge to fight in Ukraine

Wife of Iowa Republican Candidate Voted 23 Times

The wife of an Iowa Republican who ran for Congress in 2020 was arrested Thursday and accused of casting 23 fraudulent votes on behalf of her husband.

“Ridiculous”: Democrats fume after Missouri House GOP tries to impose dress code on women lawmakers

Prosecutors Can Use Trump’s ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Video In Proud Boys Trial

Serendipity:

How the distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial division within American society

Exxon Made ‘Breathtakingly’ Accurate Climate Predictions

The oil giant Exxon privately ‘predicted global warming correctly and skilfully’ only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found.
A trove of internal documents and research papers has previously established that Exxon knew of the dangers of global heating from at least the 1970s, with other oil industry bodies knowing of the risk even earlier, from around the 1950s. They forcefully and successfully mobilized against the science to stymie any action to reduce fossil fuel use.
A new study, however, has made clear that Exxon’s scientists were uncannily accurate in their projections from the 1970s onwards, predicting an upward curve of global temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions that is close to matching what actually occurred as the world heated up at a pace not seen in millions of years.

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