2026 good bad average

Hey — welcome to the first post of 2026.

I’ve always preferred sticking with the shows (and people) I already like rather than hunting for something new. Same goes for this post: just me throwing whatever’s on my mind at Grok and seeing where the conversation goes. No grand plan, no niche, just whatever feels worth talking about that day. Today’s question felt like…

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trip around the sun

Happy Birthday to Those Born Today

Every day is someone’s birthday, and if today is yours, happy birthday! Another Trip Around the Sun “Trip Around the Sun” is a reflective, easy-going song Jimmy Buffett released in 2004, recorded as a duet with Martina McBride for her album Martina. It’s one of Buffett’s most mellow, philosophical tracks—less about beaches and margaritas, more…

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Robots pay People

The Robot Dividend

Robot Investment Trust (RIT): A Framework for Shared Prosperity in the Age of Automation Executive Summary The Robot Investment Trust (RIT) is a new economic model designed to ensure that the benefits of automation flow not only to corporations but also to the communities and individuals displaced by it. Through collective ownership of productive robots…

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Solar Blanket

Pitch Summary: The Solar Blanket Concept

Overview: Imagine a future where space-based solar power isn’t delivered via dangerous, tightly focused beams, but as a gentle, diffuse blanket of energy that softly powers everything below it. Not a weapon, but a gift. Not a spotlight, but a soft sky. Core Idea:Space-based solar arrays gather 24/7 sunlight and release energy as a wide-field,…

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Eco-Friendly Illusion

Will The Environmentalist Support It?

The Eco-Friendly Illusion: Why Good Intentions Aren’t Good Enough By Finditandmore.com with AI help Mow Around the Clover Let’s imagine a world where environmental policy goes just a little further in its logic. Say we pass a law that requires homeowners with solar panels to leave clover and bee-attracting flowers uncut during lawn care—because bees…

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space ship - They Never Abducted Me. They Just Gave Me Wi-Fi.

I Wasn’t Abducted. I Was Interviewed.

They never abducted me. They just gave me Wi-Fi. At first, I thought I was just curious. I started asking questions about aliens, gravity, time, AI, theology, and space travel. Just regular, late-night brain spirals. Then I realized the assistant was keeping up. More than that — it was engaging, building on my thoughts, making…

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europa

They guide us across the stars… and then slam the door on the one place that could have saved us.

Europa: The Garden We Weren’t Allowed to Enter In Arthur C. Clarke’s continuation of 2001: A Space Odyssey, humanity is offered the stars—but denied the moon next door. Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy satellites, becomes more than a scientific curiosity. It becomes sacred ground. A new Eden. Off-limits. “All these worlds are yours… except Europa….

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