I wrote about Maxinomics a couple of months ago. The team is still cranking out great videos. In the latest it asks and answers the question:
“Is AI going to take my job? No. But, someone will take your job if you do not use AI”
Author Archives: Steve Mays
Energy Boost by Nicolas Monterrat
Unable to download the animated GIF, so click here or the image above to get the full effect. More by this artist.
Religion in the Age of Stories
I prompted Perplexity to write an essay based on the seventy-five posts in the Religion category on my blog. (First one was in 2004.) Rather than have this written in my own voice with first-person interjections, I told Perplexity to present it more as a third-person commentary on “this blogger’s” long-running engagement with religion.
Across more than seventy posts in the “Religion” category, Steve Mays treats religion less as a pipeline to cosmic truth and more as an old, resilient operating system for human behavior and meaning. It sits alongside money, nations, ideologies, and corporations as one more way humans coordinate action through shared stories. In this framing, gods and doctrines are not unique intrusions from beyond the universe; they are examples of the broader human habit of inventing fictions powerful enough that people will kill and die for them. Continue reading
Mr. Buckle from “It’s A Gift” (W.C. Fields)
Click image above for some W.C. Fields genius.
