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Fifth “Wonderland Revisited” Demo

I just finished a demo trying to capture Alice’s interaction with the Caterpillar (without resorting to drug theme, which kinda misses the point anyway):

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Fourth “Wonderland Revisited” Song Demo

What better way to spend the early morning hours of the first day of 2026 finishing a song demo! Here’s Bill:

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I Applied For A Job At OpenAI

OpenAI is recruiting for a “Head of Preparedness.” I applied earlier today. The company describes the role as being “directly responsible leader for building and coordinating capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations that form a coherent, rigorous, and operationally scalable safety pipeline.” Of course, that’s mostly nonsense, or at best happy but unenforceable ethics, since […]

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Third “Wonderland Revisited” Song Demo

I just finished the third song — A Sad Tail — which recounts Alice interpreting the Mouse’s story as gibberish and then looking at his tail and wondering how it could be sad:

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Second “Wonderland Revisited” Song Demo

Here’s song #2 for Wonderland Revisited: It’s called Poor Alice:

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Did Physicists Just Prove The Existence of God?

A new research report from physicists at the University of British Columbia claims there’s mathematical proof that there’s some “understanding” in the cosmos that exists beyond any capacity for us to describe or explain it. They did their study to challenge the premise that our universe is a computer simulation (and, by association, that we […]

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First “Wonderland Revisited” Song Demo

I just finished the first demo for Wonderland Revisited; it’s called Down, Down, Down:

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Wonderland Revisited

I started composing work over the weekend on the next Mortal Fools gig: Wonderland Revisited. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was Lewis Carroll’s first novel, published in 1865 though begun two years earlier as a real-time invention as Carroll was boating with friend and his three kids. It stands among firsts in children’s literature as well […]

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Why I Quit Linkedin

I’ve closed my Linkedin account. The decision was easy, based on three factors: First, it was no longer a place where I could comfortably represent myself. Having closed my business after a few decades’ of work, it had become a shrine to who I was and what I did. One could argue that my work […]

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The End of the World

Earlier today, I completed the first course in what will be a 4-year program at the University of Chicago’s Graham School. It’s all about the end of the world. Well, not really, but sorta. The formal name for the session was: “The End(s) of Humanity: Classic Texts and Existential Threats I: The Human Career: Myth, […]

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