What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for https://atmosphereconf.org! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hyperstition and psychomagic, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and why thinking heaven is boring is a failure of imagination and misunderstanding of the infinite.
What does it mean to build an infrastructure for play? Brendan Schlagel and I trace a path around the lake in Prospect Park, chatting about generational mementos, tracing maps, a pattern language for games, riding ferries, physical constraints, and the idea of a depth jam (Recorded June 2025)
Can snow itself be like open source? Just a fun thought while walking around talking about openclaw and seeing everyone's creations.. all on a impromptu prospect park sauntercast with Melody after last week's blizzard! (titled after Illich's essay, Silence is a Commons) 0:00 highlights0:38 route and intro2:47 two weeks offline4:44 open claw and open source11:10 into the snow14:06 the xkcd dependency comic23:48 tragedy of the commons25:49 200K stars and eternal September33:40 everything was fine39:27 go back to just being people42:19 striving versus being45:54 wu wei49:16 audience of one56:36 Spotify broke the album1:06:42 foreground will never be replaced1:10:47 temporal bandwidth
What makes something call out to us? Sonya and Henry explore how prayer transforms perception: ceaseless prayer, the felt body, sacred patterns, remembrance in communion, the invisible church spread through all time, and the holy mystery we're part of. (Recorded October 2020)Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/salience0:00 Ceaseless Prayer2:37 Creation6:44 What Is Salience?10:35 The Ordinary as Extraordinary15:20 Patterns as Language19:34 The Felt Body27:19 Remembrance34:19 Embodiment37:44 Shape All the Way Down43:05 Beyond Our Concepts46:08 Eucatastrophe52:21 Praise and Prayer1:03:31 The Invisible Church1:11:55 Grace and the Fall1:17:05 No Ordinary People1:34:21 The Leap of Faith1:45:06 Holy Mystery
What happens when anyone can build anything? Melody and I snapshot this AI moment for us: vibe coding as gambling, understanding debt, McLuhan's extensions and amputations, building for community not companies, and why culture is really about cultivation.0:00 Internet Checkpoint (what it means + why we're recording)3:29 Why This Felt Urgent8:03 The Vibe Coding Journey (printers → force push → Claude Code)12:03 Why It Feels Like Gambling14:03 How the Design Process Has Changed15:26 Abstraction All the Way Down16:56 "The Hottest Programming Language Is English"18:14 The Faucet Turned On22:55 Will AI Replace Us?27:15 McLuhan: Extension and Amputation30:05 "The Seed Needs to Be High Quality"34:30 Orchestration and Human Judgment35:46 Building for Community, Not Companies39:58 Culture, Belief, and What Makes Us Human42:32 "There Is No Inevitability"48:52 The Checkpoint