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Nicole Hemenway

bending reality, living parallel systems into existence, & sharing what I find

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Yoga Sutra 1.2-5: The spiritual warfare of making minds spin

Let’s start with a few items of AI-related news that have been turning over in my mind recently.

On AI & National Security

On Feb 26th, Anthropic declined to sign a contract with the Department of War that would have explicitly allow...

3 months ago
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Yoga Sutra 1.1: Start where you are

अथ योगानुशासनम् || 1.1

atha yogānūśāsanam || 1.1

Now, we begin a discourse on yoga.

I’ve danced around this project for many years now, and today I’m gonna be where I am in it—at Book 1, Line 1.

It’s a funny feature of spaceti...

3 months ago
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National general strike on Jan 30th. Spread the word.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, USA — On January 23rd, 2026, the people of Minneapolis committed their bodies to making visible for all of us the scale of our unrest. It was the largest scale general strike in 80 years.

They showed us on Friday that we h...

4 months ago
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The revolution will not be ads-powered

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“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dr...
4 months ago
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You forgot to mention how much water AI consumes.

I have 40k followers on my “AI education for the people” Instagram account, a loud contingent of which is very concerned about the environmental impacts of AI data centers.

Many of you have asked me to speak to this topic before, and I’ve...

6 months ago
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