Why should the popular media have monopoly over fearmongering? Hence I too shall contribute to the sense of paranoia out there.
Off late I have seen a growing trend among the health conscious to 'walk in reverse'. Not just spinning their arms and stretching whilst walking but actually walk in the opposite direction to where their eyes are pointing.
(ridiculous definition # 1 - conscious - any ditz with the subjective awareness of the aspects of cognitive processing and the content of the mind - I wonder if anything walking on the street is processing anything other than getting through the day).
The trend is pronounced in the Asian community surely due to some Yin yang in central China having propounded the belief that this is good for you ..
(ridic def # 2 - Asian - people hailing from China, Mongolia, India and other island nations in the South Asian latitudes - too many to name).
Now its catching on - More Indians too are falling prey to this ritual. I am no health expert but I can see this getting to Epidemic proportions like the Whole Foods movement did.
Now in the civilized societies like America we are used to stop for pedestrian crossings and people crossing across using these marked lanes. However we have never seen one going in reverse - not turn around and walk back type - simply a person walking backwards.
(ridic def # 3 - Civilized - countries that practice the law of issuing a ticket for jaywalking to fellow humans absent the Jay of course).
Imagine that along with the sign spinners on the sidewalks we also now have to contend with folks that you would never know were coming or going? Imagine sitting at a light and the person goes walking backward in the sidewalk...what are the laws about this approach?
Not a problem in third world countries who are used to this and much more by way of unimaginable obstacles occupying their modes of transit but to us coddled versions where even a vehicle with 'odd' number of wheels tends to bring stares.
This time for a tech conference in the realm of what else? AI. But applied to an oft neglected space called Knowledge Management. The latter is a community of practice that focuses on analyzing, organizing and making available reams of data that have been gathered over time by various functions within an organization for anyone in the company to utilize. This function or process is ripe for applying AI agents (or agentic AI framework) and optimize for better outcomes. It was informative. More rewarding was getting acquainted with folks who practice this craft as well as learning of what they see in the corporate or public sectors. Since the venue was Washington DC it also afforded me the chance to take evening strolls albeit the weather was trying. With wind chill in the single digit it still is a glamorous place to perambulate through history absorbing what this country has been through since its founding days. I was able to visit the place Lincoln was killed along with his monument t...
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