2023: First Half News Summary

6/30/2023

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Progress in the T2 Tile Project

• Artifical Life Countdown: The six-month project reaches its climax.
  • T-0: Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching (#3135)
  • From T-11: Build new life in 180 days
• Demo: 76 Boxes of Linux On The Wall (#3136)
• About upcoming July 4th : Multicellular Challenge T-0 (#3141)
• 28 commits to ulam-5 develop repository for bug fixes, etc.
  • now with six contributing developers

Outreach: Social

• The Computing Up podcast reached its 67th episode
• @livcomp left Twitter for Mastodon, Oct 27th, 2022
• T2 Tile Discord: 97 members
• Upcoming ALife2023 Conference Talk scheduled for July 26th, via Zoom

Outreach: Videos

• T2 Tile Project: +191 new, 1.04K subscribers
  • On the first Tuesday of each month, at noon Mountain Time
  • Posted 6 T2sday Updates #3135-#3140 to The T2 Tile Project YouTube channel
• T2 Demos channel: +4 new, 83 subscribers
  • Added demo #213 (3:46) Ancestor14234 Full Run
• DaveAckley channel: +211 new, 5230 subscribers
  • No new videos

Outreach: Writing

• LCF publishes first book: "Companionate Caring: An Ethical Philosophy of Life" by Sheldon C. Ackley
  • Excerpt: Ethics as Networking (#3138)
  • 2 copies awarded to live-stream viewers (#3138): @quantumplation (LCFN230), @pheonix1328 (direct)
  • Also donated copies to: Library of Congress, NY Society of Ethical Culture
  • In Stores Now (#3139): 7 copies sold
• Short story "Search Quiet Wake" (SQW) still on hold.
• ALife2023 Conference paper submitted, accepted for oral presentation, camera-ready shipped: "A Robust Programmable Replicator for an Indefinitely Scalable Machine"

Foundation Business

• Latest assigned Living Computation Foundation Nerd number: LCFN251
• 4 recurring donors: LCFN210, LCFN236, LCFN240, LCFN241
• Zoom subscription
• Block of 99 ISBNs unused, 1 used
• Purchased 2 samples + 1 direct + 25 additional copies of "Companionate Caring" book