2023: First Half News Summary
6/30/2023
Progress in the T2 Tile Project
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
- DaveAckley channel: +211 new, 5230 subscribers
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