no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.

Tech

  • “Plastics!”

    One word, kid… “Plastics!” Gene Wolfe in 1988, putting on his Engineer Hat with this rather prescient thought… Wolfe: There are more than two paths we can head down. I feel both optimistic and pessimistic about what we’ve been doing with technology. As you say, it has already been used to produce both wonderful and Continue reading

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  • on twitter, and the sole proprietor…

    Here’s why I stopped long-form blogging all those years ago: I didn’t see the point of it. Because, you see, No Audience. No Pushback. By 2013 the blogosphere was already in decline. Too many of us out there, no way to share ideas with Others without having to turn oneself into a Brand, to attract Continue reading

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  • King Elmo Go Boom.

    I’ve held off a bit noting the Starship Launch Failure. Wanted to give the news a little time to settle. Even with his now-weakened Reality Distortion Field, King Elmo still gets special treatment by the press. The tech aspects are covered in depth elsewhere, but so far the basic knowns are: Basically the 30+ engine Continue reading

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  • on the artiface of intelligence…

    Had one of those early-morning, overly vivid dreams: Two pairs of perfectly human-looking robots (they were ‘robots’ in the dream, not ‘androids’, so let’s use that word here). And these were Manichaean robots, apparently: One pair felt ‘good’– or at least I was supposed to feel more sympathetic towards them– and the other pair were ‘bad’. Continue reading

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