It popped up on my Outlook calendar, flagged in red like an inflamed pimple full of infected bureaucratic pus... I've been trying desperately to get it shifted, but no, it is stuck like a king-sized d...
When humans gather, crime is certain.
We are, after all, .
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
The domes and dildos of pressurized buildings cast slowly lengthening shadows.
There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich, but the more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.These people are often selfish brats...
Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels...
We have chickens! And ostriches—they’re like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur—that’s like a really huge chicken, with teeth—but for architectural reasons we can...
The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes may be huge but unnoticed, or indeed miscategorized not as crimes at all because...
A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created ou...
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my w...
Down in the park with a friend called Five.
Don’t you have any concept of individuality? she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with her internal states.Individuality is an unnecessary barrier to information transfer, says the ghost,...
Pay attention: There will be an exam later.
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.
Only debt is forever.
Darmstadt is one of those German towns that, having been landscaped by Allied heavy bombers, rezoned by the Red Army, and rebuilt by the Marshall Plan, demonstrates perfectly that (a) sometimes it’s b...
I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's desire
Waaant equity, hisses the alien intruder.You can't be Pamela Macx, says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobster-woman-thing. She's in a nunnery in Armenia or something...