The space diaspora occurred as late capitalism writhed in its internal decision concerning whether to destroy Earth’s biosphere or change its rules. Many argued for the destruction of the biosphere, a...
The phrase it is as if. This phrase is of course precisely the announcement of an analogy. And on reflection, it is admittedly a halting problem, but jumping out of it, there is something quite sugges...
The passenger compartment of this one goes right to the moon. The booster stage will come back down after your launch and land right over there. She pointed across the concrete
She keeps a shrine to Sol Invictus in her room, performs the pratahsamdhya ceremony, the salute to the sun, every morning
Omnipresent sublime,
Nonviolent civil resistance of various soft kinds is demonstrably more successful than violent resistance when it comes to actually achieving the stated goals of the resistance and changing things for...
Here’s the genuine thoughtfulness and deep consideration for sake of truth and meaningful understanding. There’s the recognition that if there were simple answers, we’d have already implemented simple...
Doesn’t require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed.
Capital, having considerably more liquidity than water, slid
[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior
You died to teach me that I was wrong -- that though we had saved her we had killed her too, that that feeling we had had, striding through them as if through worthless dogs, was a poison that would n...
Yes, a busy space, the interstellar medium. Empty space, near vacuum: and yet still, not vacuum itself, not pure vacuum. There are forces and atoms, fields, and the ever-foaming quantum surf, in which...
Yeah, hey you know carbon sinks are so crucial, scrubbing CO2 out of the air may eventually turn out to be our only option, so maybe we should reverse those two clauses. Make carbon sinks come first a...
Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty t...
Why does nitrogen break so often? Because it’s hard to fix! Ha-ha.
When you have a strong conservative streak in your society, Zeyk would say, which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when you get the worst kinds of civil wars.
When you have a strong conservative streak in your society, Zeyk would say, which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when you get the worst kinds of civil wars. As in the conflict in...
When you had the world and your body as canvases, why deal in squares of wallpaper?
When obsessives are given their object of desire, what do they feel? It was hard to say, really. In a sense their lives were ending; yet something else, some other life, had finally, finally begun…. F...
When I'm with you I feel faintly anxious, judged, inadequate. Not the kind of person you like, which I find offensive, and thus behave more like that part of me than ever. Though I want your good opin...