P. Orin Zack
@gznork26.bsky.social
Spent a career in IT stacking bits and stringing words.
High point: NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network during Voyager 1's encounter at Saturn.
Wrote 3 novels & 200+ short stories.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com
Help fix the OS of our self-governance.
#gOS_2.0
High point: NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network during Voyager 1's encounter at Saturn.
Wrote 3 novels & 200+ short stories.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com
Help fix the OS of our self-governance.
#gOS_2.0
Visualized in The Golden Compass, rescission cuts the soul of a government agency from the body politic.
July 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Visualized in The Golden Compass, rescission cuts the soul of a government agency from the body politic.
#Photography
Pedals of a pedal harp, as viewed by a student in anguish over learning how to use them.
Pedals of a pedal harp, as viewed by a student in anguish over learning how to use them.
July 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#Photography
Pedals of a pedal harp, as viewed by a student in anguish over learning how to use them.
Pedals of a pedal harp, as viewed by a student in anguish over learning how to use them.
May 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Patient zero for the ongoing crises
May 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Patient zero for the ongoing crises
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
Always
Chickens
Out
May 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
Always
Chickens
Out
I miss the view of the local volcano from our home in Renton.
May 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I miss the view of the local volcano from our home in Renton.
In '70, I wrote a silly story about a creature called a gznork, and had the name put on my ΔΣΦ fraternity jersey.
Today, I asked ChatGPT to show me what it looks like.
Today, I asked ChatGPT to show me what it looks like.
May 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In '70, I wrote a silly story about a creature called a gznork, and had the name put on my ΔΣΦ fraternity jersey.
Today, I asked ChatGPT to show me what it looks like.
Today, I asked ChatGPT to show me what it looks like.
A techie hangout I frequent called Soylent News has a user-operated moderation system. Part of it is several ways to rate a post or reply. Each one also has a mod value. Users can set their viewing preferences to filter below some resultant value.
May 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A techie hangout I frequent called Soylent News has a user-operated moderation system. Part of it is several ways to rate a post or reply. Each one also has a mod value. Users can set their viewing preferences to filter below some resultant value.
In all the universe, we know of only one place where conservation, fish, wildlife and other living products of nature abound. Here's what it looks like from just beyond Saturn: that pale blue dot on the lower right side of the photo.
May 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
In all the universe, we know of only one place where conservation, fish, wildlife and other living products of nature abound. Here's what it looks like from just beyond Saturn: that pale blue dot on the lower right side of the photo.
We took 35mm stills in the Yorktown Cinema in Chicagoland during the initial release, and recorded the cheers when the Death Star exploded on cassette. In total we saw Star Wars 13 times in theaters during that 72+ week run.
May 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We took 35mm stills in the Yorktown Cinema in Chicagoland during the initial release, and recorded the cheers when the Death Star exploded on cassette. In total we saw Star Wars 13 times in theaters during that 72+ week run.
Well, the 'secret' is out: Trump believes he runs the world. I got that impression when he said he expected world leaders to appear before him in groups of 6 each week to beg for lower tariffs.
April 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Well, the 'secret' is out: Trump believes he runs the world. I got that impression when he said he expected world leaders to appear before him in groups of 6 each week to beg for lower tariffs.
We're in the midst of an event cascade whose underpinnings go back at least to Joe McCarthy's HUAC. Like the dominos in V for Vendetta, a small event, such as the arrest of Judge Dugan, or what happened in this story, can trigger an avalanche, or revolution.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/s...
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/s...
April 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We're in the midst of an event cascade whose underpinnings go back at least to Joe McCarthy's HUAC. Like the dominos in V for Vendetta, a small event, such as the arrest of Judge Dugan, or what happened in this story, can trigger an avalanche, or revolution.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/s...
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/s...
I'll post something from the very first Earth Day in 1970. The celebration at Florida Institute of Technology included a guest speaker: Jacques Cousteau. I got a bumper sticker, but put into my attache case.
April 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'll post something from the very first Earth Day in 1970. The celebration at Florida Institute of Technology included a guest speaker: Jacques Cousteau. I got a bumper sticker, but put into my attache case.
We can help do this right here. Once the junta is defeated, we need to force changes to the legal basis of our self-governance. A few of us have started sketching out fixes in the leaflet doc attached to #gOS_2.0
Our legal system was hacked. Flaws were exploited. backdoors installed. Help fix it.
Our legal system was hacked. Flaws were exploited. backdoors installed. Help fix it.
April 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We can help do this right here. Once the junta is defeated, we need to force changes to the legal basis of our self-governance. A few of us have started sketching out fixes in the leaflet doc attached to #gOS_2.0
Our legal system was hacked. Flaws were exploited. backdoors installed. Help fix it.
Our legal system was hacked. Flaws were exploited. backdoors installed. Help fix it.
(the conclusion...)
April 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
(the conclusion...)
Absent 'Military OneSource' to say if an order is lawful, service members would have been on their own to make that judgement, just as we all have. but just as we can take concerted action, so might they. I wrote this in 2008, but it still applies.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/s...
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/s...
April 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Absent 'Military OneSource' to say if an order is lawful, service members would have been on their own to make that judgement, just as we all have. but just as we can take concerted action, so might they. I wrote this in 2008, but it still applies.
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/s...
klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/s...
#gOS_2.0
Defeating tyranny is our immediate concern, but rebuilding our self-governance afterwards will require as much effort as monitoring Voyager or guiding weapons.
The OS of self-governance has been hacked, but together we can rewrite the legal code to prevent a recurrence.
April 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#gOS_2.0
Defeating tyranny is our immediate concern, but rebuilding our self-governance afterwards will require as much effort as monitoring Voyager or guiding weapons.
The OS of self-governance has been hacked, but together we can rewrite the legal code to prevent a recurrence.
The poster of the original paperbacks oversees our lives, and the bust of Galadrial guards our hearth.
Frodo Lives
Frodo Lives
April 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The poster of the original paperbacks oversees our lives, and the bust of Galadrial guards our hearth.
Frodo Lives
Frodo Lives
My breakfast heard that Kristi Noem was confirmed for Homeland Security Secretary.
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My breakfast heard that Kristi Noem was confirmed for Homeland Security Secretary.
Any time 🍊💩 is not given praise by a woman in power, he calls her 'nasty'. With his history of constant projection, I have to wonder if he's still lashing out at a woman in power who called him 'nasty' when he was a child.
January 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Any time 🍊💩 is not given praise by a woman in power, he calls her 'nasty'. With his history of constant projection, I have to wonder if he's still lashing out at a woman in power who called him 'nasty' when he was a child.
Instead of becoming a mindless 'Rhinocerous', people today become MAGA, but Gene Wilder's character's sign in the 1974 movie is still powerful:
"You better not compromise yourself. It's all you got."
"You better not compromise yourself. It's all you got."
January 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Instead of becoming a mindless 'Rhinocerous', people today become MAGA, but Gene Wilder's character's sign in the 1974 movie is still powerful:
"You better not compromise yourself. It's all you got."
"You better not compromise yourself. It's all you got."
My kidhood focus was space, starting with the Ranger moon probes. I'd been at the Apollo 11 parade and worked at JPL before getting into #ballooning while on a DoD contract. So I'm jealous of what must have been a more magical experience for you. For me it was a practical engineering adventure.
January 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My kidhood focus was space, starting with the Ranger moon probes. I'd been at the Apollo 11 parade and worked at JPL before getting into #ballooning while on a DoD contract. So I'm jealous of what must have been a more magical experience for you. For me it was a practical engineering adventure.
#Ballooning
Even though I mostly crewed for ‘Double Eagle’, the only pins I got were from filling in on crew for two other balloons. Got lots of pictures, though.
Even though I mostly crewed for ‘Double Eagle’, the only pins I got were from filling in on crew for two other balloons. Got lots of pictures, though.
January 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#Ballooning
Even though I mostly crewed for ‘Double Eagle’, the only pins I got were from filling in on crew for two other balloons. Got lots of pictures, though.
Even though I mostly crewed for ‘Double Eagle’, the only pins I got were from filling in on crew for two other balloons. Got lots of pictures, though.