the first passage on psychogenesis is some truly incredible writing, and particularly enjoyable after reading peter watts led me to seeking out some of dennett's writings on consciousness. thank you very much for the recommendation, and i'd gladly hear any more!
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
the first passage on psychogenesis is some truly incredible writing, and particularly enjoyable after reading peter watts led me to seeking out some of dennett's writings on consciousness. thank you very much for the recommendation, and i'd gladly hear any more!
just finished Diaspora. what a uniquely mind-expanding book. gave me a much more intuitive understanding of higher-dimensional geometry, entirely apart from being probably the best piece of digital-sentience fiction i've read. sticks the tricky landing far better than most novels on these scales.
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
just finished Diaspora. what a uniquely mind-expanding book. gave me a much more intuitive understanding of higher-dimensional geometry, entirely apart from being probably the best piece of digital-sentience fiction i've read. sticks the tricky landing far better than most novels on these scales.
loved mars express, guess i've got to check out eclipse phase?
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
loved mars express, guess i've got to check out eclipse phase?
i think this was kind of the peak of interplanetary vehicle designs, when we had just pulled off a complex system like the shuttle and thought we'd take that experience further. the multi-mission Nautilus-X was the first design to really light a fire in me, ambitious but seemingly achievable.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
i think this was kind of the peak of interplanetary vehicle designs, when we had just pulled off a complex system like the shuttle and thought we'd take that experience further. the multi-mission Nautilus-X was the first design to really light a fire in me, ambitious but seemingly achievable.
link to the article? 👀
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
link to the article? 👀
ooh baru cormorant has been catching my eye at the bookstore, worth the read even without the sliders i take it?
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
ooh baru cormorant has been catching my eye at the bookstore, worth the read even without the sliders i take it?
they're calling you the most normal girl alive
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
they're calling you the most normal girl alive
yeah, it's easy to argue that the mere existence of the USSR pressured the US to improve to better its PR - everything from civil rights to building the Vulcan Bridge - but i just don't see anything similar happening with russia or china, it doesn't feel like competition on an ideological stage.
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
yeah, it's easy to argue that the mere existence of the USSR pressured the US to improve to better its PR - everything from civil rights to building the Vulcan Bridge - but i just don't see anything similar happening with russia or china, it doesn't feel like competition on an ideological stage.
combining this with a recession and a contentious election... we really are deciding to make a 2020 2
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
combining this with a recession and a contentious election... we really are deciding to make a 2020 2
yeah, people love to say 'it takes a village' and then expect two people working full-time to do it all themselves. ppl spill lots of ink about pre-contact sexual norms in hawaii but i think the takeaway is that there was no stigma to pregnancy *because* kids would just be raised communally.
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
yeah, people love to say 'it takes a village' and then expect two people working full-time to do it all themselves. ppl spill lots of ink about pre-contact sexual norms in hawaii but i think the takeaway is that there was no stigma to pregnancy *because* kids would just be raised communally.
not quite a *were*wolf book but i really love this novella called Feed Them Silence about an emotionally troubled lesbian scientist working with experimental neural interface that allows her to directly experience the sensations of america's last wild wolves
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
not quite a *were*wolf book but i really love this novella called Feed Them Silence about an emotionally troubled lesbian scientist working with experimental neural interface that allows her to directly experience the sensations of america's last wild wolves