So it goes.
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Steampunk novelist, channeling Kurt Vonnegut. World weary science editor.
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
So it goes.
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
So it goes.
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
March 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Posting less these days because cruel bastards are going out of their way to make life harder for me and a lot of good people.
So it goes.
So it goes.
February 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Posting less these days because cruel bastards are going out of their way to make life harder for me and a lot of good people.
So it goes.
So it goes.
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a
life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This
was a common combination on the planet Earth.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This
was a common combination on the planet Earth.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
February 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a
life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This
was a common combination on the planet Earth.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This
was a common combination on the planet Earth.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
February 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champion
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champion
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champion
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champion
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
January 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
January 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
January 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
They gave Pandora a box. Prometheus begged her not to open it. She opened it. Every evil to which human flesh is heir came out of it.
The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
January 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They gave Pandora a box. Prometheus begged her not to open it. She opened it. Every evil to which human flesh is heir came out of it.
The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
January 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
Artists …. are people who say, “I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!”
—Kurt Vonnegut
—Kurt Vonnegut
January 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Artists …. are people who say, “I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!”
—Kurt Vonnegut
—Kurt Vonnegut
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
January 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
The Dresden atrocity ... was so meaningless, finally, that only one person ... got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book ... . One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
January 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The Dresden atrocity ... was so meaningless, finally, that only one person ... got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book ... . One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
January 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
January 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
January 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
LISTEN: Yesterday, as I was installing my annual tax software, I had so much trouble proving I was a human that I almost gave up.
Because I can’t find all the squares with bicycles, I wonder if I’m only part of some sophisticated simulation, an AI LLM that only thinks I’m alive.
So it goes.
Because I can’t find all the squares with bicycles, I wonder if I’m only part of some sophisticated simulation, an AI LLM that only thinks I’m alive.
So it goes.
January 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
LISTEN: Yesterday, as I was installing my annual tax software, I had so much trouble proving I was a human that I almost gave up.
Because I can’t find all the squares with bicycles, I wonder if I’m only part of some sophisticated simulation, an AI LLM that only thinks I’m alive.
So it goes.
Because I can’t find all the squares with bicycles, I wonder if I’m only part of some sophisticated simulation, an AI LLM that only thinks I’m alive.
So it goes.
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake
January 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment.
― Kurt Vonnegut
January 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country
January 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country
It isn’t knowledge that’s making trouble, but the uses it’s put to.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano.
January 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It isn’t knowledge that’s making trouble, but the uses it’s put to.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano.
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
January 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
—Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions