The reports started leaking out of China about a new kind of flu, maybe a bioweapon, genetically engineered by a Chinese military lab, maybe released into the wild by sheer incompetence on the part of a scientists or bureaucrats, maybe released deliberately by the CCP, or by one of its enemies, or by a disgruntled …
Nursery Rhyme for Techno-Industrial Society
Destroy your smart phone. Return to tradition. Let this be your terminal network transmission.
El Nuevo Acuerdo Verde
Nota del autor: Si tienes pensamientos o sentimientos suicidas NO leas esto. Busca ayuda. Hablo completamente en serio. Puedes empezar aquí: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ --- La primera vez que vi una cápsula Greenlight en persona fue ayer. Era de un blanco brillante con una llamativa franja vertical de color verde, verde pino fresco, sutilmente iluminado por LEDs …
God-Shaped Hole
Author’s notes: This story is available in three places. Here, where you will need an ad blocker. On Autistic Mercury , which has just re-launched and is cool. On Medium. Medium does not support colorized text, but the ad situation is better than here, if you can't use an ad blocker for some reason. The following contains sexual …
the green new deal
The first time I saw a Greenlight pod in person was yesterday. It was glossy white with an eye-catching vertical green stripe, cool pine tree green, subtly illuminated by inset LEDs. There was a portrait on the side of it at eye level, a pretty blonde woman holding a young boy, smiling down at him, tranquil and content.
Avatars
Islam tells us that on the unappealable day of judgement, all who have perpetrated images of living things will reawaken with their works, and will be ordered to blow life into them, and they will fail, and they and their works will be cast into the fires of punishment. I think of this whenever I …
The Gig Economy
“But it is my firm conviction that the 'Hell of England' will cease to be that of 'not making money;' that we shall get a nobler Hell and a nobler Heaven!” -- Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present I. Lately, I have not been feeling quite myself. I live on the internet, which is to say, …
