Single Source of Truth

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 …

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, …