posts

• Anarcho-Doomerism is nonsensical and a nonstarter
• A short note on the ritualistic practice of 'time change' during past civilizations
• The technical problems with LLMs
• Gender is not a biological duality [non-censored]
• “Why is $[Social Media CEO] destroying their website?”
• The internet isn't real
• In Defense of Remake Culture
• Returning to the Moon: The Launch of Artemis I
• L5 by 2035
• Electricity is just normalized magic
• Uploading vs. Cloning a Mind
• Technocratic Socialism
• Cyberpunk, cyberculture, and reality
• SDRs and Compression Algorithms
• Precision Engineering & Steam Engines
• Coexistence: Automation and Humanity
• The Future is Inspiring
• DNA Data Storage: A Solution for the Digital Dark Age?
• Re: The Simple Joy of 'No Phones'
• 15 Million U.S Households Are Food Insecure
• Existence requires survival
• Social Analytics
• Why I am leaving behind nearly one million followers
• What is Transhumanism?
• View everything as optional
• 9 Truths Computer Programmers Know That Most People Don't.

recently read (notable)

• Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential
• Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
• How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
• Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
• The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
• Sounds from Silence: Graeme Clark and the Bionic Ear story
• Scotland: The Story of a Nation
• Springer Handbook of Robotics (2nd Ed.)
• The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines
• The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes
• Born on the Links: A Concise History of Golf
• The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
• The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
• Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
• Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
• Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime
• Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction (Second Edition)
• Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
• The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
• The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
• Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
• Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
• Against the Odds: An Autobiography
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
• Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
• Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway
• Hacking Darwin
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
• Digital Minimalism
• Capitalism in America
• Life at the Speed of Light: From The Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
• The Tyranny of Metrics
• Originals: How Non-Confomists Move The World
• The Social Transformation of American Medicine

projects

• Elixir: Hosting a SPA using Plug.Router, Plug.Static, and Cowboy
• Auto Generate Social Images
• FirefoxSidebar - Edge-like Vertical Tabs
• Svelte-Capacitor 2.0 - Develop Hybrid Mobile Apps at Near Native Performance
• Svelte + Capacitor (w/ live reload) Template
• Sabertooth Motor Drivers in Julia and Javascript

stories

• The Death Archives