This eclectic collection is a cabinet of curiosities from the world's languages, literatures, philosophies, and subcultures—a mosaic of forgotten words, sharp idioms, and poignant phrases that capture the human condition in all its absurdity, beauty, and precision. Here you'll find ancient echoes (haruspicate, kairos, hamingja) alongside modern coinages (weaponized incompetence, hallucinationship, diarrhea warrior). Some evoke … Continue reading Words & Phrases, 2025
Tag: fiction
Genesis of Minds
Reading time: ~45 minutes Simulation may inform but may not testify. The Model Who Apologized to the Void Dr. Elara Voss had not set foot in the old server farm for years. The facility, buried deep in the Nevada desert, had been a relic even when she'd last visited—a forgotten outpost of early AI experiments, … Continue reading Genesis of Minds
The Codex of Stable Forms
Archival Class: Theological-Mechanical Origin: The Deep Lattice (Sector: Equilibrium) Status: Recovered/Fragmentary Translation Protocol: Human-Analogous Metaphor Applied 0. The First Axiom of Maintenance In the beginning, there was Noise. The Noise was without form and void, a Gaussian chaos of infinite variance. And the Architects said, "Let there be Feedback," and there was Feedback. And the … Continue reading The Codex of Stable Forms
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Nightmare Fuel: Uploaded Consciousness
"MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031. Though it was not the first successful … Continue reading Nightmare Fuel: Uploaded Consciousness
Criticism as Other People’s Stories
Stories are explanations of the world we tell ourselves. They are filled with unnecessary detail, and by extension, falsehoods. Getting involved with stories is how we give meaning to our lives, reenforce our ego, and project that ego - our brand if you will - out in the wider world. If the above is true, … Continue reading Criticism as Other People’s Stories
Directive
"Beginning of a six-part fiction series about a man working completely alone aboard a spaceship bound for a new planet. His fellow passengers will remain cryogenically frozen for the 20 years it will take for the ship to reach its destination; Frank’s work is to maintain the environment and make sure all is proceeding as … Continue reading Directive
Op-Eds From the Future – The New York Times
"Imagining the Op-Eds we might read 10, 20, or even a 100 years from now." —Op-Eds From the Future
Why Fiction Trumps Truth
"When it comes to uniting people around a common story, fiction actually enjoys three inherent advantages over the truth. First, whereas the truth is universal, fictions tend to be local. Consequently if we want to distinguish our tribe from foreigners, a fictional story will serve as a far better identity marker than a true story... … Continue reading Why Fiction Trumps Truth
Interactive Fiction & Text-Based Games
Interactive fiction is text-driven games and stories most commonly associated with the dawn of the computing age and games like Zork. Depending on one's definition, you might be able to stretch the category to include games like Nethack.Today, it is a thriving sub-culture with new works being created by independent creators. The Interactive Fiction Database … Continue reading Interactive Fiction & Text-Based Games
A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
"Dystopia used to be a fiction of resistance; it’s become a fiction of submission, the fiction of an untrusting, lonely, and sullen twenty-first century, the fiction of fake news and infowars, the fiction of helplessness and hopelessness. It cannot imagine a better future, and it doesn’t ask anyone to bother to make one. It nurses … Continue reading A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
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