Nimrod vs. Abraham
James Simpkins on cynegetic violence and ontological policing in Gregoire Chamayou's Manhunts (2012).
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People of the Past
I think of them often, don't you? They were much like us, I think. More of them, though, when you add up the decades, the centuries, the eons, all the way back
Spelling
Epistemic status: Making a stab at the ineffable. The ineffable dodges and I miss. Again, argh! It always does that. Oh well, gonna keep stabbing anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey kids, wassup. Wanna talk about magic? '
Bewitched
> the cool part of the world being enchanted is, well, it's enchanted. that's lovely! the downside is that demons want to eat your soul — 🎀 sonyasupposedly.com 🤖 (@sonyasupposedly) August 22,
Brutality of Life Reading List (12 Books)
Earlier this year I summed up the perpetual utilitarian lament: > Despite nigh-inestimable progress [https://rootsofprogress.org/smart-rich-and-free], the world is pervaded by suffering. An unimaginable amount of suffering. Trying
Multiplayer Psychosis
My friend Beau [https://beaugunderson.com/] suggested that I reflect on cyberpunk again, do an issue of Exolymph [https://www.exolymph.news/] for old time's sake. I've been pondering the
Thriverism
An exhortation in favor of vim, vigor, and verve.
Gathering Strength on the Horizon
One of my earliest job aspirations was advice columnist. The appeal remains, so I'm giving it a try [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUfVNPh8_tkoJ38LAXgteniQ_OhAIqmSvzoBRf002MrFVQVw/viewform] . First question: >
The Katechon
Stahlblau [https://twitter.com/Stahlblau4], memetics analyst at The Outpost [https://eltipicostahlblau.wordpress.com/], kindly contributed the following guest post about divinity and the End Times — or the After Times, or whatever grimly liminal
Survivalist Epistemology
On the existential politics of sorting through salience signals under uncertainty.
Impossibility Space
You find yourself on the brink, the cusp, the verge — frozen at the edge of a sheer cliff, peering over it. How discomfiting, to regard that long fall! And yet vertigo beckons. The void
Tough Crowds
Engaging with a semi-adversarial audience... from cringe humor to tech recruiters and back!
🅱️ig Announcement
In which Sonya quits her job to strike out on her own!
Civilizational Immune Systems
In a recent call to arms, software magnate Marc Andreessen remarked on widespread inability to respond swiftly, let alone appropriately, to the onset of pandemic: [...] the harsh reality is that it all failed — no
Human Nature Applied Virtually
In November, I'll be leading an online writing workshop called Friends as Force Multiplier [https://otherinter.net/workshops/fafm/], hosted by semi-enigmatic consultancy Other Internet [https://otherinter.net/]. FaFM will focus
Going Nowhere Fast
I collected moments of pathos (and gallows humor) from the comments section of this YouTube video: Chorus: I'm self-destructing No one can save me You asked me if I loved you
Instructions Unclear Online
My recent zine Instructions Unclear is available as a free PDF! Fair warning, the file is almost 200 megabytes. Now that you know what you're clicking on, here's the full,
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