just-so stories - Sonya Supposedly

examining/ Dec 2021 /6 min read

Rearview Mirror

I'm never satisfied, but nonetheless I'm at peace.

examining/ Dec 2020 /2 min read

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? '

just-so stories/ Oct 2020 /3 min read

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,

examining/ Jul 2020 /19 min read

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

religion/ Jul 2020 /6 min read

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

examining/ Jun 2020 /7 min read

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

just-so stories/ May 2020 /3 min read

Smoke From All Around

Watching livestreamed riots last night, fire and mayhem in fuzzy rectangles, I thought of Don Henley's 1985 hit [https://genius.com/Don-henley-all-she-wants-to-do-is-dance-lyrics]: "

just-so stories/ Apr 2020 /4 min read

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