001811

“At the group level, especially at the large group level, our species is entirely ‘captured’ by a vast library of processes that are, effectively, malware. Before our modern societies arose, this was still true, but the forms were slightly less...

001812

“The joke’s on us. I mean Area 51 is a trivial side-project compared to how actually weird timespace is. It’s filled with intelligences that only science-fiction authors were courageous enough to try to imagine. But even they didn’t imagine...

001813

“The actual reason that humans adore babies and very young creatures is as shocking as it is unnoticed: organisms that are newly-embodied radiate the energies and memories of their origin. They are, in a sense, still half-alien. Or half-angel. Or both and more....

001814

“From many angles the onset of the shadow vastly precedes contact with the bird that is generating it. The shadow may ’emerge’ from anywhere, and flit past at ‘impossible’ speeds. With birds, you may never see the bird. Or find it. In...

001815

When do the living places of Earth get a moment to rest from the endless assaults of the nations, corporations and factories? If the Earth is either a being, or simply an arrangement of environmental organs, the present scale of human assault upon it »must become a...