001776

In a rare conversation last night with an unusually-minded friend over dinner, we explored two topics: duplication and technology. I argued that it’s unethical to deliver the findings of science to modern societies because they will weaponize nearly...

001777

“…but, what they are doing isn’t actually virtuous, it merely and everywhere »mimics virtues? What led to this?” — infraheard

001779

“But suppose on some planets something interfered with this game, and some of the aliens who used to be like all the other forms of life on their world diverged from the signal and started following »something else. These hapless creatures no longer had access...

001780

“Some corporation calling itself The United States charged me $(everything) for stuff that didn’t happen. Technicians claimed it was a ‘feature’ and that the user agreement had been implied by my consent to bear a name.” — an anonymous...

001782

Like the fireflies, it dares to illumine itself for an instant, in language, which its direst antipathy.