Anomalous Engineering

You Just Wait

“Welcome to the world, 2116”

Seeing Through The Debris

Towards a bootstrapped postmodern hermeneutics

This post is mirrored on my blog thejaymo.net here.

On Adaptable Modes of Thought

-Human Dignity-

The other day I got a CFP for “the future of human dignity,” and it set me down a path thinking.

We’re worried about shit like mythical robots that can somehow simultaneously enslave us and steal the…

On the European Union’s “Electronic Personhood” Proposal

In case you were unaware, last Tuesday, June 21, Reuters put out an article about an EU draft plan regarding the designation of so-called robots and artificial intelligences as “Electronic Persons.” Some of you’d think I’d be all…

Spirits Of Place: Where The Buddleia Grows

Where The Buddleia Grows is a talk I gave on 2 April 2016ce at the Spirits Of Place…

Welcome To The Churn

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A Present Worth Thinking About

+Excitation+

As I’ve been mentioning in the newsletter, there are a number of deeply complex, momentous things going on in the world, right now, and I’ve been meaning to take a little more time to talk about a few of them. There’s the fact…

Go to hell, Bobby Jindal.

The xenophobia and/or naked opportunism of US government officials in the wake of the recent attacks in Paris (I’d say, “and Beirut”, if I thought some of these cretins could find Lebanon using Google Maps) — from CIA Director John Brennan and Senator Ted Cruz to anencephalic…