I often think about the phrase “Strange things happen at the one two point,” in relation to the idea of humans meeting other kinds of minds. It’s a proverb that arises out of the culture around the game GO, and it means that you’ve hit a situation, a combination of factors…
This is the only piece I got to write for grinding.be: all I need add is that the fallout from various Middle Eastern conflicts continues to cause harm, Western governmental surveillance demands are increasing in both scope and sophistication, the radicals…
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…
A good deal of our remit, over here, is to talk about many of the themes of the fringes of things…
This is a re-release of my essay It’s Not A War, It’s A Rescue Mission — originally published on the now defunct website, Grinding.be, March 7th, 2011.
Also available in this PDF version — (thanks lizbt!)
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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…
Where The Buddleia Grows is a talk I gave on 2 April 2016ce at the Spirits Of Place…