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There’s a part of me that cares about the future plight of the world.
Then there’s a part of me that just wants a goddamn game console that works without requiring a blood sacrifice.
Also, I love technology, not as much as you, you see, but I still love technology, always and forever. Except when I [...]
And We Need It To Stay Out There
Seen monsters aren’t monsters. They’re neighbors, however temporary. Monsters are guerilla, unseen, opportunistic. They stay shrouded in potential. Where Lorentz had it for relativistic contraction based on inertial frames, these things enjoy a distortion wrought from awareness frames.
This is why we still delight in [...]
They announced names. I listened.
“No, that’s not me.”
“That’s not me, either.”
This went on for the few days I was called in. Until Wednesday, the 27th.
They announced names. I listened.
“No, that’s not me.”
“That’s not me, eith–wait, that is me.”
“These jurors should go to lunch, and report back at 1:25.”
I didn’t leave. I told everyone I could [...]
I’m on jury duty. I’ve been waiting for years for this opportunity. Honestly. I know it’s not 12 Angry Men or Law & Order: Melodrama Unit; that’s not what I want. What do I want? I’ll tell you.
I want to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with people I don’t know, who’ve been assembled [...]
When it’s a commodity like connectivity to the internet, which in itself is not demonstrably injurious, you’ll be hard pressed to achieve solidarity in your bid for personal discipline. That is, “I’m a slosh of a ‘net user, and I have a dream to write gratuitously violent children’s slasher stories, so I need to focus” [...]
The Other Time Bandits
I whore my attention out to any enterprise no matter how dull its flash or shallow its mapping to what I consider my core interests. I have considered this at excruciating and ironically protracted length, and hypothesized enough ways that I suck to fill, like, a big thing where you’d all, [...]
The Pathfinders
Of all the memes wriggling across The One True Web (that social network that includes and exceeds the digital), I suggest that the greatest compels some to describe helpful normative domains, and compels others to seek such out.
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