Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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ORIGAMY: Synthetic Biology Fiction
So I’m a bunch of the way through Rachel Armstrong’s ORIGAMY now, and here’s the thing: There’s a field of rogue mutant hair transplants, and the hair field is grazed upon by a trip of transgenic goats, and there’s like five pages on the digestive processes of these goats, including shoals of microsquid that live…
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BLACK EDGE
BLACK EDGE, by Sheelah Kolhatkar, is the story of Steve Cohen, financial wizard and insider-trading pirate, his weird life and the strange, damaged people who fell into his wake because of the riches he brought with him. And the fucked-up financial policing system in America. Ever watch that show BILLIONS? You know, the one which opened with…
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State Of The Connection
I neither like nor trust Facebook, but I’m using it again, partly to examine it once more, partly because I think they’ve probably won the current cycle of net-based communications. Most of my other messaging apps have become wastelands. Whether they call it a necessity or an addiction, 99% of people operate a FB account…
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Fifty
Yeah, I turned fifty last week. Might as well memorialize it here in my journal. Below is the photo I took that day as I walked into town for a glass of wine and a stop at the food hall. Which, I guess, looks as bleak as most of the photos I take. But the…
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Recent Quotes 17feb18
Xefirotarch makes vampire architecture. The reasons for this go beyond the now well-known series of incidents at the group’s recent SF MoMA show, during which, over consecutive days in the spring of 2006, several children were left bleeding and traumatized by their encounters with the installation. Each claimed to have been “bitten” by its forms,…
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REQUIREMENTS 18feb18
Figuring out a way to make LinkedIn rebuild and expand my network and contacts list, i.e. the only thing it was ever good for Learning how to see the future again A Hunter satchel from Peg & Awl. (I don’t require one, but they look awfully nice, and I don’t currently have a good day…
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Reblog, Or: Little Radio Stations In The Night
On my newsletter last weekend, I wrote this: Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to go full-bore blog again, like in the old days. Twitter’s only real use is as a notification system, after all, so you’d just pump out post links to it from your blog. You know, the way people used to,…
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