Writing

Pepe Silvia wouldn't hit so hard if some major company conspiracies weren't real.

The good lord would not have given me this 25 ton hydraulic splitter if I weren’t meant to cut up some logs.

Analysis whilst avoiding nemesis.

Improving a situation by rubbing some monads on it.

Slamming your fingers in the car door of life.

Maybe the O’Reilly Twisted book should have used a Rat King instead.

No, no. Dig up stupid.

Or: on the Hazards of Narrative Arc

The internet is a big truck. It’s really hard to drive it backwards.

The arc of history is long and bends towards totally different forms of brutality.

Fully automated and weaponized ambiguity is, somehow, overrated.

Confusion about falsifiability through the ages.

How to avoid having your house egged.

cf. Betteridge’s law of headlines.

The original essay. The talk is better these days.

Trying to impart my share of angular momentum to the singularity flywheel.

The Archives

I think that’s the good stuff. But I have been writing on the internet for a long time. It hasn’t been all bangers.