Thomas Pynchon Is Angry […] one detects a writer who has finally lost patience with Americans’ persistent failure to understand the obvious consequences of their own country’s actions. via Reddit i read Gravity’s Rainbow last year. Pynchon’s relevance is so profound as to be deafening. i have V and Lot 49 on the shelves, i […]
Category Archives: cool stuff
Why do people listen to this shit?
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
The Hatred of Podcasting Shows like this have a flow that the listener doesn’t actually participate in—the hosts have gone home, you’re the only one in the room, and it’s a dead conversation that’s already happened—but, given the intimacy of how the product is consumed, can get the same psychic impression. On your commute, while […]
Xenotext
Saturday, June 14, 2025
It Awaits Your Experiments. Because now it’s 2025, and he fucking did it. The Xenotext is live and glowing in Deinococcus radiodurans: iterating away inside that immortal microbial bad-ass that feeds on stainless steel, that resides inside the core of reactor no. 4 at Chernobyl, that does not die in the explosion that disintegrates the […]
Security? Politics? Life?
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Rational Astrologies and Security In 2003, [Bruce] Schneier coined the term security theater to describe security measures that provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it. […] There is another non-security way that designers can spend their security budget: on making their own lives easier. Many of these […]
interplanetary neurosurgery
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn The practice of neurosurgery on Saturn is almost identical to the one practiced on Earth. Because the art of practice of Medicine was transferred by homo sapiens sapiens “exearthed” 30 years ago from Earth to Saturn. […] These cases give us the means of reflection to improve the practice of […]
the fascination index
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Jon Bois’ REFORM! Bois also criticizes the whole practice of pigeonholing voters into two established categories, of forcing people to have to reduce themselves, essentialize their political views. He criticizes the aforementioned political compass charts. It is reminiscent of Edouard Glissant’s idea of the ‘right to opacity.’ Bois destroys and humiliates this essentialization, this hijacking […]
Cormac McCarthy on language and the subconscious
Monday, July 8, 2024
The Kekulé Problem: where did language come from? Language can be used to sum up some point at which one has arrived—a sort of milepost—so as to gain a fresh starting point. But if you believe that you actually use language in the solving of problems I wish that you would write to me and […]
