precision that lets you fly munition after munition down a *specific* ventilation shaft is amazing.

from Accelerando. we can do this now with iPhones but it's less cool and science-fictional than having an implant under your fingertip.

they're putting me here on Monday

Real life is participatory by default. On the Internet, lurking is the default. Much to think about.

So much of this life is just following up

With art, people don't remember the parts that make sense. They remember the parts that are inexplicable.

good morning

soon

tomcritchlow.com/2025/06/27/tak…

“the wicked flee where no man pursueth” — many similar such patterns

The Dark Ages happened. Population, urban population, economic activity & specialization collapsed. The art looks like shit. The coins are coarse and ugly. There are no written records. It was a local collapse of civilization and historians are wrong to deny it.

This year is the sunniest winter I have experienced. It's great.

It's always the little things like this that cascade into multi-day outages, and always if you try to allocate time to fixing it you're told you're impractical, move fast etc.

I can't buy a Dyson sphere but I can buy a Dyson hair dryer.

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