American Fascism 2– Is the United States Fascist?
Part 1 Part 2 In Part 1, I discussed the four political impulses– communalism, libertarianism, republican democracy, and fascism– that seem to be the base elements of which more complex ideologies are...
View ArticleIdle Rich Are the Best Rich. Here’s Why.
The college-admissions cheating scandal of 2019 has provided plenty of opportunities for schadenfreude at the expense of the lower-upper class: hangers-on and minor celebrities who needed a bit of lift...
View ArticleCan “fuck” function as all eight parts of speech in an 8-word sentence? A...
Coming soon: an update on the status of my novel in progress, Farisa’s Crossing. Is Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. a valid English sentence? As stated, that’s not a very interesting question....
View ArticleTwo Updates
I’ve updated the rules document for Ambition. I detected, after running some simulations, some simplifications to scoring that can be made without materially affecting the game. Barring extreme and...
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A Computational Understanding of ZFC Set Theory
When I first encountered the ZFC set theory axioms, the notion that they in particular should be the foundation of mathematics struck me as not making a great deal of sense. What was this Axiom of...
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How I Would Fix (and End) Game of Thrones [Spoiler Warning]
My first novel, Farisa’s Crossing, is on track for serialization beginning April 26, 2020, with the full book available by January 17, 2021. (Minor editing for clarity was made on the morning of May...
View ArticleProjected Release Dates for Farisa’s Crossing
I’m serializing Farisa’s Crossing. Conceptually, the story divides neatly into five segments: The Forest, The City, The Road, The Dead; and The Lovers. The first segment will be available on Amazon for...
View ArticleA Killing in Menlo Park: Qin Chen’s Death and the Need for Justice
Qin Chen, a 38-year-old software engineer working at Facebook, jumped to his death from a high building on September 19, 2019. One might say that, in proximate terms, the death was a suicide. I’m...
View Article“Eat The Babies”
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a town hall on October 3 at which an ostensibly mentally ill woman demanded, as a solution to climate change, “we got to start eating babies”. AOC, who has...
View ArticleFarisa’s Crossing Final Round Beta Reading
On January 3, 2020, I’ll be opening up a round of beta reading for Farisa’s Crossing. Since I intend this to be the last round I do– I would like to begin serialization in April 2020, with the entire...
View ArticleTechxit (Part 1 of 2)
(For Part 2, go here.) Nazis are bad. This is going to be a plot point, much later in this essay, so if you weren’t aware of the fact, write it down: Nazis are bad. Chapter 1: A Kind of Reckoning Some...
View ArticleTechxit (Part 2 of 2)
If you haven’t read Part 1, please do so. The story I’m in the process of telling is not one to enter in the middle. It is too strange for that–– it becomes nigh-unbelievable the scrupulous accounting...
View ArticleWelcome To My World. I’m Sorry That You’re Here.
I had a mild bout of flu in February 2008. I’d had worse flus, and I have had worse since then. I was a 24-year-old with no health issues; I recovered quickly. What made this infection notable was...
View ArticleYes, Under Corporate Capitalism, 8 Million Working Americans Are Likely To...
An assertion I have made recently has drawn controversy. I have said that, in the wake of COVID–19, we’ll likely see 8 million American workers become unemployably disabled for a long period of time––...
View ArticleCapitalism–19 Vs. Humanity–20
Societies around the world face a horrible decision, as a deadly coronavirus rages through the population. Do they continue with economic business-as-usual, and allow tens of millions of preventable...
View ArticleA COVID–19 False Dilemma
Political leaders like Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are trying to force the American people to choose one of two unacceptable alternatives: Fast Kill: do nothing about the virus’s spread,...
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Quitting WordPress – April 30, 2020
I’ve gotten several complaints about ads on my blog. When I set this thing up in 2009, I didn’t know much about the web— I’m an AI programmer, web stuff I do when there’s a reason to do it— and I used...
View ArticleApex 2 @ 12:58
Donald Trump has been admitted to Walter Reed because of COVID–19 and, at the moment of my writing this, most if not all of this nation’s corporate and economic elite have retreated into their...
View ArticleLife Update 11/21/20: Farisa’s Crossing, et al
I’m still trying to figure out the matter of my online presence (including, to be frank, whether I want to have one at all). For now, I’m still on Substack. I’ll be mirroring these posts on WordPress;...
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