Category: Non Fiction
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Tragic Flaws and Best Qualities
This, my friend, is the truth. We are all walking contradictions, teetering on a knife-edge between brilliance and oblivion. The key is to remember, the ride is the point, not the destination. So, crank the dials, push the limits, but keep an eye on the flickering red lights on the control panel. This meat machine…
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Selling Shovels to Miners is Always a Winning Strategy
Scratchy black vinyl rasps a forgotten blues dirge as you stare into the roach-mottled motel mirror. Another gig economy hustle, another city bled dry. This time it’s pickaxes, not poems. Steel gleams under the flickering neon, each one a promise, a chimera – fortunes forged in the sweat of strangers or another dead end. The…
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Executables
A tweet, man, a tweet. It’s like jamming a rogue cartridge into your neural socket and hitting boot-up. Like jamming a rogue AI straight into your limbic system, a self-replicating packet of manipulative code disguised as a pithy remark or a link to some nightmare memeplex. Each one a microburst of dopamine, a carefully crafted…
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The Feedback Loop of Lesser Carnage: Revisited
The neon vacancy signs of the American Dream Motel pulsed a seductive binary: red or blue, a tawdry choice flickering on the screens of our simulated reality. The air hung heavy with the stale pheromones of manufactured consent, a breeding ground for a peculiar political foreplay. The tired hologram of democracy played out on reality…
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Ordinary Geniuses
In the wild cacophony of existence, there exists a peculiar truth, a paradox that dances on the fringes of sanity and embraces the chaotic rhythm of life. It’s the tale of genius, of brilliance that flickers like a flame in the dark, burning bright before being snuffed out by the mundane forces of mediocrity. It’s…
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Enter Byzantium
We’re entering the Byzantium era of the American empire We’re entering the Byzantine era of the American empire 1945-1991 Republic – Superpower with a conscience. – Cold War theatrics. – Pretend rules mattered. 1991-2024: Empire – Global sheriff, no oversight. – Power trip, overreach. – Cracks show, ignored them. 2024- : Hellenistic/Byzantium Era – Shift…
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Inelegant Futures
In likelier futures, where the trajectory of events bends not toward grandiose spectacle but toward the mundane grind, the intricate mechanisms that drive history reveal themselves as stupefying in their banality. Imagine, if you will, the vast, teeming complexities of bureaucratic machinery grinding away in some fluorescent-lit, windowless office in the bowels of a faceless…
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Kafka’s Protocols
The Tyranny Of Protocols The Kafkaesque protocol isn’t a dry manual, it’s a maddening dance on a pressure pad. Actions have cryptic meanings, dictated by unseen authorities. Just as K. struggles to navigate the labyrinthine court, producers and consumers in Kafka’s world fight to parse nonsensical messages, forever out of sync. The message payload, the…
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Lords of Scarcity
The zero-interest rate era was the golden age of bullshit—a financial acid trip where the laws of physics, economics, and basic human decency went out the window. It was like some mad billionaire handed out Monopoly money at a rave and told everyone they could fly. And boy, did they try. Instead of building rockets…
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Bill Joy’s Principle
In the grand theater of human folly, where ideologies are the gaudy costumes we wear to the masquerade of life, there’s a cruel little joke that most of us haven’t quite gotten. It’s the Culture War version of Bill Joy’s principle, and it goes something like this: no matter what your banner says, no matter…