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- Summer 2023
Hello non-existent readers. It is my pleasure to announce a new season of fungal growth is upon us. This year brings in guest writers, (soon to be announced) travels to be recounted, and new experiences that will inform all that is. This is the summer of intention. Times are tough,… Read more: Summer 2023 - Hall of Postmodern HorrorsThis post is to catalogue all of the worst examples postmodernism manifesting itself, in all of its empty, existentially terrifying, and ironic glory. Nothing Forever If you thought Seinfeld was about nothing, wait until you see this. Tasking an AI with generating endless Seinfeld seems like a punishment out of… Read more: Hall of Postmodern Horrors
- The Fermi Paradox as a Genesis StoryGod is dead for more people than ever before. In many ways this is liberating, but much ink has been spilt over the anxiety of being pushed adrift out into the hyper-modern marketplace of ideas. There were deep needs that most religions met. The task of providing these has been… Read more: The Fermi Paradox as a Genesis Story
- Fermi Paradox Solution: Grabby AliensSo: it turns out human life arose early. The universe’s clock has been running for 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, and some stars will live over five trillion years. Unless these stars (red dwarfs) aren’t habitable due to some mechanism we don’t yet understand, some other force must… Read more: Fermi Paradox Solution: Grabby Aliens
- Fermi Paradox Solution: The Dark ForestThe Dark Forest is a solution to the Fermi Paradox in which the absence of observable life is explained by a pressure towards cautious silence and a “shoot first ask questions never” type approach to first contact. So there’s this Chinese sci-fi book by the same name (this will be… Read more: Fermi Paradox Solution: The Dark Forest