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“Filling to fullness is not as good  as stopping at the right moment.  Over-sharpening a blade causes its edge to be lost. Line your home with treasures and you won’t be able to defend it. Amass possessions, establish positions, display your pride: Soon enough disaster drives you to your knees. This is the way of […]

Field of (Server/Electric Sheep) Dreams October 27, 2025. (Excerpt from The Red Shoes…) Build it and they will come. In this case, I am referring to elds full of servers, of buildings to house the servers, lled with air-conditioning systems to cool the servers, connected to the power grid, to power the servers. The elds

A Tribute to Arthur Firstenberg; “A Very Dangerous Man” When I heard of Arthur Firstenberg’s passing back in February, only days after his death, I felt all of the wind go out of me, as if someone had punched me in the gut. It was as if I viscerally felt the gaping hole his sudden

Fart Crimes (are coming, I’m not joking…) Warning this post makes judicious use of a four-letter F word (fart), reader discretion is advised.  Several years ago I bought a HEPA filter for my apartment, meant to filter for any airborne, toxic substance.  It quietly hummed in the background until it detected elevated levels of toxins

“Same ShiRt, Different Day” (or, Same Virus Narrative, Different Day) While backpacking through New Zealand in 2006, I met a young man staying at one of the hostels I’d checked into, wearing a shirt that read: “Same Shirt. Different Day.” And indeed I saw him wear that shirt multiple days in a row, a fact which

I have warned in my books that we are at risk of literally fulfilling a dystopian future as detailed in the 1999 “The Matrix” movie (yes the one with Keanu Reeves, doing some of his best work, which in my opinion involves as little talking or acting as possible).  Most of you will be familiar

Disease (He)X Marks the Spot Disease X, Clade X, Space X, Baby X, and Twitter/X… what’s with all the heXes?, you may well ask. And I’ve been asking myself the same question, because after a while so many X’s should arouse some suspicion amongst we, the subjugated masses.  While researching for my first book in

Servers Don’t Save Trees (they just serve the interests of our technological overlords)  I have always cared about the health of our natural environment, along with the health of the plants, animals and people it supports. In my 20s and 30s I read heaps of environmental magazines and engaged in a lot of environmental activism. I even

September 11, 2022 ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES That’s right everyone, killer tomatoes are REAL! Or at least “Tomato Flu” is—at least, according to our good friends at the CDC who would never, ever invent anything as crazy as killer “Tomato u”, would they? At the very least we can always count on the CDC’s

Herding of Humanity; Conditioning for the Coming Robot Takeover “Once the herd accepts mandatory vaccinations, it’s game over. They will accept anything— forcible blood or organ donation—‘for the greater good.’ We can genetically modify children and sterilize them—‘for the greater good.’ Control sheep minds and you control the herd. Vaccine makers stand to make billions.