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Bent, Broken Scales
A descent into fractal wrongness, where every denial of evidence demands a deeper denial of reality itself Fractal Wrongnessnoun DSM (Provisional, not recognized):Fractal Wrongness Syndrome (FWS)Diagnostic Criteria:A. Persistent adherence to claims demonstrably contradicted by established empirical evidence.B. When confronted with… Continue reading
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MAVEN, Still Orbiting the Silence
A Veteran of the Red Planet, the work it did, the quiet way it ended, and the atmosphere it left behind for us to understand MAVEN never had leading‑man looks. It was all angles and panels, practical shoes in deep… Continue reading
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The Retirement That Never Arrives
Or the career that never quite begins I’m retired. That already puts me in a strange minority, like someone who caught the last ferry before the schedule was quietly canceled. I did well. Better than well. Enough to step off… Continue reading
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When the Stopwatch Replaces the Stratigraphic Column
Fossilization, Misdirection, and the Quiet Order of the Rocks Facebook and Threads are an endless buffet of unsupported assertions, eccentric opinions, and the occasional gem that accidentally teaches you something by being wrong in an interesting way. Most of it… Continue reading
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Forgive me… it was the only way to make the 4th of July line work.
I hope the inclusiveness makes it better. Continue reading
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Where the Heat Goes
Underwater data centers, hidden costs, and the stories we tell when systems look solved Data centers have slipped into the center of the environmental conversation in a way that feels almost sudden, but isn’t. For years they’ve been background infrastructure,… Continue reading
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Declared Dead, Still Living
Bayesian inference, bureaucratic power, and the quiet logic that makes the unthinkable thinkable It is not the number that unsettles me. Two point seven million is a rhetorical object long before it is a statistic. What matters is the claim… Continue reading
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Willful Blindness: The Quiet Mechanics of Deliberate Ignorance
From Compliance Failures to Creationism, How Choosing Not to Know Becomes a Strategy for Dodging Science, Responsibility, and the Law “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”(Daniel J. Boorstin, “The Discoverers,” 1983) I… Continue reading
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Naming the Conclusion: How “Specified Functional Integrated Complexity” Presupposes Design
When Jargon Repackages Old Arguments and Calls It Evidence Another essay, courtesy of that endless proving ground for half‑formed arguments and polished certainties: the Facebook comment thread. There’s something almost reliable about it now. You scroll past a familiar prompt,… Continue reading
