Technology
This category looks at the tools and breakthroughs reshaping how we live, from nanotech and AI to new materials that push the boundaries of what’s possible. Living in the Pacific Northwest, where innovation rubs shoulders with forests and salt air, I’m constantly struck by how quickly emerging tech moves from theory to something you can hold in your hand. These articles explore the science, the engineering, and the real‑world impacts behind the headlines, with an emphasis on clarity, skepticism, and the kind of curiosity that keeps us asking what comes next.
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When AI Answers the Wrong Question Perfectly
I picked this exchange up from the Facebook feed of a friend who posted a concise summary of why evolutionary biology remains one of the strongest and most thoroughly supported scientific frameworks in modern science. The post pointed to the… Continue reading
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The Strange Ecology of Confidence
This essay started, as so many unnecessary intellectual adventures do, with yet another Facebook argument. I was discussing probability with someone who seemed perfectly comfortable assigning numerical odds to things for which no probability model existed. Since one of my… Continue reading
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New Memes Repository
As new memes and remixes for Kevin are being created, they will also be added to a meme repository. You can find it on the main menu. Meme Remixes Original Memes All remixes and originals are free for reuse. Remix… Continue reading
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Propaganda Memes Bite Both Ways
One thing I notice, especially with so much exposure to social media, is that far too many people with strange agendas and very little imagination have turned to meme based propaganda as the primary vehicle for pushing a message. The… Continue reading
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A Posture Against Knowing
Hofstadter’s Diagnosis, Asimov’s Warning, and the Rise of Manufactured Doubt The rain here has a way of pressing thoughts closer together. You notice what people say about knowledge when the light goes flat. I keep returning to Richard Hofstadter, a… Continue reading
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What We Mean When We Say Consciousness
IIT, Orch-OR, and the quiet failure to isolate the subject I keep running into Integrated Information Theory (IIT) the way you run into tideflats at low tide in the Pacific Northwest. It is there, exposed, oddly structured, and somehow both… Continue reading
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Less Land, More Meaning
On the reshaping of global agriculture through social preference I picked up this paper the way I pick up a lot of things now, through a feed filter tuned to climate change and, more specifically, the secondary effects and the… 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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Specified Complexity and the Illusion of Measurement
How a Borrowed Vocabulary from Information Theory Masks Circular Reasoning in Arguments for Intelligent Design There is a familiar rotation in the arguments assembled against evolution and abiogenesis, a pattern that has repeated often enough over the last half century… Continue reading
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Figuring It Out on the Page
A Personal Approach to Prompts, Practice, and Creative Discipline I didn’t start out planning a 180‑day writing challenge. I started out annoyed at myself. I write science, atheism, politics, philosophy, history, and whatever personal obsessions happen to be in range… Continue reading
