Railguns, Kaiju, and the Quiet Logic of Japanese Engineering Here’s the thing. I live on the damp west side of the Cascades, where the rain is persistent but rarely dramatic, and where the natural world teaches you early that scale… Continue reading

Living in the Pacific Northwest, where old forests persist beneath layers of newer growth, I find it difficult not to think historically. Belief systems, like landscapes, are rarely erased; they are built over. Mithraism and early Christianity emerged from overlapping… Continue reading

Watching Agrippa’s Trilemma from a PNW Couch I was halfway through @notsoErudite’s “Another BRUTAL Christian Nationalism Debate” when the conversation detoured into Agrippa’s Trilemma. I live where ferry decks still double as seminar rooms, so I paused the video, grabbed… Continue reading

I was standing in line at Zeitgeist, rain ticking the window, when a Threads post scrolled past: “In 95% of war‑game scenarios, leading AIs used nukes at least once. None chose negotiation or surrender.” I felt the familiar click. This… Continue reading

Uploads, Brain Wires, and Who Gets Left Holding the Compost Bin I live in a part of the country where people will argue earnestly about espresso grind size and salmon runs in the same sentence. So when folks here start… Continue reading

I came across https://thebestsciencefictionbooks.com/best-science-fiction-by-women about 5 weeks ago. I had read much of the list, and had to pick up a few titles like “Her Smoke Rose Up Forever” by James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Bradley Sheldon), “Sarah Canary” by Karen… Continue reading