Not uninspired by the Sisyphus55 video of the same title, and heading to streaming before year end as part of Gold. We talk more about the context in the end.
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At the gate of the final year in Goettingen
This is not quite an Aperiodical, but I make a note ahead of — both scheduled and now, open to, surprising — changes.
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“One Question To Ask Nature”
Last night at Liffey Toastmasters table topics I was invited to respond to the prompt, “Say if you can ask nature one question and get a definite answer, what would your question be?” Thematically, the evening gathering was titled “0th Law of Robotics” with a tint of discussion over trends in AI and thinking machines (Herbert). This is the flushed out version of my response for the record.
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[Archive] FW’s 2013 Three-Line Love Letters
Around October 2013 Shandong Exp. High School ran a three-line love letter competition … it’s still a popular format of literature in East Asia today. The following images were my entries, recovered from a 2014 backup hard drive, which I am currently exploring before its retirement.
Over the next weeks I will attempt to remake them (alongside the English translations) with my since-evolved typographical style.
Chronologically, during the summer holiday before, I’d discovered Space Engine 0.97, and you can see it bleeding into these, and working its way to inspire an eventual physicist’s imagination.
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An Illusory Human Common Sense
I condemn in the strongest terms the recent heinous act where an IDF Soldier fired into a tent classroom in a refugee camp, killing Ritaj Abdul Raouf Rihan (9). Another crime against humanity in occupied Palestine in the long conflict committed by the Zionist regime.
My friends at Researcher 4 Palestine are working hard as part of the international effort to restore the educational system in Gaza. You can read more about that here.
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