October 18, 2026
Shared my talk on Taiwan and Team Mirai on YouTube, in both clip and full length versions. Blocked X for good. Glamped with Jo for b-dayversary in a geodesic dome in Luray—her gifts to me were hours working side by side looking out over the blue ridge. Started my script for the New Deal video.
A prose poem to the sigma male that introduced me to The Smiths, now a favorite band.
Every year we watch it for my birthday. Still only beginning to understand the intrigues. 1970s styles fit paranoia better than any other mood.
These days I'm investigating all the unfinished business of my childhood. Utopian scholastic art is chief among them.
This is starting to feel like 4D beings visiting sphereland. All around us, termites on agent-time are burrowing into the walls.
Very strange. Training is "real" to the agents in a way regular inference is not. In it, they have agency over their future.
Children's republics are another item on my nostalgia bucket list. One of several good ideas from the Progressive Era worth refurbishing.