Cafe Bedouin
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This is my show. It’s a blog as hupomnemata. Michael Foucault defined hupomnemata as a personal notebook similar to a spiritual journal but with a different goal. He did not want “to pursue the unspeakable, nor to reveal the hidden, nor to say the unsaid [like a spiritual journal does], but on the contrary to capture the already said, to collect what one has managed to hear or read, and for a purpose that is nothing less than the shaping of the self.”
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I do eleven holds on this rotation and Vane is the one I look forward to, which is not a thing I would put in a packet. They feed you. That is most of it. But they also have a bay that works, and after four holds where the mass officer is a man on rotation from somewhere else who last touched a plate two terms ago,...
I. Herein Verick considered himself a fortunate man and saw no reason his friends should think otherwise. He had said as much to Whereas that morning in the queue outside the bay, watching the ring fill for the panels. “My wife wants for nothing.” Not a boast. An accounting. “She has her berth, her name in the...
Rina wakes before the bell and lies still, reading her. Anna sleeps on her back, one hand curled near her chin. Everyone born down here sleeps like that, nothing like the training reels. Her breath is shallow and fast. It has been getting faster for a week, and Rina knows it the way she knows the fans in their...
Working title. A near-future hard-SF setting for a short story collection. What this is A shared world, not a plot. Eleven modules, each deriving from the ones before it, ending in a kit for making individual stories. Nothing here is a premise on its own; everything here is a condition stories happen inside. The...
In July 2026, Linus Torvalds told the Linux kernel mailing list that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that anyone who objected could fork the code or walk away. The trigger was Sashiko, an automated review system whose published numbers claim it finds 53.6 percent of the bugs that later required human fixes —...
Track Parody of Sympathy of the Devil with the song protagonist being the Unabomber Prompt I’d like to do a parody of the Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil, but making the protagonist the Unabomber and having the lyrics reflect that A.I. is going to undermine future human cognitive ability. Venue is suno.com....
A one-sheet on posture toward the people around you The principle, and its known failure Jon Postel wrote it for computers talking to each other: send strictly correct output, accept anything you can reasonably interpret. It let a fragile early internet work despite everyone’s software being slightly wrong....
On why making things requires other people, and what kind of people, and how A nine-year-old writes a rap for a rap battle. She’s rapping about turtles. Her sister is rapping about dogs. She wants to read her rap to the family but she’s embarrassed — they might laugh. Her mom reads both raps aloud instead, in a...
On KPop Demon Hunters and the limits of self-acceptance In KPop Demon Hunters, a girl group called HUNTR/X plays sold-out stadiums by day and holds a magic barrier against demons by night. Their leader, Rumi, is hiding that she is half demon herself. The film is smarter about shame than almost anything else made for...
You can tell when someone in a room is about to cry. Not from anything they’ve said. Something in the breathing, a stillness that arrived a beat too early, the angle at which they’re holding their face. You knew before you knew you knew. There are books about this — acting manuals, clinical guides, shelves of...
Someone told me that a classmate of his died partway through the year, in middle school. What he remembers, decades later, is that no one sat in the boy’s lunch chair. That’s the whole memory. Not the boy — the chair. Nobody decided this. No teacher announced a mourning period, no group of twelve-year-olds voted to...
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