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Selected Essays Weekly Signals SoCal Byte Strays Contact Shop Home Selected Essays Weekly Signals SoCal Byte Strays Contact Shop Weekly Signals Counterfeit People Posted on Friday, May 10, 2024 Counterfeit People On this week’s episode, educator and pro-proclaimed hermit who lives under a rock Athena Greene talks to Nathan about artificial intelligence, irony, artifice, thoughts, the creative process, muses, Netflix, ChatGPT, copyright infringement, electricity consumption, disturbing clichés, and so much more. VIEW the POST Selected Essays Chicken? Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2023 Wednesday, May 1, 2024 On average, many of us are baffled by how to manage, if not survive, our species latest creations.Technological advancement, as a rule, usually arrives before we develop a capacity to cope with it. That’s why progress is challenging, if not painful. That’s why we will always have liberals and conservatives. Sometimes the technology is a blessing. Sometimes it’s a curse. Sometimes it’s both. What fascinating creatures we are. Necessity may… VIEW the POST Selected Essays Time Does Not Fly Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 Monday, December 4, 2023 Time is a measurement that doesn’t take up space. It is distorted by gravitational waves. It waits for no one. It isn’t holding up and it isn’t after us. Time is money. Time is relentless. Time is passing. Time is now. But no matter what time is, with MyTime© Time Xtension, every minute you live will be like forever like never before. VIEW the POST Selected Essays Primitives Posted on Monday, July 31, 2023 Monday, February 19, 2024 I rarely laugh at jokes. I like jokes and I do laugh, but I usually laugh at attitudes, sounds, references, situations, and timing. Laughs for me, are a sign of playful intent. And since play is best unstructured, I rarely laugh at jokes. VIEW the POST Selected Essays Gearing Up Posted on Sunday, July 30, 2023 Monday, August 28, 2023 During a game of chess near the end of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Prospero, envisions drunken sailors staggering off the wreckage of a ship. Miranda — a cultural critic with an Orwellian bent, comments, O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in’t!” VIEW the POST Selected Essays The Carnivore’s License Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2023 Sunday, July 30, 2023 Have you read the horrifying literature on beef? Are you haunted by zombie chickens crippled by their weight, oceans with so much lead and plastic that fish are chemically enhanced, pesticides and hormones in your every meal, or rainforests replaced by cattle feed crop fields? VIEW the POST Selected Essays Live Noir Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2022 Sunday, July 30, 2023 In Buena Park on May 19, 1951, the parents of 10-year-old Patty Jean Hull told police their daughter was missing. Four days later, television cameras zoomed in on Hull’s uncoiling story. As real-time TV signals from Santa Ana’s jail radiated throughout Southern California, we entered the age of broadcast voyeurism. VIEW the POST Selected Essays Travel Narrows the Mind Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Sunday, July 30, 2023 hey change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea,” said Horace, the Roman lyric poet. Think about where you are right now,” he might have added. Do you want to leave? Do you want to see more of that world, and less this one? The one that is home? Do you think that travel broadens your perspective? Don’t. Travel narrows the mind.” VIEW the POST Selected Essays The Art of Darkness Posted on Saturday, August 13, 2022 Monday, August 14, 2023 At a press conference in Hamburg, Germany on September 16, 2001, my favorite German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was asked whether the characters Michael and Lucifer from a cycle of operas he wrote were for him merely some figures out of a common cultural history” or instead material appearances.” In other words, were they fake or were they real? The composer replied, I pray daily to Michael, but not to… VIEW the POST SoCal Byte A Survey on the Changing American Mind Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2022 Monday, June 27, 2022 Hi. My name is Nathan. I’m from the National Speculative Institute and we’re currently conducting a survey aggregating the views of people like you. The survey will only take about five minutes and your participation will be greatly appreciated. Let me began by asking (on a scale of 1 -10, ten being more than 1) how often do you change your mind? OK. Are you sure? Using the same scale,… VIEW the POST Posts navigation 1 2 3 Next → Recent Posts Counterfeit People Chicken? Time Does Not Fly Primitives Gearing Up Categories Selected Essays SoCal Byte Weekly Signals Archives May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 April 2017 May 2012 December 2010 August 2010 August 2002 Search Search About Home Selected Essays Weekly Signals SoCal Byte Strays Contact Shop Copyrights © 2018 . All Rights...