daniel.industries

Illustration by Resource Database The first chamber was larger than the second. Wren heard and felt the pneumatic doors close behind them and was careful to place one foot next to the other, in a stable stance, and took hold of the handrails. They felt their boots lock onto the walkway. The loud, mechanical horn blared its single warning and clouds of thin white mist filled the room. Wren stared straight ahead but could see in the peripheral vision possible through their helmet’s visor the…

I finished Accelerated Growth Environment a couple of days ago. I enjoyed it. It is a good length–sometimes a too-long story can result in a DNF for me–but the first third is pretty slow and then from the end of the slow part it is very fast, to the point I saw the progress indicator and wondered how it was going to wrap up (what I actually thought was “This book must have almost no falling action,” which is basically true). It also didn’t wrap in any particularly clever way, which isn’t a…

Gustave Thibon, in the intro to Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil. I’m assuming the quotes are Simone, and have italicized them. Creation reflects God by its beauty and harmony, but, through the evil and death which abide in it and the blind necessity by which it is governed, it also reflects the absence of God. We have issued from God: that means that we bear his imprint and it means also that we are separated from him. The etymology of the word to exist (to be placed outside) is very…

I’ve made reference lately in my notes and in conversation to the “capitalist mill” as in “grist for the capitalist mill”1. I would give specific examples but the symptoms as they concern me are already topics of all the posts: inability to focus, social division, lack of meaningful productivity, everything getting worse, producing things of value long-since devalued, platforms instead of products, content instead of art… But sure, it’s probably my fault for not meditating more. Cozy is having…

I quote-tweeted Cory Doctorow’s Mastodon post linking to his Comrade Trump post. I quoted this part: Ebikes are insanely great technology. Cheap, rugged and reliable, they’re basically bicycles that abolish hills. Once you’ve gotten accustomed to an ebike – maybe you’ve invested in a folding helmet and a raincoat – you’ll never go back. The advantages of an ebike commute over a car commute are legion, but my favorite little pleasure is the ability to easily make a stop at a nice coffee shop…

Went to a volleyball tournament Friday-today. I’m too tired to write about it. Here are some photos. But mostly it was: That girl is tired.