What

there are paint smears on everything i own -Danzig Did you ever hear the story about the city man out in the country? And he sees this fella sittin’ on his porch. So he says, “Mister, could you tell me how I could get back to town?” The fella says, “No.” “Well, could you tell […]

Gold

the laws we thought were fixed (melting, decay, disintegration) are actually contingent on rhythm, not force. And if endurance is governed by phase alignment, why not motion? A new study from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has overturned a long-held assumption in thermodynamics: that solids inevitably melt when pushed past a so-called “entropy catastrophe” threshold. Using […]

Thermo

The laws of thermodynamics, simply stated, are as follows: 1. Zeroth Law: If system A is in thermal equilibrium with system B, and system B is in thermal equilibrium with system C, then A and C are also in thermal equilibrium. This establishes temperature as a meaningful and transitive concept.2. First Law: Energy cannot be […]

Look

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you. (…) Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat […]

Audit

—- Fermilab’s Muon g‑2 experiment set out to measure, with unprecedented precision, how much a muon “wobbles” when placed in a magnetic field—a phenomenon captured by its anomalous magnetic moment. According to quantum electrodynamics (QED), this wobble reflects the sum total of quantum fluctuations around the muon: virtual particles, vacuum polarization effects, and higher-order loop […]

Anistrophy

A tuned mass damper (TMD) is a device used in structures—such as skyscrapers, bridges, and even spacecraft—to reduce unwanted oscillations caused by wind, earthquakes, or other dynamic forces. It works by attaching a secondary mass to the main structure, connected by springs and dampers in such a way that its natural frequency matches the target […]

FOG

Anthropologists use the “guilt–shame–fear” spectrum to describe the primary emotional lever a society relies on to keep people in line. Ruth Benedict popularized the idea in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, contrasting America’s inward-looking “guilt culture” with Japan’s more relational “shame culture.” In the now-standard formulation, guilt cultures motivate compliance by cultivating an inner sense […]

Fermi

—- This essay traces the evolution of a radical reframing of quantum computation from its inception in the Twin Quantum Computing (TQC) whitepaper to a fully elaborated experimental and mathematical program grounded in philosophical insight. We begin by examining TQC’s core claim: that reliable information processing can arise not from brittle, isolated qubits but from […]

OMG, inc.

We will have a media department. Inspired by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and in honor of them and in the name of transparency, OMG inc will produce high quality content regarding the background and removal of candidates within 24 hours of mission completion. The world will know, within 24 hours, who and why and […]

Top

Tying and Detangling Topology, from the Greek topos (place) and logos (study), originally named the mathematical field concerned with properties preserved through deformation—those essential patterns that remain unbroken even when stretched, twisted, or compressed. Yet beneath its surface lies a deeper, almost mythic resonance: the art of understanding how forms persist, adapt, and relate amid […]

Endurance

Because Zimoun’s “186-prepared-DC-motors” pieces use the same kind of small brushed motors you find in toys or window-shade rollers, we can take the published figures for those devices as a realistic yard-stick. A typical 130-size hobby motor draws about 70 mA with no load at 6 V and 250 mA under the light mechanical load […]

Abstract

That everybody present should know what thinking is and what is abstract is presupposed in good society, and we certainly are in good society. The question is merely who thinks abstractly. Who thinks abstractly? The uneducated, not the educated. Good society does not think abstractly because it is too easy, because it is too lowly— […]

Ulysses

Mercator and heterochronic shortcuts This is the point beyond the limitations of selfhood-as-possession or as a retrievable “core.” The katabasis isn’t the hero fetching a private identity from the underworld like some dropped coin; it is the realization that identity itself is the coherence of inherited forms in motion, a lived convergence of mythic, ethical, […]