velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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you can read between the lines at every hyperscaler, there’s appetite
Let him that hath understanding count the number of Mr Beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.
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01OCT24 / accessions
Stacking up books as if they’ll hide me from the oncoming winter… which, after a manner of speaking, they sort of might?
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29SEP24 / hamburg humbug
And of course, mere minutes after the weeknotes at Worldbuilding Agency were published, with their optimistic claim that this trip had been blessed by the infrastructure gods, my train from Hamburg to Copenhagen was cancelled mere minutes before it was due to depart. It’s not like I’ve not learned the risk of jinxing it, many…
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reach random people in a different way
It’s not that the Nineties are back, so much as that there are sufficient echoes thereof to cause one to hope for the enantiodromic inversion that they might be assumed to portend.