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ramadan
ramadan my world cannot sleep with the tinnitus of silence,my 3 am soaked in the rousing scent of lemon drops and apple cider vinegar that dress up the onion and watercress salad for the suhūr meal waiting in the kitchen, … Continue reading
Posted in general, poetry, politics, religion, science & technology
Tagged backward causality, dawn, destiny, drones, fasting, fate, imam, Islam, Laylatul Qadr, masjid, masque, missiles, mosque, Muslim, news, night, Night of Decree, peace, prayers, Qur'an, Ramadan, social media, suhur, supplications
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Fireflies: a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs
“….a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs….”* As a child, I used to chase and marvel at the fireflies twinkling in the night. As an adult, I now look at the fireflies as a glowing refutation of Charles … Continue reading
Posted in essay, music, nature, religion, science & technology
Tagged Adam Young, bioluminescence, Charles Darwin, creative evolution, disorder, entropy, evolution, fireflies, incandescent bulb, intelligent design, lightning bugs, Marc Branham, natural selection, order, Owl City, Radim Schreiber, Tsuneaki Hiramatsu
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elon’s basilisk
elon’s basilisk elon musk’s kid-size submarine is a no go it’s quite too late for the rescue, he could have been a roadster hero instead he’s nursing a bruised ego. he shrugs and smiles at any rate, the world is … Continue reading
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Tagged basilisk, Elon Musk, PowerPack, Roadster, SpaceX, useful narcissist, Wild Boar mini-submarine
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A Companion Reader to Babel Rising: Augmented Eternity
The fictional series, Babel Rising, written in the period 1998-1999, breathes of technologies that, at the turn of the century, were just about emerging. By now, in 2018, a lot of these technologies are almost ubiquitous already: large-screen video walls, Internet-enabled … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, augmented eternity, augmented intelligence, cyberwarfare, fake news, fake persona, false identities, Google Glass, Internet, Internet of Things, IoT, Singularity, technology, Year Million
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Babel Rising: 5 – In the evening
5 – In the evening In the evening, Salm fixed his room more tidy than usual, combed his hair longer in the mirror and was more particular with the choice of the pajama he put on, before he sat at … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, babel rising, blob, bugs and bytes, communicator, conciliation, database, deep learning, existence, fake persona, fiction, hackers, handshaking, Internet of Things, James Coburn, life, movies, netabase, network, Oopps Factor, Qualia, trolls, UniForce, videocon, viral missiles
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Babel Rising: 4 – At 4:00 am
4 – At 4:00 am At 4:00 am, Salm woke up with the ethereal feeling that the whole night sky was shining through the window. His tabletop, tilted 110o to face his bed, was glowing softly. It was strange that his … Continue reading
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Tagged a cappella, agony, AI, artificial intelligence, babel rising, chat, communicator, computer, continent, dance of the sugar plum fairy, database, e-mail, information, Internet, Internet of Things, linguist, longing, music, pablo neruda, peacekeeping, poetry, tabletop, tchaikovsky, technology, time zone, tower of babel
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Devora de Bris
Devora de Bris, she breaks her fast with dwindling hydrogen thrust, toasted titanium and a cracked cranium,