An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

I can almost taste it being cool enough for me to break out the clothes I really like, instead of cycling through black tee-shirts and the same two light-weight sweaters.

This isn’t a new problem: the United States has had a problem with land speculation since its founding. Even without the genocidal settler-colonial project, this would be a problem: even if we acce...

These are good, but this is less than I like posting. I really wish that I had something else that was really pressing to write an article on, because I’m almost done with Gravity’s Rainbow and I...

Okay, this is about AI, but it’s not about AI-the-actually-existing-technology (more properly called LLMs or Generative Pre-Trained Transformers, etc.), nor is it about the portrayal of artificial int...

In the immortal words of They Might Be Giants, “Time / Is marching on / And time / Is still marching on,” so here we are, I guess.

One could see the Zone as the last preserve of dragons – it used to be that the edges of the map were full of sea serpents, from world-circling Jormungandr all the way down to the smaller examples tha...

It seems to me that the emphasis on cycles is a kind of replacement for the various cycles that structured the world for many societies before modernity. The impulse to see cycles – as the seasons, a...

The rhetorical stew and tribalism and lack of forethought work out so that the vision being proposed is, essentially, that we’re going to tear down heaven and put up a data center.

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder to overturn vote

I’m burning through books at a rate of about four a week because of this job. I’ll be back to dragging along in Edgar’s wake soon enough, as the school year picks up. Still, I’ve got two more weeks ...

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

We come now to the crown jewel of this round-up, a book I have been chasing since my first youth (or at least my early teens) and which I have finally read in its original language, over the course of...