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Atlanta-based software architect with two decades of experience in systems engineering and emerging tech. I write about literature, philosophy, software, language, and the craft of programming

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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
not now, Yemeni anthropomorphic stele
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Invisible, a sound almost like bells ~Anna Akhmatova
[Evening Bells by Carlos Schwabe (1891)]
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
they should have a public frontier lab and build out a more robust USDS
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
if you have one holy book you must have all holy books in the classroom i think
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
this is basically how THE STARS MY DESTINATION (1956) opens www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat
Small cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
my favorite part is when he said “I’m Agamem Man”
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
my little reading of Ulysses for bloomsday <3 fractalontology.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/p...
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Parmenides…Joyce
The mares that carry me as far as my (their?) spirit might reach Were conducting [me]; when leading (carrying) me they put me onto a many-voiced road Of a goddess (daimōn), who through all cities b…
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
unions are magic www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The ‘wizards’ behind the online version of Magic: the Gathering are unionizing
Developers at the studio Wizards of the Coast cited AI and layoff protections as some issues driving unionization effort
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
technically, it’s a creative departure
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Kumoi Cherry Trees (Kumoi sakura) Date:1926 Artist:Yoshida Hiroshi. Japanese, 1867–1950
This 1926 woodblock print, titled Kumoi Cherry Trees (Kumoi sakura), is a masterful work by Yoshida Hiroshi (1867–1950), a leading figure in the Shin-hanga movement. The composition features a grand weeping cherry tree with cascading pink blossoms that frame a full, pale moon hanging low in a soft teal sky. Beneath the sprawling branches, two figures in traditional kimono walk along a darkened hillside, their presence providing a sense of scale and human connection to the vast, ethereal landscape.

The rhythmic, organic drape of the cherry blossoms and the silhouettes of the figures reflect a consistent Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in the delicate balance between nature and human life.
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Found a copy of glyph I at a used bookshop
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
the left: I just thought maybe we could have some nicer Conversations, the right: BRING ON THE GÖTTERDÄMERUNG
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
condo got flooded yesterday 😩
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
my little reading of Antigone fractalontology.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/a...
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Antigone Ironhearted
Antigone and Ismene, KPM Berlin (1909) Sophocles’ Antigone functions as a tragic simulation of state intelligence. It offers practical and didactic lessons to the ruling class on detectin…
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/12/2025
[Clown sings.] When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
does a cat have Buddha-nature???
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moon river @riveredelalune.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Rimel Neffati
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Bantership Potemkin @bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Channel 4's adaptation of Oresteia
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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Olive Thomas by Maurice Goldberg as featured in Theatre magazine, March 1919
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
imho it is somewhat hypocritical how imperial and temple power centers aura-farm the New Testament while steadfastly ignoring its pointed critique of… imperial and temple power centers. not to mention the open hatred for the sociological content of the gospels (feed the hungry?? you confused child!)
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
we almost got a genuinely-woke followup to last jedi (duel of the fates) but out of craven cowardice they killed it and gave us rise of skywalker instead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...
John boyega bearing a bright blue flag leads a resistance army
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
my favorite thing about ai? well do you count memory-palace mental training disciplines to prepare for butlerian machine-war
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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“it is alternately stone in you and star”
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
need so much more of this queen type behavior www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice… and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. (MLK)
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
rly not a good vibe when Rightists say they are Finally Solving autism
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link here: www.urbanomic.com/book/the-rev...
The Revenge of Reason, front cover.
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
may all beings be happy and live in safety and be free from fear
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
An LLM is a black hole; weights are interior island regime, seemingly nonobservable but clearly “part” of the same structure as the radiative halo (predictive generations) whose information is purified by stepwise path-dependent entanglement — ie replica wormholes (utterances, unprestatable portals)
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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/08/2025
the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
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Sega Dream-Cast Official @dreamcast.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
they should make a good dragon. beige. not quite as thick
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
au justice was served
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
a great while ago the world begun
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. ~Sylvia Plath
[Experiment in Three-Color Photography by Edward Steichen (1906)] a woman in the distance walks away and around the shore of a small body of water, in a slight mood of darkness
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
adami
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I keep thinking that the broadest sense of Nietzsche’s philosophy is simply a raised eyebrow alongside the question: “so you say you want to deny the reality of your senses?”
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
the world becomes tragicomedy around comedy writers, through no fault of theirs exactly
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Where books burn, so do people
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
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HAM: Photography (Bot) @hamphotography.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Sommerfeld Residence, Berlin, 1920-1921 www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ise Gropius
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
look here slywalker
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snub-nosed monk @smelting.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
another year has passed and it's owl awareness day once more
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mammon @derekhill.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
i just went on a nap
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
ancient mound
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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Tolkien’s drawing of The Lonely Mountain.
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Prospero’s words have been on my mind recently, as the world’s large-scale horrors both dwarf yet strangely compound the challenges of our immediate lives, in particular his sentiment that ‘we are such stuff/As dreams are made on’. The play in truth has never been far away from me for many years
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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
careful what you wish for; commercial speech itself isn’t protected by 1A
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