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Guy P. Harrison

@guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social
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Just a simple urbanized/hypnotized eukaryote writing books along the road to extinction. I think; therefore, I'm not sure. Run fast, lift heavy. Kindness is cool.

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
YOU ARE A BIPEDAL MICROBIAL COLONY... “Every person is a collective, a vast and complex gathering of interdependent life. Any description of ‘human’ must acknowledge these intimate strangers.” —Guy P. Harrison, At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life #booksbyguypharrison
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ready or not, here comes the future...
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind.” –Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes #booksbyguypharrison
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Any technology on par with nuclear weapons should be subject to democratic control, given that a private company has a greater responsibility to its shareholders than to all citizens.” “Preaching Caution on the Road to AI,” interview with Darren McKee by Guy P. Harrison, Psychology Today #AI
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Eliminating the false ‘mysteries’ does not leave us with a dull or mundane human past. There are still plenty of mysteries and some enormously interesting, open questions about what has gone before.” –Kenneth L. Feder, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Best overview of the big questions … a grand tour from the farthest reaches of the Universe down to Earth, life, and the journey into our own selves. … You can feel the love Harrison has for the answers. I highly recommend this one.” —Ethan Siegel, Forbes review of At Least Know This
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Reality is more complex than we expected.” —Carlo Rovelli, “The Myth of Perfect Knowledge,” The Atlantic, September 8, 2026 (infrared image of NGC 346, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope)
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in." ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974 novel
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trump showed off the new US Space Force uniforms today. I guess it's beyond all doubt now. The Galactic Empire has landed and is moving to conquer Earth. Where is Luke Skywalker when you need him? #kakistocracy #idiocracy #starwars
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I don't challenge irrational beliefs because I believe I’m smarter than other people. I’m not a pessimist who assumes everyone is hopelessly stupid. I do it because I am an optimist who thinks everyone can do better. #booksbyguypharrison #criticalthinking
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“In science, skepticism is foundational to our profession, so we uphold standards of evidence that some interpret as disinterest or even denial. Don’t take it personally...” —Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Take Me to Your Leader #booksinmybookcasegoober #science #ufos
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“One of the things I find fascinating watching science fiction movies, including 'Soylent Green,' is no matter how dystopian things are in the sci-fi movie, you can almost always find some aspect of global society that mirrors it.” —Andrew Maynard, associate dean at ASU’s College of Global Futures
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’ve spent a huge part of my life watching Star Trek. The rest of my time, I just wasted. #startrek
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A fascinating book, in this universe or any other! #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Me trying to resist buying another book that I don’t have space for and will likely die before I find the time to read it.
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
READING BOOKS IS THE ANTIDOTE TO THIS Have TikTok brainworms, podcast morons, and YouTube propaganda clips eaten your neocortex? Don’t lose hope! You can rebuild it. We have the technology. The cure you need exists in the form of special devices called science and history books.
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“I find it absolutely frightening that children don’t read because it is the only pure means of communication. One writer talking to one reader.” —Terry Gilliam, Twilight Zone Magazine, May 1982, interview by James Verniere
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“You can’t really do any useful intellectual conditioning till the fetuses have lost their tails.” —Aldous Huxley, Brave New World #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind.” –Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Fad diets don’t work in the long term. That’s why they’re called FADS.” —Nick Tiller, The Health and Wellness Lie
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Humor heightens our sense of survival and preserves our sanity.” —Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“In science, skepticism is foundational to our profession, so we uphold standards of evidence that some interpret as disinterest or even denial. Don’t take it personally...” —Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Take Me to Your Leader #booksinmybookcasegoober #science #ufos
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“The most fundamental fact about current AIs is that they are grown, not crafted. It is not like other software gets made—indeed it is closer to how a human gets made, at least in some important ways.” —Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980 book #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“America still has nuclear heartlands—landscapes where, every few miles, a missile is standing by ready to be launched on the orders of the president. Most Americans largely ignore this reality. It feels as if it is from another age. –Fred Pearce, Fallout #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“The one thing I have learned about humanoids is that in extreme situations, even the best of you are capable of doing terrible things.” —Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “The Collaborator" #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"All the courage in the world cannot alter fact." —Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, Blade Runner 2049, 2017 film #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Fascist politicians know that their supporters will turn a blind eye to their own, true corruption since in their own case it is just a matter of members of the chosen nation taking what is rightfully theirs.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The more we know, the more we can imagine. The more we can imagine, the more we can do. #booksbyguypharrison
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Race: “An important subject about which clear thinking is generally avoided.” —Ashley Montagu, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race, 1954 book #racism #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The best answer to bad science is good science. The worst answer to bad science is to surrender your brain to dishonest or incompetent social-media actors such as Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, RFK Jr., Brett Weinstein, Candace Owens, etc. Think before you believe. #booksbyguypharrison
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Belief in biological races is an inhuman heuristic. Presuming to see biological race categories in the faces of strangers and thereby know their innate potentials and limitations is unscientific and unfair. #booksbyguypharrison
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Reality cannot be ignored, except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.” — Aldous Huxley, “Religion and Time” (1943 essay) #booksbyguypharrison
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Messier 77 (M77) (NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope) #NASA
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Something must be fundamentally wrong with the global economic game played by humankind because its biggest winner is a total moron. #odyssey
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MAKE MEASLES GREAT AGAIN The United States is currently experiencing its highest rate of measles infections in more than three decades. This is what happens when people trust the claims of con artists, imbeciles, and lunatics over the medical advice of credible doctors and scientists.
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Reading is more than a skill, or one mode of communication among many. The media we use to interact with one another shape the world we inhabit.” —Rose Horowitch, “The End of Reading is Here,” The Atlantic, July 8, 2026 #booksinmybookcasegoober #reading #books
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” —Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark #booksinmybookcasegoober #carlsagan
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Spock: Captain, according to my tricorder readings, the timeline has been severely damaged. Kirk: Agreed. This timeline is cooked. Let's get out of here. [deleted scene from the classic Star Trek episode, "The Idiot on the Edge of Forever"] #startrek #idiocracy #kakistocracy
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“I am from the future, and all of this goes horribly wrong, horribly wrong.” —Matthew Robinson, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, 2025 film #booksbyguypharrison #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Stating the obvious: If an AI tool writes text for you, it means you did not write the text. It also means you lost an opportunity to become a better writer by writing. Using AI is fine to proofread or help with research, but putting your name on something AI wrote is not the win many believe. #AI
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“The news was prioritized in a way I could not understand. For instance, there was nothing on new mathematical observations or still-undiscovered polygons, but quite a bit about politics, which on this planet was essentially all about war and money.” ―Matt Haig, The Humans #booksbyguypharrison
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The guy who thinks fascist salutes are funny, gutted science research in the US, helped reelect Trump, and caused people to die with reckless foreign aid cuts is the first trillionaire in history. Something is very wrong with our civilization.
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
They call them Terminator drones... Ukrainian official confirms autonomous "Terminator" drones with no human oversight killed Russian soldiers. The future keeps coming, whether you pay attention or not. #AI #drones #robots #war #terminator #sciencefiction
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.” —Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek #somethingmycamerasawalongtheway
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Regular and repeated obvious lying is part of the process by which fascist politics destroys the information space. A fascist leader can replace truth with power, ultimately lying without consequence.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, 2018 book #booksinmybookcase
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“It is hard to know how many lives may have been saved if sexism and patriarchy had not triumphed in human societies.” – Joseph L. Graves Jr., A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems, 2022 book #booksinmybookcasegoober
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Being a good person today requires thought and work." ―Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter #booksinmybookcasegoober #philosophy
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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” —Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize winner in physics, The First Three Minutes, 1977 book #booksinmybookcasegoober #science
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