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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 24/09/2026

They discontinued mine this year. Becoming vintage in real time.

Picture of a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard. Each side has two keywells with the keys arranged in grids. Each side also has a cluster of grid-aligned keys for the thumbs.

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 20/09/2026

We must return to the old texts (the Dune Encyclopedia).

Entry from the Dune Encyclopedia. Part of the entry on Jehanne Butler is highlighted. It reads "Jehanne went to the capitol of Pylos to enter the hospital for the birth of a child. Since both parents had married late in life for their culture, they were especially eager for this birth. When on the delivery table, Jehanne was anesthetized; when she awoke, she and her husband were informed that their daughter, Sarah, had been aborted. The hospital explained that the fetus had been too deformed to survive. The abortion was described as therapeutic. Jehanne's control of her own body, which as a result of her Bene Gesserit training extended beyond those muscle systems usually thought of as automatic, had permitted a deep knowledge of the growth of her child within the womb. She was convinced that it was impossible for her child to have been so grievously malformed as the hospital had described. In time, Jehanne came to believe that her child's death had at best been unnecessary. Using the access to official records provided by Thet'r's position as Logistos, she discovered within the archives of the hospital evidence that the hospital director — the first self- programming machine on Komos — had instituted a program of unjustified abortions."

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 29/08/2026

Wait till they encounter 'yuns'.

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 14/08/2026

The mutant attaches to reproductive anxiety. Ascension to a Captain American superhuman level is a power fantasy that allows the same self to push forward. The mutant is reproduction that can't sustain the reproductive fantasy of similitude.

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 03/08/2026

I am confused at to what the disagreement is. I was pointing to the underlying mechanism that makes possible this movement as it is and has played out. So I do not understand where I am appealing to a "could have."

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 03/08/2026

Secularization precludes neither concepts of teleology nor essence. And in fact can sharpen them to make up for the loss of the master signifier.

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 17/07/2026

tbf, Marx himself is rather underspecified on what comes after Capitalism.

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 29/06/2026

“I think, therefore I am poor.”

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 22/05/2026

2050: The neuralink expeditionary force sets out to colonize Mars.

Black and white still of Mondasian cybermen from the Doctor Who serial 'The Tenth Planet'. Humanoid figures with large transparent boxes on their chest that connect to tubes running over and into their bodies, sock-like tubes over their faces with black eye and mouth holes, and headlamps that sprout tubes to cover their ears.

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 13/05/2026

QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

b&w still of Peter Lorre in the 1935 film Mad Love.

Lorre's eye almost bug out and his mouth hangs slightly open as he stares tot he right of the camera. He wears a black suit jacket and his shirt collar is open. A globe lamp sits on a table behind him to the left.

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 19/04/2026

"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." —Edward Gibbon

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Hardboiled Babylon @hardboiledbabylon.com · 03/04/2026