Deep beneath the Earth’s surface life is weird and wonderful | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/deep-beneath-the-earths-surface-life-is-weird-and-wonderful
Tetris effect after decades of playing Life™ is so bad it’s legendary, players have founded entire religions on what they call Heaven, Hell, Valhalla, what have you
the sun as black dwarf, cool enough to host life again, but it’s nearly two-dimensional due to the intense gravity
Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/second-life-leslie-jamison/544149/?
a contest for the most layers of simulation, with entries like “tetris in minecraft in a vm in a vm in a vm submitted by some dude wearing a mask who’s a sleeper agent in real life which btw isn’t real anyway but that’s the free level everyone gets anyway
Did you know that maps are voodoo dolls? When you draw a line on one, people will often try not to cross it in real life
Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson - An Interview with Prop Anon - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/13/chapel-perilous-life-thought-crimes-robert-anton-wilson-interview-prop-anon/
Perpetual Motion Machines — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/perpetual-motion-machines/
Diminishing Returns — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/diminishing-returns/
All Ears — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/all-ears/
Partially Examined Life #175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTF7z7M-HFM
Music is in your brain and your body and your life | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/music-is-in-your-brain-and-your-body-and-your-life
Echo Location — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/echo-location/?curator=MusicREDEF
I cannot for the life of me decide where my photos should live
Doomsday Pattern — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/doomsday-pattern/
Time After Time — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/time-after-time/
I am not opposed to someone having a negative comment now and then but when 90% of what they say is negative. That is a person I do not need in my life.
Most of us don’t remember their last life because it was that of a bacterium - nothing bad, just the most likely place for a soul to be
immortality tech varies: mindwiped clones (and not-clones), life extension treatment, “actual” immortality through a gene edit
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
How Silicon Valley’s past predicts its future: an interview with Ellen Ullman - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16215836/ellen-ullman-life-in-code-interview-technology-ai
Proactive Paranoia — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/proactive-paranoia/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
📚 Finished reading Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
📚 Finished reading Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Why we fell for clean eating | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating
Eager To Burst His Own Bubble, A Techie Made Apps To Randomize His Life : All Tech Considered : NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/08/531796329/eager-to-burst-his-own-bubble-a-techie-made-apps-to-randomize-his-life
The Handshake | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/143633/handshake-why-yousef-muslet-face-life-prison-everyday-gesture?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Sending out minimal replicator probes, just enough to start life, and hoping it’ll later figure out universal law and cooperate with you
Scientists crack mystery of ancient Roman concrete’s 2,000-year life span - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/04/ancient-romans-made-worlds-most-durable-concrete-we-might-use-it-to-stop-rising-seas/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft&utm_term=.2b76b2885c2a
Instant Recall — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/instant-recall/
Player One — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/player-one/?curator=MediaREDEF
Spells that create life are taboo not because of hubris (wizards are hubris) but because that’s entirely too close to self-casting spells
Web of Lies — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/web-of-lies/
Songs of Myself — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/songs-of-myself/
‘It was quasi-religious’: the great self-esteem con | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/quasi-religious-great-self-esteem-con?mc_cid=5b2b5ba98b&mc_eid=2008f73199
Clearings — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/clearings/
A Warm Place — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/a-warm-place/
Blocking People in Real Life: Tom Scott at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq7oauciBdc
Updating Our Nightmares — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/updating-our-nightmares/
Influencing Machines — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/influencing-machines/
‘I knew they were sugar pills but I felt fantastic’ – the rise of open-label placebos | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/22/knew-they-were-sugar-pills-felt-fantastic-rise-open-label-placebos?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
@skingrapher@skingrapher.com Cannot predict now
Volcanoes are the bitemark of the magma flea, an interstellar pest which is a known carrier of life so stay clear of bitten planets
watch out for infrared transmissions. don’t freak out. keep in mind: killing a planet with intelligent life on it is a crime. also bad form.
CARE AND FEEDING OF BONSAI PLANETS:↵give it a bright light to orbit. a lightbulb will do↵breathe on one and it’ll likely catch life. careful