They’re amazed the low-res zones host any life at all. Around them, the simulation has a much higher resolution, colors are more vibrant,

do prisoners for life deserve the immortality treatment

As soon as the spiral forms, add Life™ to your milky way. The cheese is ripe when Dyson bubbles begin to form around stars. Enjoy the snack.

“Why cats?” Well, source material is readily available, and would humans really let digital life into their files if it weren’t cute?

we hunt beholders for their eyes since that’s where beauty lies, each exquisite artifact once a beholder’s joy in life

Buy the Life™ DLC to unlock perks like an eighth weekday, always picking the fast queue, meaning in life (no longer part of the base game)

What have you taught me?
His father was only giving him a small advise, worried for him. Parents worry too much, sometimes. It was not taken well.

“You suffocate me, don’t worry so much about me! Enough advise, what have you taught me, until now?” He asks. Perhaps no much, the father thinks in retrospect. Brushing the teeth, maybe? Lacing the shoes? How to clean the arse? How to respect others, and do good? To be happy, love, study hard, work hard? That, and the many little things of daily life. … ⌘ Read more

Three↵Two↵One↵INCISION-↵and the particle accelerator shudders to life, beam near invisible, starts to cut reality’s skin itself

One, we have no idea where it got its entropy from, had reinvented life. We opened it and nearly destroyed a civilization of atomic dwarves.

To gods, seeding a planet with life is like starting a campfire. They get drunk, burst into songs, poke it, jump over it, dance around it,

Parafire, fuzzy void mold, has started growing on our flames, stunting their growth but in doing this, paradoxically prolonging their life

“But dawn is gentle, it has no edge!” Well, not anymore anyway.↵She who stole it also took meaning, the easy life, at least three emotions,

Penfriendship in the upload age: Split off part of yourself, send it to your friend. They then let it take part in their own life for a day.

Life in the eternal roaring twilight is austere but not without joys. There is great celebration every time the hunters bring home skyjelly.

on the other end of the spectrum: jungleverses teeming with life on every scale, subatomic parasites feeding on stars, physics is biology

“I gave this one extra deep gravity wells in the places that would usually catch life and it still got out, what the hell, it’s spreading”

demiurges usually make their universes lifeless and sterile, life is a blemish, disturbs the cosmic order, messes up perfectly fine crystals

life as we know it is merely a virus that needs reality to support it↵real, hardcore, life needs nothing but mathematical structure

@kas@enotty.dk Nope, creepy here too. Dont know what asmr is? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/02/asmr_videos_autonomous_sensory_meridian_response_and_whispering_videos_on.html

“They’re dead, accept it, this has been the way since life began” vs “Ghosts now serve an important role in society, some even as judges”

We radioed a few, no answer, no signs of life. But the stars… stirred. Something large was moving. Whatever it is, it’s now on its way to us

“You’re looking for life in space, but doing it wrong! You should be looking for signs of death, not life!” We thought his claims wild.

Lost your direction in life?↵Soul searching wouldn’t help?↵Call Ashcrombe, Private Eye & Certified Guru, and we’ll find your way in no time!

The readings showed a habitable planet not far from us, supporting carbon based life. Halfway there, the expedition crashed into a mirror.

It’s not a nice life these uploads have, spent in featureless white rooms sifting through meaningless drivel. But our survival is paramount.

I’ve known necromancers, seen them animate simple dice, give life to a magnifying glass to help in finding beauty. I don’t see the evil.

Qualia was solved and we started cataloguing colors, postulated a periodic system, discovered a new primary color with a half life of a week

1-2: observe their life and customs↵3-4: a challenger appears but is swiftly struck down↵#eh16 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714138754382958592/photo/1

rocks of everyday life:↵noolith - book (usually nonfiction)↵oneirolith - book (usually fiction)↵sociolith - building↵cryptolith - hard drive

macroscopic kingdoms of life: animals, plants, fungi, protista, roboti, mechals, fire, golems, storms, religions, stars, …

I put my hat on a mannequin and my pet slime mold creeps out, engulfs its head and vanishes into the joints. The mannequin shudders to life.

Being a stone is peaceful. As I’m slowly ground into dust, ever lighter currents carry me around. Not being life, I’m content to watch.

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As we make coffee and add milk, a mind awakens in the surface between the fluids. Its life is short, but all it wants is homogenous nirvana.

with life as the substrate for memes, what will use memes as substrate?

That ear splitting wail from a badly set up microphone hooked to a sound system? That is the sound of a life, all lived over a few seconds.

📚 Finished reading Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity by David Christian

Secrets of living to be 200 years old
This article refers to ageing as not being an inevitable fact of life. It goes to describe the marvellous capabilities that some animals have to live, seemingly, forever. Yet, do we really want to? With all the problems we are having with over population, do we want to pursue the holy grail, and extend life to last hundreds?

We have … ⌘ Read more

@kenkouot I miss you too guys. Life is calmer and more boring here :)

📚 Finished reading Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond by Scott P. Stevens

📚 Finished reading Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond by Scott P. Stevens

📚 Finished reading The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins by Anne Curzan

📚 Finished reading The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins by Anne Curzan

📚 Finished reading No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life by Robert C. Solomon

📚 Finished reading No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life by Robert C. Solomon

📚 Finished reading Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math by Daniel Tammet

On the meaning of life
Will Durant sent a letter to a few notable figures, asking them for the meaning of life.

Spare me a moment to tell me what meaning life has for you, what keeps you going, what help—if any—religion gives you, what are the sources of your inspiration and your energy, what is the goal or motive-force of your toil, where you find your consolations and your happiness, where, in the last resort, your treasure lies. Write briefly if you must; … ⌘ Read more

Mi vieja

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She created me, all my flaws and gifts unintended. She nurtured and guided me through life the best she could, suffering for my mistakes—but always hopeful—and rejoicing on my victories. Always supportive she gave herself to me (and my siblings), selflessly.

After a lifetime mission, her time around here has expired. We knew it would come, but never fully prepared for it. And so we wept, sadness seeping throu … ⌘ Read more

Find what you love
Steve Jobs commencement\
address at
Stanford University, in 2005:

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve
ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because
almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of�� … ⌘ Read more

Dragons can be killed

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“By confining your child to blameless stories of child life in which nothing at all alarming ever happened, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable. For … ⌘ Read more