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Dec 22

As the Corvidae Fly

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Copyright Urban Mole 2016 A beautiful aspect of winter is the chance to rise in the dark at the start of the day. If you're fortunate, your coffee may be brewing as the sky pales and you catch a flock of crows flying hundred-fold under the last stars, calling out…
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Dec 08

Eugoogleogy

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Copyright Urban Mole 2016 Trust is a mountaineer's rope made from the laces of dead climbers' shoes. It is predicated on truth values but incorporates fallibility because often the thing you trust, or the class of thing you trust, has been known to fail. Scientists sometimes lie, air planes occasionally…
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Nov 10

Limits

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Copyright Karin Mora 2016 Ah, the beautiful view of the woods outside, thin enough to thread a truck through and full of that tree, and the one with the conkers. I used to play conkers as a child but was told not to eat them. We ate them in autumn…
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Aug 31

Traffico

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Copyright Karin Mora 2016 In Italy, a tick rode a doe across a camber very early, before most commuters were up; before people knew there were deer in the city. It was safe: I was driving; I could stop; the road was clear. The doe walked like a jay in…
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Jun 13

n00b to sudoer, an introduction

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Copyright Karin Mora 2016 Let's assume the following: that strong AI exists, that it's a cyborg, networked intelligence comprised of both digital and organic nodes, and that it's live in the wild. Terrifying(ly interesting)! Another form of intelligent life on Earth, created by and utilising us. Leaving aside the imminent…
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May 09

The Book

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Kipling, Rudyard  / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain It's chasmic, the fall of words down lines curved by the half open page to the black gulch below, where shadows form on sunny days or in the half light, oblique; at fifty degrees and cool as the cover is under the…
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