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The Metabolic Arbitrage Principle

A Theory of Evolutionary Selection Inversion

May 23 •

Loosen the noose of identity

May 13 •

April 2025

What’s in a name? or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Impending Collapse

The origin of the name Animal

Apr 26 •

March 2025

I am solid, ordinary stone forged in a crucible of longing. A thousand storms left me asleep below enormous roots. I am silent, a newborn stream…

Mar 21 •

Some striking implications of Animal's Law

Hey, master of the obvious, what are you talking about?

Mar 3 •

February 2025

Animal's Law of Compensatory Adaptation: Any intervention in a complex system will face compensatory adaptation

Rather than viewing adaptation as a side effect, we must recognize it as the primary effect

Feb 26 •

I quit my job to become a writer

We trained the robots to think for us, right around the time we humans stopped thinking altogether...

Feb 12 •

Harm for tenderness

It is precisely our ability to harm

Feb 11 •

Ethical claims are methods, never absolutes.

Ethical claims are methods, never absolutes.

Feb 5 •

January 2025

Self portrait in ink

Jan 5 •

August 2024

Truth is the currency of intimacy

Or, Why I risk friendships, and everything else, for truth.

Aug 25, 2024 •

July 2024

Reconciliation of the heart & the gun

[A eulogy in two acts, for man & gun]

Jul 20, 2024 •

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