You will fight psychic ghosts as an ill-equipped and disposable tool of a faceless, morally grey, bureaucratic organization. You’ll have to choose between life-saving equipment and the dignity of shoes that fit, and you will like it.
read pretty interactive sheets and trackers for the ttrpg CAIN (2 min)The human genome project was the at-the-time largest collaborative project in biology. Completed in 2003, it took 13 years and (in today’s money) about $6.5 billion USD. Last month, I sent a swab of the inside of my cheek to be fully sequenced (30x redundant reads) for $400 USD. That means the cost to sequence a human genome fell by more than a factor of two each year for the last 23 years.
My goal is to make a space exploration sandbox game, with ~20%-scale planets, real physics, and a small colony/factory layer.
I’ve been reflecting on cities (I love living in cities), and abundance liberalism (I happily admit to liking stuff). I then ran into this post re: Voltaire’s poem Le Mondain - a smug, delightful celebration of cosmopolitanism. Wikipedia shares this lovely and quotable bit:
Line 22 of the poem, “Le superflu, chose très-nécessaire” (“The superfluous, a very necessary thing”), became a common catch-phrase.