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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
This is Ovid’s more prosaic and...
Above Waves Without End
With what thoughts are these wings set
Above the roar of the ocean’s estate,
Where toil and its twin once more regret
Deeming the sun the haven...
Two from the Teleporter: A Sci-fi Story
Originally published in the first issue of Cicatrix magazine, 2016. Dedicated to the memory of Jønathan Lyons, founder of Cicatrix Publishing.
If only. Yes, if...
Cryptocurrency and the Knock Nevis Effect
The Knock Nevis was the longest supertanker ever built. It took a long time to turn around. The Seawise Giant, as it was also...
The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics attempts to resolve the apparent paradoxes left unsatisfactorily unraveled by other interpretations. One of its appealing qualities is...
A Review of Frank Pasquale’s “A Rule of Persons, Not Machines:...
Originally published by The Rational Argumentator and The Transhumanist Party of America in 2018.
From the beginning Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society:...