Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the...

we're a week into october, and spooky vibes are in full swing. every year we marathon horror and horror-adjacent films - lightly spooky kid-friendly flicks for family movie night, and more intense late-night viewings for just the adults. so far we've watched: Coraline (my eldest daughter's new favorite movie), Ernest Scared Stupid, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and Fright Night (1985). Next up on the docket for the coming nights: Poltergeist, Lost Boys, The Fog, Fright Night (2011), and Shaun of the Dead....

disassembled an old laptop last night. I was randomly inspired by the cyberdeck community, and decided on a whim to tear it open, screw by screw, ribbon connector by ribbon connector.

I have some ancient experience building vintage PCs (back in the early 2000s AD) so it wasn't completely new territory, but my first time handling laptop internals... and my first time considering...

anyone else consciously divide their life into eras? like phases, or chapters in a book? for me, every few years seems to bring a shift into a new era, with lifestyle changes, new obstacles, and new obligations.

every new era I enter seems to have a mental or emotional theme dictated by the dominant experiences of the period. I had a coming of age and teen angst era, a social butterfly era, an internet recluse era, a falling in love era, a traveling era. each with varying combinations of joy, excitement,...