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We find ourselves in a peculiar place. We are more interconnected, yet more misinformed. At ease with more advanced technologies, but more easily mislead by them. “Doing our own research”,…

 Well, that was fast. The 2023 edition of the Twelve Days of Wu-Mas has come to a close, and I hope you both enjoyed the gifts and goodies I left…

Oak leaves shimmer and dance in the wind. Morning sunlight filters in through the trees, the rays fighting their way through wisps of Spanish moss. You can find this scene…

Some creative work requires the application of quick, definitive force if you want to take what’s in your head, commit it to a distributable medium, and get it out the…

[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social] This is my sixth annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI…

Sometimes a story takes a number of years to ripen. And sometimes two or three stories merge in unexpected ways. I just had a moment of convergence when new infill…

I’m keen that disappearing photographic techniques are catalogued for future enjoyment. The Gelabrome process is a variant of the Carbro process. There seems to be very little on the internet…

Paul Linebarger (aka Cordwainer Smith) was an interesting guy. Among other things he was heavily involved in developing psychological warfare techniques for the US military. He was also a close…

I started a new blog! Come check it out and consider subscribing, the content will be similar to what I post here, but hopefully will be more polished. https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/

Last Spring I published a large mosaic photo of the Milky Way and it went viral!A blog post about it can be seen here: https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2021/03/gigapixel-mosaic-of-milky-way-1250.html  I have now even a large version of…

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Images found in two 1980s books, Naoyuki Katoh SF Illustrations I and II (there's also a volume III), which I occasionally have for sale at 50 Watts Books. Naoyuki Katoh,…

The city of Kyoto was the only great city of Japan to be spared serious bombing during World War II, despite being among the top targets preferred for the atomic…

First, this is still a live project, just one that is temporarily on hold. I believe in this concept, but at the moment, life has gotten in the way. This

I like making lists. A lot of people do. And this is reflected in the abundance of to-do apps available today. There's a silly amount of them. Designed to augment…

As we await the next generation of engineered writing, of tools like ChatGPT that are based on large language models (LLMs), it is worth pondering whether they will ever create…

Going forward, all of the content here will also be posted at https://goodoptics.substack.com/ The substack subscribe feature is much easier to use. I will continue to post on wordpress for…

Back in 2016, Apple released the dreaded butterfly keyboard MacBook Pros. They also pitched pro users on a new setup – forget about desktop computers. Get one of these laptops…

He hadn’t even gotten the letter into the envelope when he was sprayed down with Ending Gel. I know what the letter said because I was the one who sprayed…