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Gerhard
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A tapeworm may not be as smart as its host but that doesn’t stop it from scamming shelter and nourishment and a place to breed. Good parasites are invisible; the best are indispensable. Gut bacteria, chloroplasts, mitochondria: all parasites, once. All invisible in the shadow of vaster beings. Now their hosts can’t live without them.
— Feb 22, 2026 09:48AM
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Gerhard
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...oh, and have you heard about that new weaponized echopraxia that’s going around? Jitterbug, they call it. Used to be pure monkey-see-monkey-do, but they say it’s mutating. Now you get to die dancing, bring a friend along for the ride.
— Feb 24, 2026 03:04PM
Gerhard
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Plagues and firestorms in a single package. How very apocalyptic. Some splicer somewhere had a refreshingly biblical approach to weaponized biologicals.
— Feb 24, 2026 02:57PM
Gerhard
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“Echopraxia echofuckingpraxia,” Sengupta hissed at his shoulder.
— Feb 24, 2026 02:31PM
Gerhard
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“There’s no fucking justice anywhere, unless you make your own.”
Okay, that's Darwinian. Or Trumpian.
— Feb 24, 2026 01:30PM
Okay, that's Darwinian. Or Trumpian.
Gerhard
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Brüks thought about it. “I don’t—think so. Not if she hacked us all the same way, anyway. Basic things, sure. Fear. Lust. Stuff that’s universal.” He smiled, a bit grimly, at the thought of the Crown’s surviving denizens sprouting preprogrammed hard-ons and spiked nipples. And that is really not a picture I need in my head right now.
— Feb 24, 2026 01:04PM
Gerhard
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The sexy bleeding edge, you know. First explorers on the post-Human frontier.
— Feb 24, 2026 11:40AM
Gerhard
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The thought of dying is just too damn scary. So we invent some Fairyland Heaven to take us in after we pass on, or we look to your friends and their friends to give us immortality on a chip or—if we’re hard-core realists—we just pay lip service to death and decay and keep right on feeling immortal anyway.
— Feb 24, 2026 10:53AM
Gerhard
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Was the universe a hologram or a simulation? Was its boundary a program or merely an interface—and if the latter, what sat on the other side, watching it run?
— Feb 23, 2026 01:07PM
Gerhard
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Matter took on strange forms inside that chamber. Atoms would lie down, forget about Brown and entropy, take a message from the second law of thermodynamics and promise to get back to it later.
— Feb 23, 2026 08:13AM
Gerhard
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Pre-Socratic Greeks intuited atomic theory in 200 BC. Buddhists were saying centuries ago that we can’t trust our senses, that sensation itself is an act of faith. Hinduism’s predicated on the Self as illusion...
— Feb 22, 2026 12:36PM
