More often confused than knowing.

An observation note about one dark red Cosmos bipinnatus individual that appeared among pink and white flowers in my yard.

Listening to: Laufey — Questions for the Universe I did not really understand the whole lyrics when I first listened to this song. Maybe that was exactly why I caught its atmosphere before its meaning. But perhaps I understood a little: Laufey seems to be expressing doubt and confusion about love, life, and herself. ...

Notes and reflections on Prof. Iwan Pranoto’s explanation of the difference between thinking and reasoning, and the importance of cultivating scientific temper.

A note on the meeting of two temporal orientations, local entropy conflict, and the possibility of time as a cyclic form.

Warning: If, after reading this essay, your first thought is “This was definitely written by AI,” then this essay may be talking about you. When I scroll through content on the internet lately, the question I see most often in the comments is not “What might the artist have felt?”, but a much cooler question, at least from the commenter’s point of view, (perhaps): “Is this AI?” Funny, isn’t it? ...

“If we truly prioritized the biosphere above our own species, how far could that argument be taken?” The question sounds simple, but it quietly carries a small knife into the center of human ethics. Many arguments for nature conservation still move within a human-centered orbit: forests must be protected because they provide oxygen for humans, oceans must be saved because they support human food systems, and the climate must be stabilized because human civilization would otherwise be disrupted. ...