COVID is not over

June 2025 update

The problem with free riders

Research

I’m of the opinion that exploitation is innate.  Parasites and predators are two distinct forms. Free riding is parasitic, primarily, and natural. 

Organisms try to take advantage of the work done by other organisms to create order from entropy… herbivores take advantage of plants, carnivores take advantage of herbivores…

Ancient wisdom for modern times

An essay on some recent books

What does it mean to live sustainably in a finite world?

The decline of the west

Cognitive dissonance

the discourse had and has been seized by what people want to believe, or what oligarchs want people to believe: what pays, not what is true. There are no consequences for being wrong, and no self awareness.

More Covid

it’s really depressing for me