Geeky Humanist

Maybe he has a large family?

The article I linked to yesterday about the potential AI bubble focused on Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle, who has invested much of hi…

I almost completely missed the meteoric career of Joe Schmid!

Joe Schmid was, I hear, a popular atheist YouTuber whose videos I never watched, except one. Belatedly, people told me he provided good philosop…

Is there a prize for bad apologetics?

The YouTube algorithm chose to stick a video titled What’s your best two minute apologetic? in my face. I expected the usual nonsense, but was s…

Loneliness, 3

What does your fourth trip to Lake O’Hara look like? The East side of the valley is dominated by Oesa Valley and Opabin Plateau, arguably the be…

Fight for your scraps or starve, peasants!

I often talk about the importance of solidarity and organizing. I think I talk less about the obstacles to doing that, and the ways in which our…

Goodbye and good riddance to Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard is the director of national intelligence, tasked with overseeing the many intelligence agencies in the US. Although she tried desp…

?The Lost Child’, Anne Atkins: review, Part Four (aka 3B)

This is the fourth part of what is now a six-part review of 1990s anti-abortion novel The Lost Child, starting with this post. In the third post…