why we should

I'll take moral realism to describe all those positions which developed, whether in Christian, Islamic, Confucian or even Buddhist worldings, which feel the world would fall apart if people were not moral, that morality is somehow bound up in the substance of the world, and that one has direct access to this realm as a human (other animals not so…

Gapping OSB (or Plywood) sheathing by DavidPoz “Allowing the gap” is a building tip, and describes a practice that avoids an arrangement of elements that are too tight. By butting each end up tight against the next, in hopes of achieving some minimalist perfect surface that hides its parts and bits and bones under an ideal finish…. —but which does…

vowels space, flocks of birds, mapping plans, composing ourselves intently We see our bones as our both innermost and outlasting remains, rarely do we think of them as the fossils of our movements, except when they ache. We can feel our bones structure us like a building’s walls, but outside of that intent, we quake in life regardless. The difference…

Upon my algorithm a video from DigitalGnosis appeared streamingly with the title Sam Harris Still Hasn’t “Solved” Morality w/ ‪@lanceindependent‬, 2024. It’s a critique video reacting the one by Sam Harris (i.e. streaming in realtime while listening to it) . The pair is quite well-prepared so it is not a “I’m amazed” reaction video. This is the first I’ve seen…

When I was learning how to pour molten bronze into lost-wax hollows burnt out from slapped-over investments of plaster, in order to create Consorts to the Mountain Goddess, my teacher in metal Matt Carney would say to me, looking at… my dad-bods My dad-bod figures of Gog & Magog (from a series of Deloraine Adonides never poured) “Why don’t you…

the first gap is the future, it's child's play Mapping the gap, gaping at the void with/in-out — mapping the gap is not really about mapping the gap in itself, as there is nothing there. So then…. gaping at the void with/in-out… —or, at, not even nothing… at Nothing is the first thing we put into the gap, for it…