apophenia

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Fragments, observations, things still becoming. Shorter than essays; usually less considered.

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This is knowable

When I was a child, the Internet was born and phones crawled across the surface of the planet and the whole of human knowledge became accessible with a moment's effort. Querying the well of human knowledge was novel, then routine, then a fundamental part of our humanity as we

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A pound of Norse flesh? Tracking down a rare motif.

A Norse trickster god and a Venetian merchant walk into a courtroom. Both are facing death and both escape their sentence on the same, hyperspecific technicality. Surely these cases are related? While reading the Merchant of Venice recently, I noticed a similarity to a Norse