New this week at The Cogitating Ceviché: authority, culture, translation, amateurism, and a descent into Lovecraftian horror. Read the Week in Review here: thecogitatingceviche.substack.com/p/cogitating-c…

I wonder if the UK will arrest folks for posting this.

The feed does not ask what matters. It asks what performs. On the architecture that replaced reality with a ranked list of items: thecyberneticceviche.substack.com/p/the-world-as…

A locomotive does not negotiate with the sun. Sandford Fleming did not discover time zones. He got the world to agree to them, and agreement proved stronger than truth. thecogitatingceviche.substack.com/p/sandford-fle…

Julia Ward Howe wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the dark before dawn, afraid the lines would escape. Her husband was one of the men who funded John Brown's raid. The song was never as innocent as the ceremony makes it sound. thecogitatingceviche.substack.com/p/the-borrowed…

This week in Cogitating Ceviche: conviction vs. confidence, the feed as a replacement for reality, time as law, borrowed hymns, Lovecraft, and Stephen Crane. A strange and lively mix. thecogitatingceviche.substack.com/p/cogitating-c…

The word "dashboard" comes from horse-drawn carriages. It was a plank designed to block the view. We borrowed it for our most important information surface and never noticed the irony. New at Cogitating Ceviche: thecyberneticceviche.substack.com/p/the-comfort-…

Invention became a system. The system became civilization. The world that resulted has been settling the terms of that solution ever since. New entry in Anti-Heroes of Progress at Cogitating Ceviche. thecogitatingceviche.substack.com/p/james-watt-p…