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'Gentle and candid humor'.
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For Singularity posthumans to be possible, many present and future humans might have to pay a very steep cost. In the name of a glorious posthuman future, one can imagine fanatical posthumanists justifying the extinction of mythic-Christian, post-Christian, and humanistic ideals such as individual liberty, self-realization, and outmoded personal ( Read more... )

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Then sometimes, Frank Black sings 'I was wearing eye-liner, she was wearing eye-liner.'
Then sometimes, the world eases its strangle-hands.

O yes.

Big day tomorrow. Big interview for a documentary. Then.... Aurealis.

Pray for Mojo.