HIVE·OPTIKThe Glasshole Cambrian Explosion The first HIVE·OPTIK was not a surveillance platform. It was a joke. That distinction would later become legally important. The original C-model was a piece of aggressively over-designed cosplay eyewear sold by a Shenzhen vendor whose storefront also carried tactical umbrellas, titanium chopsticks, fake cybernetic knuckles, illuminated face masks, folding drones,…
Month: August 2026
Some questions on living much longer – and soon
The Metrics of Immortality Let me ask you to construct a realistic, but remarkably positive, scenario. In this future timeline, biogerontological life-extension technologies emerge quickly. By that I mean something fairly mundane at first: medical treatments that are expensive, achieve only modest results, are available in only a handful of countries, attract suspicion, are used…
Equality includes the right to be a pain in the ass
(rewritten for reasons of insecurity on 24 august) Last year, 2025, I suffered a whole bunch of stupid disappointments. My best friend (Let’s call her M.) was fucking up her life falling in love with a woman fifteen years her senior — a single Mom from Friesland with a kid from the swinging scene. She…
Es war uns scheißegal
Wir haben es nicht gewusst «Мы понятия не имели» Thesis A military organization cannot use its own failure to identify a war criminal as a defence against responsibility. When a civilian is deliberately hunted by a drone, the commanding officer cannot simply say: „Wir haben es nicht gewusst.“«Мы понятия не имели».We had no idea. The…