Guy P. Harrison
@guyharrisonauthor
Just a simple urbanized/hypnotized eukaryote writing books along the road to extinction. I think; therefore, I'm not sure. Run fast, lift heavy. Kindness is cool.
The best answer to bad science is good science. The worst answer to bad science is to surrender your brain to dishonest or incompetent social-media actors such as Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, RFK Jr., Brett Weinstein, Candace Owens, etc. Think before you believe. #booksbyguypharrison
Belief in biological races is an inhuman heuristic. Presuming to see biological race categories in the faces of strangers and thereby know their innate potentials and limitations is unscientific and unfair. #booksbyguypharrison
“Reality cannot be ignored, except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.” — Aldous Huxley, “Religion and Time” (1943 essay) #booksbyguypharrison
Messier 77 (M77) (NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope) #NASA
Something must be fundamentally wrong with the global economic game played by humankind because its biggest winner is a total moron. #odyssey
MAKE MEASLES GREAT AGAIN The United States is currently experiencing its highest rate of measles infections in more than three decades. This is what happens when people trust the claims of con artists, imbeciles, and lunatics over the medical advice of credible doctors and scientists.
“Reading is more than a skill, or one mode of communication among many. The media we use to interact with one another shape the world we inhabit.” —Rose Horowitch, “The End of Reading is Here,” The Atlantic, July 8, 2026 #booksinmybookcasegoober #reading #books
“The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” —Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark #booksinmybookcasegoober #carlsagan
Spock: Captain, according to my tricorder readings, the timeline has been severely damaged. Kirk: Agreed. This timeline is cooked. Let's get out of here. [deleted scene from the classic Star Trek episode, "The Idiot on the Edge of Forever"] #startrek #idiocracy #kakistocracy
“I am from the future, and all of this goes horribly wrong, horribly wrong.” —Matthew Robinson, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, 2025 film #booksbyguypharrison #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
Stating the obvious: If an AI tool writes text for you, it means you did not write the text. It also means you lost an opportunity to become a better writer by writing. Using AI is fine to proofread or help with research, but putting your name on something AI wrote is not the win many believe. #AI
“The news was prioritized in a way I could not understand. For instance, there was nothing on new mathematical observations or still-undiscovered polygons, but quite a bit about politics, which on this planet was essentially all about war and money.” ―Matt Haig, The Humans #booksbyguypharrison
The guy who thinks fascist salutes are funny, gutted science research in the US, helped reelect Trump, and caused people to die with reckless foreign aid cuts is the first trillionaire in history. Something is very wrong with our civilization.
They call them Terminator drones... Ukrainian official confirms autonomous "Terminator" drones with no human oversight killed Russian soldiers. The future keeps coming, whether you pay attention or not. #AI #drones #robots #war #terminator #sciencefiction
“The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.” —Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek #somethingmycamerasawalongtheway
"Regular and repeated obvious lying is part of the process by which fascist politics destroys the information space. A fascist leader can replace truth with power, ultimately lying without consequence.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, 2018 book #booksinmybookcase
“It is hard to know how many lives may have been saved if sexism and patriarchy had not triumphed in human societies.” – Joseph L. Graves Jr., A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems, 2022 book #booksinmybookcasegoober
"Being a good person today requires thought and work." ―Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter #booksinmybookcasegoober #philosophy
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” —Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize winner in physics, The First Three Minutes, 1977 book #booksinmybookcasegoober #science
“The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself.” —Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star, 1956 novel #booksbyguypharrison #sciencefiction
“Humor heightens our sense of survival and preserves our sanity.” —Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.” —Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics, The First Three Minutes (1977) #booksinmybookcasegoober #science
“I don't challenge irrational beliefs because I'm a pessimist who thinks people are hopelessly stupid. I do it because I am an optimist who thinks people can do better.” —Guy P. Harrison, marooned in the 21st century #booksbyguypharrison
An autograph I picked up along the way... (Gene Kranz, NASA's Chief Flight Director. Directed Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, including the first Moon landing. He led the Mission Control team that helped save the crew of Apollo 13.) #anautographipickedupalongtheway
UFO Experts and Profiteers: No SETI and Professional Astrobiologists: Yes I want to believe (But I'm not gullible).
“We don’t have an intelligence problem. We have a compassion problem. That, more than any other single factor, is what’s driving us toward extinction.” —Blake Crouch, Upgrade, 2022 novel #booksbyguypharrison