Doug Lucas
@douglaslucas
Freelance writer/journalist. Seattle based; Mexico now Bylines: Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, Salon, WhoWhatWhy, Texas Observer, Daily Dot, more DouglasLucas.com Email: DAL@RISEUP.NET For Signal or PGP, ask You know you want to: DouglasLucas.com/donate
Twilight Zone episode "The Obsolete Man", 1961, is a fave. Derrida asks whether writing or speaking comes first. Other forms of comms exist, but regardless of what answers you conceive, writing, literature, &tc. are essential to humanity's continuation. In this, a librarian refuses to denounce books
Stigmatized, neglected, epilepsy affects 50+ million globally, mostly in poorer countries. Hesperian Health Guides has a big book+new site. Underdiscussed connections among epilepsy/micro-seizures, severe manic-depression (eg. Dostoevsky), time/memory. #mentalhealth en.hesperian.org/hhg/Epilepsy...
Psychiatry discourages applying philosophy to #mentalhealth Excellent essay pulls together many common #philosophy issues pertaining to psychic well-being: 4rehma70.github.io/essays/ I drew this to help me understand "Light hits the retina and the processing that follows is immediately relational"
Lately I've been doing, most days, what I call my #OpDeathEaters homework. I daily research 3 (likely or confirmed) pedos and then research law. Obvs, each person's list could differ. Dunno why I started calling it 'homework' - maybe since it's tough to get pay/assignments. Anyone else do this?
By saying, They're eating the dogs the pets the cats of the people who live there [Springfield Ohio], Trump1 warned us about Trump2. But then, so did the Kiffness. Trump3 could be stopped by protecting those who need it. Then more feelings of safety would prevail, & he could be ignored into Trump0
Really cool take on possible/optional diff between logic & (see preceding post) math Logicians might not need to acknowledge pressure (e.g. anonymity, obscurity) Also as French postmodernists & literary theorists showcase(d), wordplay, silliness, definitional presto-chango, etc may often take over
Possible next actions: * U.S. public ed. funds arts & humanities incl. optional #AlexanderTechnique * Ponder ethics of "Me llamo [name]", a self-labelling experiment, versus "Mi nombre es [name]", an identity statement, but both constrained by music/math. * Listen to Slayer, not apex music [3/3]
Music... I wonder if there are a finite number--or better put, a usefully quantifiable number--of sounds a human can make, think, or (internally or externally or layers thereof) perceive. Those might then be related to factual dimensions, parameters, etc. The tricks of actors, musicians, more [2/3]
Great to see this topic of CCP propaganda getting more attention. In mid2024, I wrote about soft/seductive coercion and science fiction's Hugo Awards scandal in China (see embedded screenshot). douglaslucas.com/footnotes/9/...
What if, today, voters of each U.S. #vote jurisdiction assumed their midterm results will be unverified (and possibly pushed toward MAGA) & immediately began preparing, now, to scrutinize recounts, audits, et cetera? In most regions there are procedures in place you can join, scrutinize, & more. 1/2
This is a really important topic with all sorts of strange secrets and problems hidden within and without ... Great article too, as an intro to the esoteric subject. I wrote about it some halfway through one of my old blog posts douglaslucas.com/blog/2009/06...
Christina Koch (pronounced "Cook"): amazingly, diversely strong, not least of which is #ArtemisII ... she just returned from going around the Moon. Call me untimely, but my educated guess (or wild fantasia) is, she said Mic--- M--- neither early nor late, but only exactly as many times as she wanted
Photos.Fanac.Org - Longtime SF fan association FANAC's Fan History Project has now made available new & old pics from across the years. I've embedded one of theirs from the 1973 MIT #ScienceFiction Society meeting where #TheodoreSturgeon spoke. Event discussed in Feb. 1974 edition of Galaxy. #scifi
Unusual, but that nerdy factoid sort of makes me picture Street Fighter 2's default fakir, Dhalsim, except instead of doing masculinist flights of fancy such as Yoga Flame! and teleporting, he is (somehow) just yelling, as laundry detritus swarms onto his opponents, "Static Cling!"
Huge turnout for #NoKings countywide. Some are repeating "what's next?" #OpDeathEaters has been, and is; & depending on y'all, will be. Pick a pedo to research or more -- you will learn more about the world and your talents than you think. And you know what? Don't be an emotional coward! Keep going!
If Philip K. Dick were alive now, he'd no longer have a heart attack. Instead, he'd probably just faint and get diagnosed with epilepsy, perhaps as Dostoevsky did. From a logical perspective, that is an improvement, unless falling, he were to hit his head on
I can't with this shit. As agentic AIs examine more & more of endusers' devices, now we have a morbid update on professional line-standing & the like, which is "rentable meatwads" &tc.: instead of you hiring the #AI, in Kremlinccp USA, the AI hires you. rentahuman.ai tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...
About a year ago, you may recall, though memory is difficult esp. under fascism, that Elon Musk was claiming the #FAA Verizon system was "putting air travelers at serious risk." Now the Trump2 admin has been putting air travelers at serious risk. With a laser douglaslucas.com/blog/2025/04... [5/7]
Interagency breakdown in law, command, and civility - W. House / NSC FAA Transportation Dept. (Sec. Sean Duffy) Pentagon DHS / CBP Others (e.g., #ElPaso local) - could be a wedge point to shake things up / calm things down, as civilian safety should be top priority. Then, recent history, [4/6]
#FAA administrator Bryan Bedford believed he'd little choice but to close the airspace for 10 days. (Why 10 days, unclear.) His agency had explicitly warned both the Pentagon & the Trump2-downsized Nat'l. Security Council that it would do so unless the interagency dispute could be ironed out. [3/5]
"We have operationalized a stationary laser system" some Pentagoner told the FAA. #FAA Chief Counsel William L. McKenna replied: civilians could die. Likely illegal per NYT in dodging FAA approval, it was the 1st known domestic(!) use of the laser by feds outside of a controlled environment. [2/4]
Her memory palace: Article¹ on peer-reviewed,2025 study²: Autobiographical hypermnesia as mental time travel. "Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, reliving past emotion" #mentalhealth ¹ parisbraininstitute.org/news/mental-... ² www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...
In 2021, I wrote this heartfelt blog post about a failed attempt by #Seattle activists to help #AbolishICE in the summer of 2018. Let's not make the same mistakes again. douglaslucas.com/blog/2021/05...
"if the bomb fell [...] tonight, all it could do would be to kill us, which is nothing. Since, in doing that, it will have robbed itself of its own power over us: which is fear of it, the being afraid of it!" "I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail." [2/3]
Combining Faulkner speeches: "There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?" [... except ...] "the basest of all things is to be afraid" ... [1/3]
🧵As planned, U.S. Special Inspector General for #Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) terminates as agency Jan31. sigar.mil site now closed. Today SIGAR public affairs stated: USG's CyberCemetery, managed by Uni North Texas, hasn't published archival sigar.mil & SIGAR doesn't know why @xychelsea.tv