📚 References & Lore
- Roman Numerals — A Counting System With No Zero and No Regrets
- Zero — The Number the Romans Refused to Invent
- Bureaucracy — Designed to Absorb Your Problem Without Solving It
- Time Perception — Why Everything Speeds Up and What Your Brain Is Actually Doing
- SpaceX IPO — Rockets, Buzzwords, and the Light of Consciousness
- Elon Musk — Mr. Green Called It
- Reddit — Community Left, Algorithms Arrived, LLMs Moved In
- LLMs & Engagement Bots — The Post You Just Read Was Not Written by a Person
- Star Trek — The Helmsman Flies the Ship, the Captain Has a Captain Thing
- Chewbacca — Doing the Flying Most of the Time
- Skull Pirates — Someone Should Really Report This
- Holographic Cigarettes — The Comedy Is in the Object
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This week: the Intergalactic House of Waffles, holographic cigarettes, and RoboBureaucracy.
Mr. Green needs to file a skull pirate attack report. The robot assigned to receive it does not care. The system was not built for skull pirates. The system was not really built for anything.
Then: why time speeds up as you age and your brain starts filtering out novelty, the SpaceX IPO prospectus reads like a hype bot trained on rocket photos and the phrase "light of consciousness," Mr. Green called it on Elon Musk, Reddit is cooked and probably always was, and the Moonshine Spaceship captain debate is settled once and for all — you're the helmsman, Green is Han, Chewy does the flying.
Also the Intergalactic House of Waffles shirt is $16 on TeePublic. Wear it and refuse to explain it. It will be worth something someday. Probably.
The Romans had no word for zero. This was Mike's problem. He handled it professionally.