Hello, again. It’s been a while since i was last here, was chained to this miserable reflecting pool. i dreamt of burning chariots and cursed the world for asking me to jump higher and higher. But hey, look. I made it. I’ll take my seat right here, next to my old, rusted shackles. There, nice and comfortable in the cold ocean spray. How have you been, my Moon with the whittled grimace? I forgot about you, to be honest. Too busy dying elsewhere to die over here. I was too busy living, too....

Around a month ago now, I got an email from Doha Debates inviting me (and anyone else who signed up at their booth during the Career Fair) to sign up for one of their upcoming debates. The question posed to the would-be debaters was as follows:   “Superintelligence, Is humanity ready for the intelligence explosion?” Putting aside that ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘intelligence explosion’ are both entirely meaningless and demagogue-like phrases, the debate topic (which should have been...

At the beginning of October, the Gazette’s board approached me and asked that I write a piece on disability, in conjunction with the month’s theme. I said “sure,” and set about thinking up an idea for an article about disability.  I kept coming up blank. In truth, I don’t think about disability all that much. It does not come up in my daily life as something to consider. I do not speak often about it with friends, family, or any communities I’m part of–including here at GU-Q. And it was...