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The Sun When It Is Behind Translucent Clouds, Pale, Moon-Like, and Painless to Gaze Upon
A naming attempt ⚪️
Jan 17
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Experiment: The Mystery of Blue Raspberry Flavor
Is it fully artificial, or related to the rare black raspberry? 🔵
Jul 16, 2025
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Deep Into the Depths
A critique of the latest AI cliché 🦑
Feb 27, 2025
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution
Natural selection as creative and purposeful problem-solving ☁️
Oct 25, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Occasionally Scheduled Reminder That You Live on One of Several Celestial Bodies Dancing Together
Total solar eclipses: utterly non-magical and utterly wonderful 🌑
Apr 10, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Children of the Geissler Tube
The most consequential technology you’ve never heard of 📺
Nov 17, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Dark Age Ahead: A Lukewarm Book Review
The testament to Jane Jacobs’s oeuvre ⬛️
Oct 25, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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What Counts as a Technology?
Considerations for the tech tree 🎸
Oct 6, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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In Defense of Tech Trees
They're a good form of 2D history; also I think we should build the master tree! 🌳
Aug 18, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Crazy Science Idea: Tell People Something Is Possible When You Actually Have No Clue
In which I also, uh, accidentally defend scientific fraud 🕴️
Aug 3, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Charting a Course of Study in Neuroaesthetics
And why I think the neural basis of beauty is important 🧠
Apr 13, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Scientific Writing Is a Miserable Grind, So Let's Outsource It to AI
Very little of the science publishing process is valuable ⚗️
Mar 23, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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