In other words, even when confronted with evidence of our own inferiority, we resist a robot’s help.

At the end of the Kali Age, the mare who lives at the bottom of the ocean will open her mouth and a poisonous fire will burst out of her, coming up out of hell; it will burn the whole universe, gods and constellations and all.  And then the seven clouds of doomsday will flood the earth until everything is a single ocean.  You alone will survive, together with the sun and moon, several gods, and the great religious texts and sciences.

Today in Hindu myths that are Totally Fucking Metal

Parents, teachers and cheesy after-school specials have long tried to convince kids that being cool and popular isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Now scientists are chiming in as well.

One of the reasons this book is so long is that I wanted to show how very much there is of all that the egg faction would deny.

The convoluted logic of the rabbit’s act of self-violence, in his determination to protect anyone else from committing an act of violence against any other animal, is a theme that we will often encounter.

It’s hard not to feel revulsion for everything while reading this book – certainly the human body, sex, thought, animals, and life itself.

Malbolge was specifically designed to be nearly impossible to program in. It builds on the difficulty of earlier, challenging esolangs (such as brainfuck and Befunge), but takes this aspect to the extreme, playing on the entangled histories of computer science and encryption. Weaknesses in the design have been found that make it possible (though still very difficult) to write useful Malbolge programs.

The goal was exposing people like you, Damien, and you can try to say I failed, but poor, depressed little British man, my campaign consisting of manatees, big eyed puppies, and cartoon moose rocked your little world so badly that you’ve repeatedly talked about it in your national newspaper column now.

There are metaphysicians who tell me that time has actually collapsed.