H. A. Eugene

There is a kind of quiet crazy in the world that is under appreciated, subsumed by the more obvious loud crazy.

He waved at me. I waved back and nodded like Robert Redford at the end of Jeremiah Johnson.

I was running through the falling snow when I saw a boy across the street, probably between 5-7 years of age, looking down at everything else on the block from atop the largest pile of machine-driven snow in the neighborhood.

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2035: No complaints. Comics about a fight we seem to be losing… by Datch Haven.

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You what might be way better than soccer the way it is now is a) no teams, and b) one goal with no goalie and a bunch of people on the field trying to steal the ball from each other.

A pallet of dirty, broken cigarette packs and cartons

Getting ready for the weekend

Weird, I just remembered they made a live-action Cowboy Bebop and it just went away.

Written text: I was at a summer camp for kids and they woke up the kids in the middle of the night to take them to the forest and tell spooky stories, where one of the counselors was hiding and scared them all to run back. I wanted to go but fell back asleep instead of getting up out of bed. When the kids all got back screaming and running a few of them told me what happened, but they all had wildly different stories of what happened. It was a ghost, an animal, a woman, a demon, a horse.. I learned that even if someone witnessed something firsthand, their brain will make stuff up to fill in the blanks without them even realizing they are "lying"

Long-necked dinosaurs should be renamed reachasaurus.

Finding out your homepage is down on a holiday is a new experience (I forgot to update my billing info)

Working at a computer for extended periods was easier with coffee and cigarettes.

High ambient levels of dark American-flavored absurdity.

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I’ve had this stuck in my head all morning, which means a David Lynch kind of day. youtu.be/icfq_foa5Mo?...

I walked out of the subway and was greeted by an onion rolling out from around the corner of a building, which reminded me that the world can still be strange.

So look for ways in which *we* may be detectable: explosions from their wars, unnatural groaning glows from runaway technological growth, and evidence that pollution is warming their planet. Got it.

> "So advanced, mature alien civilizations could be out there, but we would never know about them because they become so sustainable that there's no signature left us to grab onto anymore."

The Eschatian Hypothesis: Why Our First Contact From Aliens May Be Particularly Bleak, And Nothing Like The Movies In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

> "As a twist on Arthur C. Clark's famous words, science fiction author Carl Schroeder once wrote, 'Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature'," Kipping explained in an accompanying Cool Worlds video.

On the second floor of the indoor playground with the pneumatic guns that shoot ball pit balls, imagining some kid taking aim at kids below, reciting Barry Pepper's lines from Saving Private Ryan: "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight…”

RoboCop statue rises in Detroit: ‘Big, beautiful, bronze piece of art’ A 15-year quest ends with a monument, drawing crowds and nostalgia as Detroit embraces its cult-film past

Let's do Starship Troopers next

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Bluey float, chasing a red balloon.

Legendary character from Australian mythology, Bluey.

Very excited to be part of this issue!

Go ahead give this short fiction a read, about a deep sea eldritch god.

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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

What would suck is having huge chunks of your past be unrecallable because of dementia and they come and arrest you because you're apparently the Zodiac Killer.

That would be like an inverted Lost Highway.

Sepia-toned black and white picture of myself with my eyes closed, but with bent vertical lines—printing errors—running down my face.

Our kid shot this picture, which he unintentionally modified by pulling impatiently on the paper while it printed.

‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs

Can you run faster than a pack of bloodhounds?

“Image generators churn out ersatz versions of da Vinci and van Gogh. And, in every case, banal commentary is slowly occluding the art, seeping into it in boldface titles or explainers that speak over the sound or cover the image.”