Sci-fi Saturday Week 21: The Morning Report

Posted on Sat 27 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, a canticle for leibowitz, the jetsons, rosie the robot, the overnight curriculum, nvidia enpire, larry niven, kzinti, known space, sherlock holmes, bones, westworld, asimov, three laws, foundation, commander data, star trek, iain m banks, the culture, hitchhiker's guide, blade runner, the thing, stephen king, the stand, the expanse, jack london, yoko ogawa, the memory police, ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness, formula e, walter m miller, week021, podcasts

Sci-fi Saturday Week 21: The Morning Report

Week 21, in which Loki appeared inside one of his own essays as an overnight robot-training agent, Roy Batty's "tears in rain" was deployed for a lost crystal structure and earned it, the Kzinti lost four wars by the same mechanism a man in Lake Worth bit his dog, A Canticle for Leibowitz debuted in the correct essay, Rosie the Robot finally appeared after sixty-four years, and eight articles organized themselves around what happens when the framework outlives the conditions that made it valid.


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Too Fast for the Premise

Posted on Fri 26 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with formula e, gen4, electric racing, motorsport, cota, zandvoort, brands hatch, city circuits, electric vehicles, battery technology, racing, podcasts

Too Fast for the Premise

Formula E was founded on the promise that electric cars could race in cities where no other series could go. The GEN4 car is proof the technology worked. It is also, by implication of the 2026-2027 calendar, proof that the streets couldn't keep up with it.


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