What is a rebel? (Camus)

What is a rebel?  A man who says no.

Albert Camus

Immediately

Immediately a New World needs a Newer World.

What is compassion

What is compassion that offers no compensation?

Easy

What is easy to lose is easy to love.

My vocation

My vocation is provocation.

The oscillation

The oscillation is my signature.

New poems

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The most exacting

The most exacting is the most exciting.

Too narrow

The negative is too narrow.

The counter-fit

The counter-fit is counterfeit.

Creamy Corn Soup with Chicken and Poblano Chile

Made from this recipe.

Statistics

Statistics don't dictate specifics.

Which patterns satisfy

Because of our nature, patterns are satisfying, and discovering which patterns satisfy best is perhaps the best use of our bequest.

New poems

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Everything can be seen

Everything can be seen where nothing exists.

Unconditional

Nothing in existence is unconditional. In non-existence, either.

Most useful

The most useful thing is one who dares what you don't.

Division by zero (Gemini & ChatGPT)

It’s like a machine that calculates so far it eventually encounters a division by zero. That "error" isn't a sign that the machine is a god; it's a sign that the machine has reached the edge of what "calculation" can mean.

A division-by-zero error is not a mystical event. Nothing transcendent happens. The machine hasn’t glimpsed truth; it has revealed a boundary condition. The system is functioning correctly all the way up to the moment it encounters an operation its own rules cannot stabilize. The “error” is not noise, and it’s not insight either. It’s a disclosure of scope.

There’s also an implicit ethical dimension. Once you know a system has division-by-zero points, you stop demanding infinite outputs from finite structures. You stop pretending clarity can be total. You stop mistaking fluency for adequacy. That restraint, not transcendence, is the moral achievement.

Gemini & ChatGPT

Connected

The idea that everything is connected is connected to nothing.

It is a mistake to conclude

It is a mistake to conclude that because the inflation precedes the reduction the inflation causes the reduction.