I’m curious about how people imagine the future. Do you see it as possibility, uncertainty, opportunity? Who do you listen to when it comes to what’s next? I made a short survey to collect perspectives — would love to hear yours: www.surveymonkey.com/r/9RQ6LBB

Does anyone else have freaking calming pet music on for their anxiety prone dog and have forgotten what techno sounds like?

TFW I'm heads down in a cybersecurity document revision and come across my mislaid hard boiled cop research for my musical in development in the same folder. Sure I'll take hard boiled cybersecurity cop vibes!

How am I coping with reality? Spending time with my past self. Just hit my writing goal for the week and we're 13k words into this thing. #52prompts #amwriting

Felt that lil baby #earthquake out in the hi desert. East Coast HB is sad he didn't feel his first one.

Finished my weekly writing word count, celebrated with coconut cream pie by the amazing Chef Matt. Got feedback on my chapter on Future Security Threats & been working hard getting sponsorships for Diana Initiative. Feels like a good week, even if I didn't do any paid speaking prospecting.

Wow. What a morning to be alive in!

Genius reminding him he fired people for sport.

Gordons Gins is really necessary for a good Vesper. What is your favorite #vesper recipe? #cocktailbluesky

Also what are some good movies for a bachelorette weekend?

Me: this is a really delicious French 75. You used that new French champagne? How much was it again (me expecting it to be like $20.) Husband: (sheepishly) $55 Me: Damn straight this better be the best French 75 I ever had! (It really is delicious.)

Must read by probably the most knowledgable-balanced-experienced American who can speak clearly about the nuances of the situation. singjupost.com/transcript-w...

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

I came across the phrase “China wants to be US and Russia wants to destroy US” while research the Future of Espionage chapter of my spy book. I think about that phrase almost every day. I think both have now succeeded. 😭😭😭 The end of an era.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Of all motherfuckers, I can’t believe the country is going down with this motherfucker.

I am embarrassed to be an American. Good thing I consider myself an Angelino first and a Californian second. I’m so sorry world.

Excellent Music! #HostileGovernmentTakeover Now on iTunes! www.instagram.com/reel/DGRyql4...

Spoiler alert: #severance is the MacGuffin.

Thought of the day: #deepseek is a reflexive control attack on the techbros.

All the #deepseek drama reminded me of my 2020 piece on the role of counterfeiters in innovation. medium.com/in-present-t...

There's only millions that lose their jobs & homes & sometimes accents There's only millions that die in their bloody wars, it's alright It's only their lives & the lives of their next of kin that they are losing Don't worry, shut up, sit down, Go with it & be happy #lyricsgame #pingpong #stereolab

I love/hate my brain. I was almost done w/ this writing today & then thought, let's do a comparative analysis of these 12+ scenarios, identify key change variables, identify the new threats each one increases (or decreases) & rank them in order of preference for positive human innovation.

Do yourself a favor and learn about reflexive control.

Tonight’s study: The Third Man, Alphaville, Zentropa/Europe, Poirot. Joe the dog does not like Lars Von Trier’s Five Obstructions. I drink champagne and do my research. Pebbles was a fancy art deco lady and misses tea and roses.

Here are some photos of my dogs. They like to chew the faces off their toys.

Winter is here. Below zero and ice and frost on the inside of the windows and the husband says we are never coming to Colorado in the winter again. I have succeeded in proving the desert in winter is the best!

The Department of Justice building last night in Washington, DC

This week I had an unusual burst of writing and wrote a shitty draft of my first feature film in 24 hours. It’s a story I’ve been working on for a couple years, inspired by a story in one of my books that I just couldn’t shake.

This morning I sooth myself with Brazilian bossa nova. And try to focus on this 4th draft of Chapter 29: Present and Future Risks to the Research Security Enterprise. So many variables... you've got to have an ADHD brain to juggle them all. Don't ask me to streamline them, embrace the complexity.

Every time Toxygene plays I think how much I love this song and it’s the bastardized remix of Oxygene and how pissed off Jean Michele Jarre must have been to reject such beautiful music. All those times jamming out with the top down driving around Hollywood blasting the orb.

I swear to fg these developers in El Paso County, Colorado that want to cut down all the ponderosa pines and build gas stations are gonna be the thing that radicalizes me into the full blown Berkeley environmentalist I have shoved under an REI down sleeping bag & climbing shoes.

It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

OK, I've finally logged in & followed all you loveley people. If you RT too much stuff I'll probably unfollow you. No hard feelings. I'm attempting to be more conscious about my social media this time. I mean, why can't we all just re-activate our ryze.com profiles circa 1999?

I’m so devastated by the #lafires. My beloved city in flames. I ache with the loss.

Alright, guess I am going to get serious about being present here. Hi! And all these LA fires so totally suck.

best black friday deal

Do not speak to me of the grand exoduses of the nineties. I was in the first flame wars. I’ve been banned from sites you’ve never heard of. My chats, lost to history. Text files long composted into the dirt of servers past.

Also, I will get around to re-following people soon. I'm promising to myself to not live on bsky as much as I did on twitter, even though that resulted me in getting an amazing husband!

This is new. Drinking + ChatGPT + Deadline. It's like tipsy me and straight-edge me are working together and it's amazing. (PS. I highly edit everything that comes out of chatgpt, even the stuff that has been programmed on hundreds and hundreds of pages of my own writing.)

Nothing I like better than discussing quantum physics, the multiverse, emptiness, the material of potential, the collapse from super position, how to express a phenomenon in time from a perspective where time does not exist, etc over Sunday morning latte & matcha.

Starting to see new possible futures, that I never anticipated years ago. But yet, my intuitive interests already pulled me in the direction. #pocketsofthefuture

In 2012, I wrote this piece to understand how we might approach our impossible problems. 12 years later we still have them AND new ones. The epiphany isn’t that these are just "problems." It’s our problems are the result of solutions to previous problems. heathervescent.medium.com/how-to-save-...

When I say this is the “safe place” I don’t mean safe from discourse, difference in opinions, occasional fat jokes, and tom foolery.. I mean it’s safe from propaganda programmed bots, harmful rage bait, reckless unchecked racist rhetoric and unsolicited temu ads

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Tried to watch Megalopolis - the new Coppola film. Now I love weird, cryptic, indecipherable films, but I couldn’t get through more than an hour. I’m considering Fellini’s Satyricon or Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain as palate cleansers. Also holy hell Jodorowsky should have made DUNE.

I just came here to scroll through and read random posts from people I knew in person (like 10 years ago) and it has been a very satisfying experience. A++ #bluesky Will come back again.

OMG! I'm here for this.