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  • Oneida Community Limited

    The decline and fall of the Oneida community began when founder John Noyes chose to pass the commune’s leadership onto his son, Theodore. Besides being shy and awkward, Theodore was an agnostic. This change caused a schism in the community with one Communitarian, John Tower, attempting to take control himself. He and a breakaway group…

  • Oneida Stirpiculture: America’s First Eugenics Program

    The stirpiculture experiment at the Oneida commune would be the first eugenics program tested on early American soil. It went on for ten years, between 1869 and 1879. The term stirpiculture was coined by Oneida founder John Humphrey Noyes. He also developed the experiment through his interpretations of Plato, Charles Darwin, and Francis Galton. Noyes…

  • The Silverware Cult: Mutual Criticism & Male Continence

    Antique methods of social engineering at the Oneida Commune. Mutual Criticism Guilt and shame systems are more common than not among pocket societies, regardless of whether the social glue is religious, political, or plain idealistic in nature. For the long-lost Oneida Community, guilt was called “mutual criticism”. This was both an act and a sort…

  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 3

    Is conduit overfill really so bad? Extremely old news. Get on the road and ride your horse.  Ma’s kid plays the new neighborhood.  Today could be mistaken as the symbol  Of my future Blackberry. 

  • The Silverware Cult

    The Oneida Community was founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848. The commune settled near Oneida, New York, and settled on that for their name, apparently. They were religious, in the Puritan slant, with a bit of perfectionism for flavor. The main line of belief was that Jesus Christ had already returned in 70 A.D.…

  • Synopsis for Bells + Taxes

    Here’s the synopsis I’ve written so far for the Bells series. I’ll probably change it three more times before I’m happy again. Always goes that way. The territory of Palmetto, ragged and mean, was once the banishing lands for the kings of the Old World. In that sea of hills they exiled their enemies, their…

  • Royal Road

    I started serializing on Royal Road last week. I’d heard the name for years but had never looked into it. After getting invited to the flop that was Kindle Vella, I learned that I enjoy releasing bits and pieces periodically. I don’t know what it is I’m writing but it’s leaning most to dystopian fantasy.…

  • Sick Sad Sonnet No. 2

    Sick Sad Sonnets.

  • Machine Learning’s Stream of Conscious Diary

    I’ve only made a few posts here, so I should say, there’s only so much tinfoil on my walls. Enough for me not to engrave a political party onto my core identity, enough to doubt the official reasons for every war that has ever occurred. Enough to side-eye my phone. Not enough bug-out to the…

  • My Own Dead Internet

    Wonderful point of everything? I work in a field governed by strict NDAs. That being stated, the easiest way to describe my daily work without detail is that it concerns AI training. The bulk of my workload is auditing the performance of a given AI system. The work is often times more tiresome than it…

  • Right Foot, Wrong Foot

    So I wonder, about this lovely Tartaria, if this is a cope for the ugly modern world.