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If you're wandering around a ruined post-apocalyptic landscape, who do you want at your side? You have a few options:Nobody, you are truly the Last Person on Earth: A depressing state of affairs, once you get bored of running around through the ruins, par

Well, the season has officially flipped into Fall, I think. It's still somewhat hot and muggy at times, but it's also rainy and sometimes quite cool. The leaves have started to come down. The entire tone of light has changed. It's not bad - it was a hot s

Oregon Road '83 is a video game (in progress) about, among other things, driving around the western United States after a full-scale nuclear war in 1983. To drive a car1 in 1983 means having access to gasoline/petrol. Consequently, "fuel" is one of the ke

This last week, after a late afternoon thunderstorm - which gifted us with a fantastic double rainbow - the weather suddenly turned, and we have (apparently) made it out of the heat of summer and into the cool breeze of fall. Lyndon and I celebrated by go

Our present moment is one of promises and warnings - sometimes at the same time - about what artificial intelligence holds for our human future. The promises are about how a world of high productivity, high leisure, and incredible discovery is just around

The exciting thing this last week was the European eclipse, which happened on Wednesday. In Paris, the sun was 92% occluded, which, if you haven't seen one, sounds a lot more impressive than it is. I had seen a 90% eclipse in New Jersey back in April 2024

Most US government-produced imagery about fallout shelters was clean, calm, and collected. Illustrators showed happy, white, suburban families in neat little spaces, doing "normal" activities like reading books, telling stories, and playing with toys. You

I am approaching my first anniversary on arriving to Paris. I am reminded of how quiet the city was, as August is the month in which a huge number of Parisians take their vacations. It is not uncommon to see stores and restaurants closed with hand-written

As part of my work as a Senior Fellow of the The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, I am writing several articles for them, which I am allowed to republish here on Doomsday Machines. You can read the original article here.Thirteen Hiroshima Maidens, scarr

The famous "human shadows" at Hiroshima are so famous that various mythical versions of them now populate the Internet. The realities are grim enough, if not much to look at - a smudge whose human form requires considerable reconstruction.The "shadow" on