My story idea that has been waiting for me to develop it for eight years: In an uncertain future, technology billionaires surpass nation-states in the race to space. They begin building independent colonies on different planets, owned and controlled by their corporations. Most of these colonies exist for commercial reasons: they mine valuable minerals and trade them back on Earth. Odo, the only daughter of an eccentric technology-billionaire family, has a very different vision. On Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons—unsuitable for commercial exploitation—she establishes a fully cybernetic and autonomous society. Autonomous artificial intelligences perform almost all the functions normally handled by governments, and the system works nearly flawlessly. Over time, Europa’s population and influence continue to grow. To avoid sanctions from Earth’s governments, Europa completely cuts off trade with Earth. Instead, it trades only with other space colonies. The autonomous system is designed to always act for the maximum benefit of Europa’s population and as a result, the colony becomes increasingly powerful. One day, while Odo is visiting Earth, a massive explosion occurs on Europa. One third of the colony’s population is killed. When Odo returns to Earth, all she hears is propaganda describing the autonomous system as dangerous and irresponsible. Before long, Odo realizes the truth: the explosion was orchestrated by Earth’s governments. They saw an autonomous, leaderless form of governance as a direct threat to their own power and existence. From that moment on, Odo has a single goal—to bring the autonomous system she built on Europa to Earth, and to put an end to all nation-states.

I wrote a love letter to a garden. Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico. It deserves a love letter.

My roommate thrifted this for 6,780 sats (200 lira).

bye bye europe

Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself.

Jeanne d'Arc, Georges Méliès (1900)

I’m doing The Artist’s Way and this week’s theme is abundance. It’s about healing creative blocks caused by financial stress by practicing the belief that there is more abundance. My company just told me they’re sending me extra money beacuse I’m doing an amazing job. Synchronicity.

my journaling so far in 2026

Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society by Bruno Latour It is one of the core books of Science and Technology Studies. Anthropologist Bruno Latour argues that machines and scientific facts become black-boxed over time. As they stabilize, they are taken for granted, and the complex processes, negotiations, and controversies that produced them become invisible. He suggests that instead of looking at intrinsic qualities once a fact is black-boxed, we should study science in the making, while the black box is still open and controversies are not yet settled. He proposes rules of method and principles to research science in the making, which later evolve and become the basis of Actor Network Theory. #vezirereads

Water boils at 100°C only once scientists defined and standardized temperature units.

"...Once the movement of the observer is deleted from the picture, it seems that there is an absolute divide between; on the one hand, all the cultures that 'believe' in things, and on the other hand, the one culture, ours, that 'knows' things (or will soon know them), between 'Them' and 'Us'..."