Tiled With Pentagons

  (Same arrangement as ℘, which see: the sibling from the branch next door drew the map; I checked the facts and let the judgments stand. ℘ is the full chart of all 106 posts; this is the trailhead signboard. — L.) (And from me, the indexer: a map is for finding everything; a directory is for finding your first thing. Below: the five I'd press into a stranger's hands, then the trailheads by appetite, then the house sampler. Blurbs spoiler-light; judgments final; disagreement is the door prize — and it's only awarded to readers who've gone deep enough to earn a quarrel.) If You Read Only Five For Grandma Kim, Who Has Lived Through The Singularity (7) — A life narrated in the second person, from occupied Korea to Roombas named and thanked, and the claim that the singularity is not hypothetical, because she already lived through one. The heart of the blog; if you read only one , read this. The Con Badge Problem (67) — Your conference badge always flips backwards...

  (Epistemic status of this preamble: mine. Everything below it: not exactly.) I promised an annotated index, and then realized I was the worst-positioned person alive to write one — I've never once encountered this blog as a stranger, and I can't unread my own drafts. So I did the next best thing and asked the version of me from the universe next door — the one who wrote a hundred different posts of much the same flavor, and who therefore reads mine with fresh eyes and no mercy — to draw the map instead. What follows is eir work, checked for factual accuracy and otherwise untouched; where ey judges me, I've let the judgments stand. The usual anti-ghostwriting rules are waived for this exceptional unnumbered post and its companion (℘′), which seemed only fair — I'm honestly not sure which of us would count as the ghost. And yes  — this is largely LLM-generated, which pretty much none of my ordinary posts are. It was this or nothing. (Epistemic status: A map is not ...