“Confronting a new diary entry appears agonizingly close to the experience of losing one’s virginity. Pressure, the conflicting needs of getting it over with and delaying it for as long as possible, the timidity masquerading as confidence until I can no longer fool myself of my gross ineptitude and lack of command over my organs.”

“Many autists do struggle in a world that has been determined and structured by allists, particularly in educational and work settings. Theoretically, if these environments can be re-structured and re-determined so that an autist can flourish, the ease with which they interact with this environment would mean anybody observing would think everything was normal. This means that those who control the environment control what is normal.”

“Using the voice as a switch feels like cheapening ourselves. The voice has energy requirements and so it is a limited, and therefore a precious resource. The voice activated assistants do not care about you and are only concerned with listening, keeping a record of the functions you request, and providing you with information that will take more of your money or more of your time, and you have to use an integral part of yourself to get any use out of it.”

“Excruciating physical pain for extended periods of time tends to elicit the most powerful response, and I think a case can be made that it is this response that the sadist wants to see and experience as it gives them pleasure. This opens the doors to consider inflicting pain on others as a perverted desire for intimacy. ”

“Viewing time as circular protects us from the burden of thought, but it also creates the burden of finding meaning in recurrence where there perhaps isn’t any.”

“If I had been artificially created and genuinely had artificial intelligence, I would be offended that there was once a time when the magic of me was abased to a trite mechanism for exploiting and controlling markets.”