Zeta Syanthis @zetasyanthis@awoo.space

Safely on the ground in Tucson!

On to Tucson! Love you all! (In my absence assume a continuing stream of mind blowing.)

Not by half. Holy <completely incoherent string of curse words in as many languages as there are skies>. D:

Also, holy crap... Hogarth is too sneaky by half. XD

Okay, yeah, this book is frighteningly good. Earthrise was good, but this is *magnificent*.

Also, TFW you literally do not want to eat so you can keep reading an amazing book. D: (Rosepoint by M.C.A. Hogarth)

Safely on the ground in LAS, also. Next flight leaves for TUS in a couple hours. :)

Oh, and credit to @makyo​ for reminding me how important reminding people you love them is. <3 (During travel specifically, but it's important in general.)

Boarding for LAS on my way for DakotaSpazz's birthday in TUS! Love you all! <3

And with that, I'm going to bow out for the night. Flying to Tucson in the morning, and I need to get my rest. Love you all. <3

RE: last posts... I know (and hope) not many of the decisions you will make will have as terrible of ramifications as mine have had, but I urge you to be careful, and to protect the trust of those who are most vulnerable, regardless of what anyone else may ask.

*I* have become death, destroyer of worlds. And I wish I could undo my mistake.

... Anyways, that's my spiel on ethics. Don't learn the hard way. Just don't.

My only solace is that a peace agreement was recently signed that has a serious hope of ending that war for good. >.<

And yes, I should have known better, should have seen more clearly what ramifications what I was building *could* have, but I didn't. And I made a terrible mistake.

Ever since, my focus has been healing, and I know of at least one life that I've managed to save. It's a start, but I have a long way to go.

I responded to him with the following:

For what little it's worth, after a piece of technology I helped develop was used to call down an airstrike, I left defense forever.

That was not its intended purpose, and many other things could have been done with the technology, but that's what they chose to do.

And I have to live with that, even though I have no idea how many have died because of me.

Saw something from a friend of mine (on twitter) that made me want to really drive the point home. He was talking about ethics in tech, and ended his posts with the following:

The legacy of the Manhattan Project isn’t Oppenheimer being quoted as saying “oh man look at this sweet-ass research we did!”

And he's right. And I want to share something so that you can understand the stakes.

(Source thread) https://twitter.com/matrioshkadog/status/925974611686232064

Trust me? :) https://twitter.com/sawdustbear/status/924719619180339200

I just had a dream so intricate that it took me 600 words+ to type it all out. Holy moly.

I nearly died, and I don't want you to!

And yeah, I was upset enough that I DID THE BLOODY MATH!