Notes on BLAXXKY
Origin story, website, plans...
I’ve owned this domain on and off for years. First I used it for some crypto experiments, but at some point I became disenchanted with crypto and dropped it.
When I thought of the name I was inspired by Rachel Armstrong’s concept of Black Sky Thinking (1, 2) and by blaxxun, a legendary early virtual reality (VR) company whose name was in turn inspired by the VR club Black Sun in Neal Stephenson’s novel “Snow Crash.”
In the meantime
has launched Black Sky Society and I have joined it. So we’ve launched this website as a Black Sky Society media outlet.This website is called BLAXXKY (or Blaxxky, or blaxxky) dot com. It lives on Substack with the custom domain blaxxky.com. It can be accessed as https://www.blaxxky.com/ and https://blaxxky.com/ (which is redirected to https://www.blaxxky.com/). https://blaxxky.substack.com/ also works.
Blaxxky will be paywalled for subscribers only, with occasional free posts. We haven’t put the paywall in places yet, but we are collecting pledges.
We’ll also publish audio/video podcasts and VR experiences/events.
Some old posts will be republished with other material in a free zine that we’ll issue every now and then. Zine issues will be also distributed as PDF documents on torrent and other p2p networks. With the zine, digitally signed, we’ll protect and preserve our content in case the bad guys want to censor and cancel us.
The zine will emulate those old zines (like the late lamented “Extropy” that made the history of futurist ideas. To reproduce the old good “letters to the editor” we’ll include in the zine selected comments posted here or to the p2p networks where the zine is distributed, or emailed to mail@blaxxky.com. The commenters who want anonymity are encouraged to use secure and untraceable email.
So what kind of content can you expect to see here? This post by
is representative.I’m known for writing weird stuff about science, philosophy, metaphysics and even (God forbid) religion, but be warned, my writings so far are a model of unimaginative restraint compared to the wild unhinged weirdness (but, mind you, high quality weirdness) that you’ll see here. But I like the idea of being in a room with people weirder than me.
Here, I’ll try and be more unhinged myself. I’ll forget plausible deniability and write freely about *really* wild sci/tech & philosophy and the mystic normalcy of paranormal (aka psi) phenomena.
In all my books I’ve said that occult paranormal phenomena are totally compatible with my worldview. For example, in my last book I said: “I think psi research is important and needed, and don’t rule out the possibility that it could result in big scientific breakthroughs.” But I haven’t delved deep into psi so far. I intend to do so here.