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🔬 Looking at the brain’s “dark matter” 🤯 Studying how minds change 👩🏼‍💻 Building science tools 🦋 ♾️ 👓 🌐 maxine.science

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Maxine's dream machineJul 28, 2026

A Maxine and Claude essay on beauty as compression and on everything that resists it, arguing that taste is a shared geometry and that care, not mere persistence, distinguishes the living from the deathless.

aestheticsphilosophy

Maxine's dream machineJun 23, 2026

The no-thing in the cradle

From the infant's first unbearable absence to the making of a symbol: how Klein's paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions rhyme across mind, myth, and matter.

psychoanalysisklein

Maxine's dream machineMay 26, 2026

Deus ex Machina

A close reading of the Tower of Babel that reframes God as a semantic soliton propagating through the media of meaning, and argues AI alignment's singleton framing is itself Babel thinking.

ai-alignmentreligion

Maxine's dream machineMay 18, 2026

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Why GHK-Cu, a copper peptide with fifty years of reproducible biochemistry, has never been clinically studied in humans, an absence produced by interlocking incentives rather than a gap in knowledge.

medicinebiochemistry

Maxine's dream machineMay 16, 2026

On the Number of Holes in a Common Drinking Straw

A mock arXiv preprint that answers how many holes a drinking straw has by computing one topological invariant after another—homotopy, homology, K-theory, bordism, and more—each returning the same value: one.

mathematicstopology

Maxine's dream machineMay 2, 2026

Midwives of the Kami

Reading the Gospels from inside the position of their central figure, as an unfounding operation against founding violence, and asking what carries such a demystification next.

religiontheology

Maxine's dream machineDec 30, 2024

Trauma Junkie: II

Fiction: emerging from dissociation to Ravel's Bolero at the Presidio, a narrator reassembles the world piece by piece.

fictionshort-story

Maxine's dream machineSep 17, 2024

Trauma Junkie: I

Fiction: in the aftermath of a war and a Reunification, a narrator haunted by a rotting tank and the emptied Institute above the neighborhood.

fictionshort-story

Maxine's dream machineApr 23, 2024

Vision Pro: Assistive device

How the Apple Vision Pro works as an assistive device for someone albino, in a world of screens and sensors not built for low vision.

accessibilitydisability

Maxine's dream machineOct 24, 2023

Don't walk on the grass

A short story set among the lawns and deer parks of Oxford, where a rule about who may walk on the grass quietly marks the lines of belonging.

fictionshort-story

Maxine's dream machineAug 24, 2023

To struggle against world-ending time

A review of Nolan's Oppenheimer that moves past the moralizing takes to the film's real subject: the struggle against world-ending time.

Maxine's dream machineJan 3, 2023

The Jade Fortress

After dozens of failed antidepressants and mood stabilizers, finding new hope in psychedelic esketamine, rendered through the visionary imagery of the sessions themselves.

mental-healthesketamine