Scripting this one took a while. My first drafts, following on lindsey’s tweets, also talked about how forensic “science” will be used to prosecute, regardless of if it’s reliable.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory we think of forensics as a very reliable science – just look at what they do with it on CSI! But in practice, it’s a field that’s bursting with pseudoscience, corruption, and guesswork disguised as certainty.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory to give just one example, identifying people based on bite-marks is completely unreliable – but one that’s been used to prosecute people. There are horrifying stories of dubious convictions based on unscientific nonsense about burn patterns – including at least one execution.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory bloodstain analysis, which seems so certain on dexter, is anything but. Even fingerprints are less reliable than sherlock holmes believed.

Then, what should the situation be?Jean piaget cognitive learning theory I knew I wanted the gag to be a ban proponent telling the horrifying truth about what a mifepristone ban would look like, and then correcting himself in the final panel.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory my first thought was a senator at a press conference, telling the truth in thought balloons but then saying the sanitized version aloud; then I tried a senator being briefed by a pro-life lobbyist.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory

JKM: so it was like the year 1997? Ish? I don’t know. A little before Y2K, when I would have had to get out of the field of computer science (for, like, obvious reasons) anyway.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory and I was looking for something good to write because, y’know, it’s not like one can stop the writing, right? I mean, one tries, right, one goes and, like, tries to pursue other careers, or, curls up in one’s closet and wails in despair, or, moves to china and tries to become a foreign pop idol—like, jenna starlight sparkles; what ever—but then one has barely turned around again before discovering that one has just been writing.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory I mean, y’know? (it is only when one has sighed and given in and accepted that one must be a writer that there is a possibility, er, uh, probability, … near-certainty?Jean piaget cognitive learning theory uh, that the words will stop.) but, anyway, so, I was looking for something good to write, and naturally I settled on pornography; only, being a … regrettably … uh, prudish?Jean piaget cognitive learning theory person, I had to use fairly roundabout and esoteric euphemisms for everything. Long story short, it accidentally came out as an urban fantasy roleplaying game about people with conceptual powers in a world under existential threat from the inhabitants of the beyond. ( if you know what I mean, and I think you do.) only, in fact, despite that parenthetical that I have just shared with you, hardly anybody knew what I meant, or, at least, I think they didn’t?Jean piaget cognitive learning theory and once it got popular, I was way, way too embarrassed to ever tell anyone. I had thought that, like, 2000-era fanfic would have sensitized people to it?Jean piaget cognitive learning theory you know, to, uh, roundabout euphemisms? Like, what with, you know, all that, “his melancholy duck quacked down into the shimmering epilimnion of her pond” kind of thing that was, like, the style of the time?Jean piaget cognitive learning theory but apparently “each player designs a player character (PC for short), one of the protagonists in the story” was just one bridge too far. So now, suddenly, instead of taking my pornography into the bedroom, people were, y’know, propping it up on the coffee table and showing it to their parents and inviting groups of friends and strangers to their houses to talk about it together and I thought suddenly, wait.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory what if I just did this as a business and wrote for rpgs instead?

JKM: I suspect she is wondering if she is sleeping correctly. She is wondering if, perhaps, there is some proper way of sleeping that she was meant to be practicing, but which no one has ever explicitly explained to her, only making allusions to it, talking about “catnaps,” and sleeping awkwardly in her vicinity instead, and leaving her with no recourse but to guess.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory

It is not her fault that nobody has taught her how to sleep correctly. It is not her fault that nobody has explained how to get past the top shelf of the bookshelf to the notional higher height that she knows must, logically, exist— for it would not make sense for a mathematical series to carry itself to the top of the bookshelf and then stop— or what the exact rules as to when she may use the two litterboxes that are reserved entirely for her use, that she has access to 24/7, are.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory it is not her fault that the correct propitiation to the household gods to allow her to go upstairs sans incident has not been made; if the upstairs cat would just tell her what the format of that ritual is supposed to be …

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It is obvious, she believes, that there must be rules as to their use, because they cannot be used by a single cat, alone. A single cat, alone, entering the litterbox, enters a kind of quantum state— nobody has ever given her a proper explanation of quantum physics, so physicists must forgive her if she gets this wrong— enters a kind of “quantum state” where one may exist, in the outside world, or one may not.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory arguably, when one enters into the box, as a fully defined and differentiated entity, one ceases therewith to be. The only anodyne to this noisome quandary is witness: to be witnessed, to have independent affirmation of one’s existence, to have an external force creating continuity from one’s entrance into the box … to one’s exit.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory but much of the time, this warrant cannot be obtained; no witness can be pressed into service; and the litterboxes, therefore, must lie fallow: the proper rules for this are, as yet, unknown.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory

Outside the window, in the vaster, greater world, where monsters roam— she knows this; one presses its face against the window, sometimes, at night— there may be entities that know the rules to all such things.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory outside the window, one day, if the hominids would only leave the window open at all times as she has asked them to, she may smell and hear as one such beast walks past:

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JKM: my major project right now is glitch: A story of the not , which is an RPG about surprisingly relatable evil gods who don’t actually know what they’re doing with their lives but are pretty sure that it shouldn’t actually be bringing an end to everything like they had previously thought.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory I guess the central thesis of the game is something like, “so, there’s an intrinsic universal characteristic of suffering— what do you do?” only, unlike some rpgs, you can’t then roll for initiative against the intrinsic universal characteristic of suffering, because glitch uses a cost-based system instead of dice.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory

Queued up behind that is A book of golden hours , which represents a quixotic effort to break character arcs down into eight basic stories, split that again based on whether the character is getting cooperation, active interference, or neither from the world, and turn the result into twenty-four character classes with powers abstract and high-level enough that each can actually handle the roughly 4% of fictional characters that they wind up representing.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory it’s not just an RPG supplement, it’s also a unique work of orphic cubist literary criticism!

Then there’s adventures on the far roofs, which is about fighting god-monsters with heroic talking rats at your side up on the rooftops out where the roofs start to blend together until you can’t be sure there are actually any houses underneath.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory that one’s been written for a long time, but it uses content from A book of golden hours so it can’t come first.

I grew up with that rule. I learned it for the first time in an art class when I was probably still in single age digits.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory my art teacher painted abstracts, but her classes were aimed at giving children a strong grounding in composition and sketching. Why? Because we needed to know the rules before we went searching for our own styles of breaking them.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory

I’m not sure if lily yu knew all the rules when she wrote “ the cartographer wasps and the anarchist bees” but it’s an absolutely amazing story that breaks a ridiculous number of rules.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory it’s beautiful, and it’s stirring, and it’s unique. It’s one of the best stories in the past decade. It established lily as a passionate, brilliant writer all in a single swoop.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory do you know how unusual that is? (you probably do!) it’s not uncommon for people to become lightning strikes with a single novel–but for a single short story to provide that much light and electricity?Jean piaget cognitive learning theory totally shocking. A wonderful black swan.

While I was still trying to learn the rules as fast and as well as I could, there was often a freedom to my writing which is much more restricted now.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory now, when I’m writing, and I’m trying to figure out to do, I can list the traditional options, I can elucidate the rules governing the situation, and why they work, and the usual ways of breaking them–and the consequences thereof.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory I pick the one that makes most sense for me. All very tidy.

Before, I had to grab at something uncertain. Maybe it was the right tool for the job–the one I’d use now–or maybe it wasn’t.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory sometimes when you write with the wrong tools, you find that you’ve made something beautifully unexpected, something you couldn’t even have predicted in yourself.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory things you don’t intend can evolve into wildness, into tangles, into novelty.

Writers who know all the rules might still choose to make a cellophane dress.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory if they’re very good at this sort of thing, it might still have the sense of unexpected freedom as the dress made by the person who ended up with cellophane because they didn’t understand fabric yet.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory but ultimately, the art of someone fumbling to explore, and the art of someone aiming at their goals with precision, don’t usually look the same.Jean piaget cognitive learning theory