Alan Heah

2026 May week 3

cyborg recycled, eaten

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Alan Heah
May 10, 2026
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2026 Apr 2 Thu 10:26. Ang Mo Kio, Singapore.

May 11 to 17

1 - I said I wanted to be a good cybernetic organism with my smart tool, but a story showed me in detail when your tool talks back, does to you what is ultimately best for your own catharsis, and never hesitates to sacrifice and break down when it’s finished serving you all it can. It reminds me that human tech is still machines we made, however much of our nature we think we imbue into them. Perhaps this is why they are still our children, not the messy, biological, analogue ones.

2 - Ultimate recycling, as science fiction writing now continues challenging us like no ‘Ollywood can, could. Safely genegineered honey bees converting people and animals passed on into unique flavours.

Come on, you eat geographically distinct toilet-stink luxury fruit called durian. And wriggling worms called prawns. Enjoy the food that your ancestors one day long ago, and descendants one day down the ages, will pass stages through.

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