I built a starship to play video games in

The author on the bridge of the Evelynne Christine somewhere in orbit over Ross 263.

Around the middle part of 2024, just as a dire political season kicked off in earnest, I realized I needed to change my diet. Not the kind of food I ate, but the kind of news media I consumed and, most importantly, how frequently I consumed it. I badly needed stronger firewalls to keep the outside world from intruding on my private time, and the solution I came up with was to surround m...