Made in a Lab

A project by Malcolm Cosenza

Notes, marginalia and thoughts unfinished. Fellow creators the creator seeks.

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La neve in fondo al mare cover Orlando cover Stai calmo e usa le parole giuste nel giusto ordine cover The Atrocity Exhibition cover The Sandman cover 2666 cover Candide cover China in Ten Words cover Classic Shell Scripting cover To Live cover Mort cover On the Nature of Things cover The Road cover The Shadow of the Wind cover Fight Club cover White Fang cover Neuromancer cover L'ubicazione del bene cover A Clash of Kings cover A Clockwork Orange cover A Dance with Dragons cover A Feast for Crows cover A Game of Thrones cover A Storm of Swords cover Accabadora cover Alice's Adventures in Wonderland cover An Imaginary Life cover Angels & Demons cover Animal Farm cover Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection cover Baumgartner cover Brave New World cover Brisingr cover Camp Red Moon cover Casino totale cover Catch-22 cover Catching Fire cover Children of Dune cover Children of the Mind cover Cloud Atlas cover Coraline cover Cosmopolis cover Cuore di tenebra cover Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places cover Dawnshard cover De rerum natura cover Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover Dialogues of Plato cover Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? cover Doppio sogno cover Dune cover Dune Messiah: Book Two in the Dune Chronicles cover Edgedancer cover Eldest cover Ender in Exile cover Ender's Game cover Ender's Shadow cover Eragon cover Eye of the Needle cover Fahrenheit 451 cover Fall of Giants cover Flatlandia cover Forward the Foundation cover Foundation cover Foundation and Earth cover Foundation and Empire cover Foundation's Edge cover Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets cover Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows cover Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire cover Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cover Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone cover Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban cover Heart of Darkness cover House of Leaves cover House Rules: A Novel cover How to Spot a Fascist cover Hyperion cover I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream cover I, Robot cover Il dottor Jeckyll e Mr Hyde cover Il lupo nella steppa cover Il mago del Cremlino cover Inferno cover Inheritance cover It cover Junji Ito: Frankenstein cover Klara and the Sun cover L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello cover La canzone di Achille cover La cura Schopenhauer cover La mano sinistra delle tenebre cover La mostra delle atrocità cover La vegetariana cover Lapvona cover Le braci cover Le città invisibili cover Le lacrime di Nietzsche cover Le otto montagne cover Le Paradis Perdu cover Leggere Lolita a Teheran cover LMVDM. La mia vita disegnata male cover Lo straniero cover Looking for Alaska cover Macbeth cover Marina cover Mattatoio n. 5 cover Meditations cover Mistborn: Secret History cover Mistborn: The Final Empire cover Moby Dick cover Mockingjay cover Monkey King: Journey to the West cover Mr Gwyn cover Mr Palomar cover Much Ado About Nothing cover Never Let Me Go cover Non lasciarmi cover Northanger Abbey cover Norwegian wood cover Oathbringer cover Old Man's War cover One Billion Americans cover Paprika cover Paradise Regained: A Poem In Four Books cover Pelle d'uomo cover Perfume cover Persepolis cover Pomodori verdi fritti al Whistle Stop cover Prelude to Foundation cover Prince Caspian cover Project Hail Mary cover Quel che affidiamo al vento cover Quel che affidiamo al vento cover Rhythm of War cover Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building cover Second Foundation cover Seta cover Shadow of the Giant cover Shadow of the Hegemon cover Shadows of Self: A Mistborn Novel cover Shinto the Kami Way cover Siddhartha cover Silk cover Speak, Memory cover Speaker for the Dead cover The Alchemist cover The Alloy of Law: Mistborn, Book 4 cover The Amber Spyglass cover The Art of War cover The Bands of Mourning cover The Black Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" cover The Call of the Wild cover The Circle cover The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft cover The Da Vinci Code cover The Dark Tower cover The Eight Mountains cover The Eleventh Metal cover The Emperor's Soul cover The Golden Compass cover The Great Gatsby cover The Hero of Ages cover The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover The Hobbit, or There and Back Again cover The Horse and His Boy cover The Hunger Games cover The Iliad cover The Jungle Book cover The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind cover The Last Battle cover The Last Ring-Bearer cover The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe cover The Little Prince cover The Lord of the Rings cover The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Ring Sets Out cover The Lost Metal cover The Lost Symbol cover The Magician's Nephew cover The Martian cover The Merchant of Venice cover The Metamorphosis cover The Name of the Rose cover The Neverending Story cover The Old Man and the Sea cover The Other Side cover The Picture of Dorian Gray cover The Pillars of the Earth cover The Restaurant at the End of the Universe cover The Return of the King cover The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025 cover The Silmarillion cover The Silver Chair cover The Song of Achilles cover The Sound Of Waves cover The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde cover The Stranger cover The Subtle Knife cover The Sun Also Rises cover The Sunlit Man: A Cosmere Novel cover The Tempest cover The Three-Body Problem cover The Time Machine cover The Two Towers cover The Vegetarian cover The Voyage of the Dawn Treader cover The Way of Kings cover The Well of Ascension cover The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones cover Thinking, Fast and Slow cover This Is How You Lose The Time War cover To Kill A Mockingbird cover Tomie, Vol. 1 cover Tress of the Emerald Sea cover Un amore cover Una barca nel bosco cover Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più cover Uomini senza donne cover Uzumaki cover Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 cover Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2 cover Vermis, Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods cover Warbreaker cover Watchmen cover Wind and Truth: Book Five of the Stormlight Archive cover Words of Radiance cover World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War cover World Without End cover Xenocide cover Yellowface cover You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella cover Yumi and the Nightmare Painter cover Zero to One cover

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Palantir

A strange company, a name taken from Tolkien, and one thing it actually does.

Apr 21, 2026

About grief

Grief is something you experience only once. It clings to you and gets woken up at random times.
Maybe somebody else dies and it flares up, it's not new.
Grief changes you in ways you cannot anticipate, I became a ticking time bomb.

Dec 23, 2025

The manifesting girls are right

Manifesting gets written off as the hobby of chronically-online influencers, but the same practice is sold back to young men as discipline. The useful part is real; the magic part is not.

Dec 17, 2025