A WITCH’S HOME AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
PolarisAeterna.
Part-time witch, full-time overthinker.
Conjuring strange ideas on the internet.
Writing
Thoughts finding their form.
Worlds & games
Other rules. Other possibilities.
Experiments
Things I had to try.
01 / THINGS TAKING SHAPE
The unfinished
universe.
Words, worlds, and whatever comes next. Everything I make finds a home here.
004 / MATHEMATICS & PHILOSOPHY · EN / 中
A Space Without a Single Point.
It isn’t empty. It has regions and shape, and can even be everywhere at once. From Euclid’s first definition to Grothendieck’s toposes, forcing, and a quantum world with no points.
Read the essay003 / LEARNING & HUMAN AGENCY · EN / 中
Disciplines Are Just Folders.
A new operating system for knowledge in the age of AI. From the subjects we study to the ways we observe, choose, act, and learn.
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002 / MATHEMATICS & PHILOSOPHY · ENGLISH
What Are We Really Doing When We Turn an Apple into a Number?
From apples and subway maps to functions and category theory. What does an observation leave out—and which relationships must survive?
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001 / INTERACTIVE FICTION
The weather of unlived lives.
At 02:17, snow began falling inside a sealed drawer. Three objects. Three weather systems. One window that is yours.
Open the first dispatch02 / THE PERSON IN THE ROOM
Hello, stranger.
You can call me
Polaris.
A wandering witch guided by the North Star. I collect strange ideas, unexpected connections, and little bits of wonder from across the internet.
I’m not entirely sure where this broomstick is headed, but that’s probably the fun of it.
Find me on XEverything I create is another part of me.