The Mother News

Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong

The Tale of Genji

Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action

We Present Television

The History And Adventures Of An Atom

The Book of Abraham

This Is Going To Hurt

Storm Of Steel

Lee Kuan Yew’s Memoirs

The Epic Of Gilgamesh

The Escape Artist

A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands

Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais

The Ghost In My Brain

Great And Desperate Cures

Thomas Urquhart's Translation of Rabelais

How to Prevent Coups d’État

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

The Rule of Law

Timefulness

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan

The Knowledge Machine

The Inhabited Island

A Secular Age

Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self-Medicate

Aesopian Language in Russian Literature

Bellum Catilinae -- The Catiline Conspiracy

Other

Coriolanus

Fear and Trembling

1984 by George Orwell

Mother of Learning

"Mistletoe and Memorandums" by Claude

The Northern Caves

planecrash – E.S. Yudwkosky

World War Z

The Sovereign Child

Siddhartha (1922) by Herman Hesse

The Lever of Riches

Dictator Book Club: Yoweri Museveni’s Sowing The Mustard Seed

The End of History and the Last Man

The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Bible

Invisible Cities / Life: A User's Manual

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse

Capitalist Realism

Leviathan

The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth

Scenebux: A Novel

04/01 April Fools Day

12/25 Christmas

10/31 Halloween

11/03 U.S. Election Day

Thanksgiving

Winter Solstice (or winter in general)

12/31 New Year's Eve

Fall equinox (or fall in general)

Labor Day

11/11 Veterans Day/Armistice Day

Summer Solstice (or summer in general)

Any Manifest

03/08 International Women's Day

The Oscars

03/14 Pi Day

Saint Patrick's Day

Spring equinox (or spring in general)

Easter

04/22 Earth Day

05/04 Star Wars Day

05/05 Cinco de Mayo

Mother's Day

05/27 Memorial Day

06/** Pride Month

Father's Day

Juneteenth

07/04 U.S. Independence Day

Helena was pretending to be her innie in S2E01

Gemma is alive

Burt is revealed to be still working for Lumon in some capacity

Mark impregnated Helly

Jame Eagen will try to replace Helena with her innie

Lumon was involved in Gemma's death

Several/all non-severed employees have been raised by Lumon since childhood

Lumon killed or somehow hurt Selvig’s mother or other relative

All or parts of “the board” are not living humans

Innie Mark appears in S3E1 (no flashbacks)

Helena will turn against Lumon

Mark Scout and Ms Casey / Gamme Scout will be back together

Lumon’s goal is to use severance to end psychological trauma

Outie Mark appears in S3E1 (no flashbacks)

Milchick will turn against Lumon

Mark fully reintegrates

Mark and Gemma are no longer needed to complete Cold Harbor, as of S2 end

By end of S3E1, Outie Gemma has talked to someone unaffiliated with Lumon about her experience

Lumon is working on technology of resurrection

Lumon willfully reveals the technology enabled by Cold Harbor to the public by end of S3E1

Lumon’s goal is to bring back Kier, either as a person or his consciousness in some form

Sometime between end of S2 and end of S3E1, Outie Mark and Gemma meet (not necessarily on screen)

Cobel and Jame Eagen had a child

Helena was pretending to be her innie in S2E01

Cobel is Mark’s mother

Some of Ricken’s eccentric friends (Patton, Rebeck and/or others) are or were severed

Dylan will not stay alive through whole series

Mammalian Nurturables’ outies are prisoners, homeless, and/or addicts

Severance was designed for Helena

Cobel/Selvig is or was previously severed

There will be a successful suicide of one of the main characters

Cobel/Selvig is related by blood to the Eagan family

Mark Scout is from Eagan family

Lumon is cloning people

Miss Huang is from the testing floor

Miss Huang is a young clone of Ms Casey

Ms. Casey was a clone in S1

MDR are working on retrieving/decoding/interpreting the consciousness or memory of dead people

2027

2028

2026

2025

Isaac likes experimenting

You'd say you're more of a dog person than a cat person

You've been in a desert once

You regret ever making WvM (feel free to n/a if you'd rather not say)

You have ever looked through list of a Manifold user's bets to determine their position on some question

You've been vegetarian for >1 continuous year

(if you're not married) you've thought about marrying your current partner (if you're in a relationship)

You like listening to violin more than you like listening to piano

You're older than me (I'm 23)

you consider your partner to be your best friend as well

You're younger than 30

You think it's fine for minors to date adults

You consider yourself part of the rationality sphere

You think of yourself as a dog person more than a cat person

You seem to enjoy indie stuff more than the average person does

you've defected on some sort of deal you made with another person

The first book you remember reading in your life has an animal as its main character

You tend to wear the same outfit every day.

You think the effective altruism philosophy is good but the community overall is ineffective in implementing that philosophy

You've spent a day in which you read a (single) book (or similar) for 10+ hrs

You're an effective altruist

You are qorrenqial

You've read the CFAR Handbook

You've held a gun in your hands before

You've fired a gun at a target before

You've jumped out of a plane

You have attended some program or camp organised by MIRI

You've knowingly misresolved a market once even though you didn't get called out for it

You've been to a nightclub

You've passed out from drinking alcohol

You like to eat out more than you like to cook and eat

You've worked with LED strip lights

You've wondered what it'd be like to have a different name

*You* have more than 6 stuffed animals

You know >4 programming langauges

You know >= 3 natural languages (in at least one of reading, speaking, or hearing understanding)

You've felt desires to purchase a car with mana

You have a political belief that'd cause at least one close friend to cut ties if they knew about it

You wish you spent significantly less time on Manifold

You sleep more during 7am->7pm hours than during 7pm->7am hours

You prefer if these answers start with "You" than with "isaac"

You feel you're the smartest member of your close family (mother, father, siblings)

You have thought about shooting lasers from your eyes at traffic lights

You have once made a joke about your name's similarity with Martin Luther King Jr.

You think the effective altruism community is ineffective at PR and image management

Other

Shivon Zillis

Ashley St Clair

Tiffany Fong

NO

Bellonara Otherys

Other

Just a simple septa

Ashara Dayne

Tyene Sand's mother

Malora Hightower

Wenda the White Fawn

Serra Mopatis

Lady Mellario of Norvos

Elia Martell

Lady Piper (wife of Quellon Greyjoy)

YES

“Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” - Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots, May 16, 2025)

“10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” - Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 63)

“In My Country” - Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, Issue 223)

“Wire Mother” - Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld, Issue 229)

“Six People to Revise You” - J.R. Dawson (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62)

“The Millay Illusion” - Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 67)

“Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” - Martha Wells (Reactor, July 10, 2025)

“Kaiju Agonistes” - Scott Lynch (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62)

“Never Eaten Vegetables” - H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld, Issue 220)

“The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For” - Cameron Reed (Reactor, April 2, 2025)

YES