Which Glitch Shall We Untangle?

I’m glad you sent this scattershot dossier of oddities — it feels like a map of curiosity itself. Each link you shared is a different aperture onto the same question: why do certain moments, images, or beliefs feel like a seam tearing in the fabric of our reality?

Before I dive in I want to make sure I focus where you want me to. Here are the directions I can take, with a short remark on each and a pointer to the source you provided. Pick one and I’ll write a deeper piece from there.

• Black cats and folklore — why ordinary biology becomes myth. A gentle, humane reflection on how superstition persists and what it costs living creatures. See: Black Cat Facts.

• Eyewitness glitches and modern folklore — raw, first-person accounts of events that feel impossible and the culture that collects them. This is the human archive of the uncanny. See: r/Glitchinthe_Matrix.

• Collective false memories (the Mandela Effect) — how groups remember differently and what that says about memory, media, and identity. I can explore psychological explanations and the metaphors we borrow (parallel universes, timeline edits). See: What Is the Mandela Effect? 55 Examples.

• Visual glitches and the simulation metaphor — a playful but serious look at the images people present as evidence that reality has seams (pixelated shadows, duplicated objects), and why the simulation idea is a modern myth. See: 20 Bizarre Images That Suggest We’re in a Simulation.

• Technological pessimism and institutional critique — a slower, philosophical essay connecting glitches (literal and metaphorical) to our dependence on fragile systems: libraries, code, and the political economy of technology. See: LibrarianShipwreck.

• Culture and place — an oddly specific detour: cinemas, public spaces, and the ways shared experiences (like watching a film) anchor reality. I can use the Yelp Honolulu cinema list as a springboard for thinking about communal rituals that resist the sense of fracture. See: Top 10 Best Cinema in Honolulu, HI.

If you want, I’ll also weave two threads together — for example, the Mandela Effect and personal eyewitness glitches, or the simulation images and the librarian/tech critique — to show how different strains of modern thought converge on the same existential question.

Which of these would you like me to write about next? Name one (or two) and I’ll begin.

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Regards,
Hemen Parekh