not meant to be taken seriously

  • Can the Sub-Literate Speak?

    Can the sub-literate speak? The answer to Spivak’s question is a resounding no. They can’t write either.

  • Cyberpunk and Neuralink

    The following contains numerous examples of good praxis. It’ll shock you how good it is.

  • Fake Plastic Trees

    term is good term has gone good, doing great how about you?

  • Probiotic-Blitzkrieg

    When you will have made bacteria a biome without humans, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.

  • New Year New Me

    I love the phrase “New Year New Me,” it has this undercurrent of understanding that this year will not actually feature a “new me,” the same me will make its reappearance, with a new veneer of hope that life’s trend is going upwards.

  • Digital Labor

    I’m trying to figure out a new format for my blog posts. I’m really loving the convoluted abrasiveness of (Re)mediationatizations. Let’s see if I can make this a weekly thing! (I won’t)

  • AI as Alchemy

    Enchanted determinism is when a technological system is described in terms of the sublime. It is the myriad of issues that Campolo and Crawford note that problematize what is at stake, which is that enchanted determinism does not give way easily to a disenchanted scientific rationality. They write that in the enchanted world, where data…

  • Anime Fans are Revolting

    I don’t do enough punching down.

  • Deo Ooz

    Halfway through a trip to Seoul

  • Life Became a Spectator Sport

    It is truly fantastic that no matter where you are, there’s a good chance you’ll be recorded or photographed. You have no control, no say over this at all. The man, six stories up on the wrong side of the balcony, looks down to see a sea of phones. Suicide becomes a vaudeville act.