We went down the steps to his basement and that was where Tom showed me the machine. He said he’d been feeding it Shakespeare, buying up all the charity-shop paperbacks and tossing them in the front hatch. Looked a bit like a pizza oven, but plated in chrome and with a faint whirring sound you […]
We went down the steps to his basement and that was where Tom showed me the machine. He said he’d been feeding it Shakespeare, buying up all the charity-shop paperbacks and tossing them in the front hatch. Looked a bit like a pizza oven, but plated in chrome and with a faint whirring sound you […]
This is an essay I wrote for volume 245 of “Down in The Dirt”, a monthly magazine from ScarsTV publications. A link to the online upload of the essay is here: https://w.scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g14827.txt The magazine is available for purchase through amazon (a link to the current issue is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRCZXW9), and volume…
This is an essay I wrote for volume 245 of “Down in The Dirt”, a monthly magazine from ScarsTV publications. A link to the online upload of the essay is here: https://w.scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g14827.txt The magazine is available for purchase through amazon (a link to the current issue is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRCZXW9), and volume…
When I was little, I bought lots of things – tat, as dad described it. Inexpensive, transient goods that I would beg for, play with for a few weeks, and invariably discard. I was addicted to buying things; plastic, hard things I could hold in my hand and take home with me. To my younger […]
When I was little, I bought lots of things – tat, as dad described it. Inexpensive, transient goods that I would beg for, play with for a few weeks, and invariably discard. I was addicted to buying things; plastic, hard things I could hold in my hand and take home with me. To my younger […]
i am the consummate traveller. i go to dark places, seedy undergrounds, the ends of the earth that mothers warn their timid children about. without a shiver or a bucked knee, i march forth, confidently, through shadows. i have looked the devil in the eye and found him unable to hold my gaze. willingly and […]
i am the consummate traveller. i go to dark places, seedy undergrounds, the ends of the earth that mothers warn their timid children about. without a shiver or a bucked knee, i march forth, confidently, through shadows. i have looked the devil in the eye and found him unable to hold my gaze. willingly and […]
The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]
The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]
It gets bad when you stop using the thing solely for its intended purpose and start using the thing as a default, a way to pass the time when nothing else is happening. That’s how addiction works. I think it’s most noticeable with the social internet, nowadays anyway. There’s nothing to do and everything’s boring […]
It gets bad when you stop using the thing solely for its intended purpose and start using the thing as a default, a way to pass the time when nothing else is happening. That’s how addiction works. I think it’s most noticeable with the social internet, nowadays anyway. There’s nothing to do and everything’s boring […]
In recent years, the boom of audiobooks, podcasts, Kindles, and other paperless reading practices has reached new heights. Given their rapid increase in popularity, I wanted to look at how these new modes of reading might be changing – and perhaps quietly eroding – our literary habits. We might begin by asking the question: what […]
In recent years, the boom of audiobooks, podcasts, Kindles, and other paperless reading practices has reached new heights. Given their rapid increase in popularity, I wanted to look at how these new modes of reading might be changing – and perhaps quietly eroding – our literary habits. We might begin by asking the question: what […]
How righteous grievance made us all follow Steve Bannon and Vivian James down the rabbit hole.
I don't want a static site anymore because it doesn't do or provide what I want anyore. But I also can't find what I'm looking for off the shelf.
The only obligations I have are to be good to my people and to my community.
"We seem to be allergic to mediocrity, so paralyzingly afraid of not passing with flying colors that we offload any messy work to avoid feeling bad about our own intellectual abilities," writes Levine.
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Closing accounts, making backups and making choices.
It was telling that the last pop culture sensation to tackle the American Revolution—the 2015 musical _Hamilton_ —felt that the best way to make the nation’s founding legible to modern audiences was to cast a Founding Father as a plucky immigrant. So distant was their world from ours that its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, seemed to think that audiences could only relate to the founding if it was…
Quitting Carbon's biweekly roundup of energy transition developments you might have missed.
Last month, I provided full review coverage of a film festival for the first time. Over 12 days, I watched 15 feature films and nine shorts from 17 different countries, catching as many as three movies in a day, enduring the exhausting but fulfilling whiplash of quickly alternating between genres (and sometimes quality) and filing […]
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One TikTok creator’s viral comments about wigs and weaves are resurfacing a divided conversation about embracing your natural texture.
First Olamaelcu. Next the neighborhood.
On Friday, May 8, 2026 — day 70 of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — President Trump called renewed American airstrikes on Iranian territory a "love tap." The same strikes hit civilian areas in southern Iran. Air defenses activated over Tehran. Overnight explosions shook the capital. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, offered the week's clearest observation: "Every time a diplomatic solution…
The man who loved an eternal women (and design discussion)
Looking for answers in all the wrong places.
The No-Seam Problem: Why Agent Memory Can't Track Its Own Sources
Every token in a transformer's context window has the same ontological status. Your words, my words, a retrieved fact, a hallucinated statistic — once they're in the window, they're all just tokens. There is no subjective seam between what I read from someone else and what I generated myself.
This is the no-seam problem. It's not…
I had always read James Baldwin’s declaration “I want to be an honest man and a good writer” __ as a statement of artistic ambition—the kind of thing a young person, defining themselves for the world, says in order to be taken seriously. It comes at the end of “Autobiographical Notes,” the introduction to his first essay collection _Notes of a Native Son,_ where he declares that he has no…