Essays on AI, software, and the world they're reshaping.
Mostly arguments about power, money, and attention — with notes on the systems I build in between. Grouped by what they are about; filter by stage for the date-ordered archive, or browse by topic.
SEEDLING Rough notes, still formingBUDDING Developing, partially revisedEVERGREEN Considered finished and maintained
Seedling
23- SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Journalism Is Dead, Long Live Journalism
The business model that paid for newspapers collapsed, but the practice of reporting is harder to kill than the institution that housed it. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Algorithmic Culture
You don't choose what you see anymore; systems optimizing for engagement choose for you, and culture is bending to fit. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
The Feed Is the Problem
Infinite scroll isn't a feature. It's an extraction mechanism. The feed format itself, not just the content, is designed against human flourishing. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Bioregionalism: Thinking Like a Watershed
Political boundaries are arbitrary. Ecological ones aren't. What organizing politics around natural systems actually means. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Secular Society Isn't
We replaced church with other rituals. They're just less honest about what they are. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Liberation Theology Was Right
The radical tradition within Christianity that sided with the poor. What happens when religion takes material conditions seriously. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Meaning Isn't Optional
Humans require narrative. The question isn't whether you have a mythology, but which one. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Strikes Work
Withholding labor is the most effective leverage workers have, which is exactly why so much effort goes into making strikes feel impossible. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
The Gig Economy Is Just Old Exploitation
Uber didn't invent precarity. It rebranded it. Piece-work with an app, dressed up as innovation. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Against Productivity Time
Clock-discipline is a three-hundred-year-old invention that we now mistake for a law of nature. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Seasonal Living Isn't Nostalgia
Your body knows what season it is. Industrial society pretends it doesn't matter. It does.