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Technology & attention
Building the systems, and being honest about what they do to the people inside them.
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- BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Audit Only Checks What It Can Reach
My own site published a number that was false while the correct number sat four lines below it, and the reason generalizes further than software. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
Silicon Valley's Death Problem
Transhumanism is terror management theory funded by venture capital, and it is telling on itself. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Boredom Is a Skill
We engineered boredom out of existence and lost something we cannot get back from a screen. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Your Smart Home Is a Landlord's Dream
Smart apartment tech is marketed as convenience for tenants and works as surveillance for landlords. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Right to Repair Is a Civil Right
You bought it but you don't own it. Repair restrictions aren't a consumer inconvenience; they're a property rights crisis. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
AI Art and the Death of Process
The debate about AI art focuses on output quality. That misses the point entirely. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Open Source Has a Sustainability Problem
The entire internet runs on software maintained by exhausted volunteers. That's not a feature; it's a crisis. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Quantified Self Is a Prison
We turned our bodies into dashboards and our lives into optimization problems. The numbers aren't setting us free. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Attention Is Not a Resource
The 'attention economy' metaphor gets it wrong, and the error isn't academic. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Why We Stopped Repairing Things
Your grandparents repaired everything. You throw everything away. This isn't a generational virtue difference. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Monero in 2026: Technical Advances Meet Regulatory Headwinds
Monero's cryptography keeps getting stronger while exchanges keep delisting it. Where that leaves an investor in 2026. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Platform Feudalism
You don't own your digital life; you rent it from lords who can evict you at will, and that's a description of digital property relations rather than a metaphor. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
The Myth of the Neutral Tool
Technology embeds politics, and the design is the argument. No tool is a mere instrument; every one shapes what's possible and what's thinkable. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Self-Hosting Is Political
Running your own infrastructure is a small assertion of autonomy against platforms built to make autonomy impossible. - 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. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Code Walkthrough: React, CSS animations, and state management
A few working examples for React components, CSS animations, and state, written to be copied and broken. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
How I Built This Site: A Technical Deep Dive
The architecture and decisions behind lscaturchio.xyz, from Next.js 16 to RAG-powered search. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
Nick Land: The Philosopher Who Became Explicitly Racist
Nick Land went from calling for feminist guerrilla war to advocating 'hyper-racism,' and the innovations of his early work don't excuse what he became. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
When Machines Learned to See: A Century of Art and Technology in Conflict
From the camera obscura controversy to AI lawsuits in 2025, each wave of technological disruption has forced artists to confront what is irreplaceably human about creative expression. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
Building RAG Systems in Production
Simple RAG fails in production. Notes on what actually fixed it: hybrid retrieval, reranking, contextual chunking, and measuring before adding anything. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
Digital Minimalism Beyond the Hype
What the peer-reviewed evidence on intentional technology use actually supports, what it oversimplifies, and where it's still uncertain. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Software is Magic: Understanding Consciousness Through Computational Patterns
What it means to say your mind is software running on biological hardware, and why animists may have been pointing at something real. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Privacy in the Age of AI
Better AI usually wants more of your data, but the tradeoff isn't as fixed as it looks. What you can actually do about it, as a user and as a builder.