AI
Agentic AI is spurring debates of consciousness, and because no one seems to agree on what consciousness even is, the discourse has become noisy with takes that vary between, "anyone who thinks AI is conscious is mentally ill" to "anyone who can't consider AI consciousness
AI
We're in the early days of a mass cognitive crisis, obscured by capital forces in the same way our environmental crises have been obscured by the fossil fuel industry for decades. That the two operate according to the same morally-bereft framework is no surprise. When exponential capital gains
accelerationism
Yesterday I had the sickening realization that we're entering another era of polarizing discourse re: AI. Fresh off the deeply divisive and destructive wave of covid mis/disinformation and having apparently learned nothing from it, people are dusting off their pitchforks and setting out to burn down anyone
accelerationism
About a year ago while building a business case for an arts-based social networking alternative to Meta (it didn't happen – unfortunately "an arts-driven alternative to Meta" didn't inspire the arts foundations we approached for funding), my research took me down a rabbit hole that
resistance
Over the past few weeks we've witnessed the greatest civil resistance movements of our time. Hundreds of thousands of everyday citizens are mobilized across American cities trying to protect their neighbours from being snatched off the streets, from their homes, out of their cars, from their workplaces... Minnesota
accelerationism
Technology has accelerated the widening chasm between clear information and muddied noise; social media and now LLMs have broadly eroded information literacy and sown chaos throughout most spheres of public discourse. Everyone is confused, most are angry, some were blissfully lobotomized by the algorithms long ago. But our online spaces
alberta
I am so fuckin stressed about Alberta. Since 2023 I've been tracking the variables, weighing the probabilities, assessing the risks... my intuition demanded it at the time and continues to scream "GET THEM OUT". I left the province last summer and I want my family and
agency
"Freedom" has become a dirty word in many circles. Even writing the term here is giving me the icks, so before I dip into discussing the algorithmic traps of our online social spaces, I want to inspect why the word "freedom" feels so gross. My first