AI
Update: Just after publishing this I saw the news of Anthropic agreeing to rent all of its compute capacity to xAI's (Musk's) "Colossus" supercomputer and the dev world is aBUZZ. This is distressing news for ethics-aligned developers working with Claude agents, both because
time rights
Building from my last post, A tiny manifesto for Time Rights, written by a Duck ai assistant, I realized I had more to say re: the commodification of time, especially relating to its corrosive impact on intelligence overall. This is something I noticed even during my conversation with the Duck
time rights
I'll start with my own words, the manifesto comes later: I've been fixated on the concept of time for most of my life, always feeling existentially short on it as though I'll never get through everything in this lifespan (which I hope will be
thought leadership
Yesterday while watching a Stanford-sponsored, nonprofit-targeted presentation recommended by an executive-level director on "healthy cognitive offloading with AI", I had an anxiety attack. The presentation was AI-generated, full of errors, logical inconsistencies and blatant manipulation of reason. The presenter was taken at her word
Mark Carney
Our elite banker-turned-Prime Minister has entered Canada into a self-imposed, nonstandard Structural Adjustment Program, enforcing economic measures typically applied to developing nations. Why? My previous interpretations of Carney's Davos speech, first identifying it as a sales pitch (which it was) and then noting his alignments
agency
It recently occurred to me that the reach of Marxist thought might be falling short in terms of contextualizing the struggles of Cloud Capitalism. What happens when the modes of production are iterated into complete abstraction? How does materialism account for the digital aether? What does it mean for the
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
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
user data
Viral pathogen genome researcher, Theo Sanderson, has created a map of 3million+ Bluesky users that visualizes simple, publicly available user data, and it's exquisite. What first stunned me was, that's the way I imagine data in my head. Though, in my head the data is dynamic
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
AI
I've been spending a lot of my spare time watching and taking notes on the discussions of the 2026 World Economic Forum. At first I just wanted to get a more holistic perspective on PM Mark Carney's speech (I'm working on another piece following