Jul 23
Afternotes 03: Big Model Smell
Can you develop a nose for AI models?
1 min read
Technology
The long shadow of technology cast on how we live.
Jul 14
Pushing the Envelope
Apple's Star City probes the darker side of the space race
4 min read
Jul 08
Controlling the Clock
Almost 70 years later, The Trouble with Lichen is right on time.
4 min read
Jun 28
Afternotes 02: Hands on the Wheel
Is AI making us lazy, and is it making at all?
Jun 12
The Formula Won
A speculative artifact about data and football, read back thirteen years later.
6 min read
Jun 08
Civilization Holds the Bag
Sold to the people betting against it.
2 min read
May 07
The Ratchet
Part 5: Why risk-maxxing doesn't reverse.
2 min read
Jul 04
The Era of Risk-Maxxing
Part 1: Power chooses chaos over caution in unstable times
8 min read
Apr 26
Apes on a Treadmill
Nuclear War scenarios and the automation of destruction
4 min read
Jul 24
Archive: Citizenship in the Era of Nation-as-a-Service
The shock of Brexit may finally disrupt borders and belonging.
5 min read
Mar 24
Archive: Views of a Dark World
We are too reliant on black swans to illuminate the unseen infrastructure on which we depend.
5 min read