Writing

"You are going to be so beautiful tomorrow!"

"I know, Mom." Kelly had heard this a million times before.

"I'm just so proud of you!"

"It's just another day."

"Oh, you'll understand someday." Kelly's mom reached over and slowly poured some honey into Kelly's teacup.

Kelly sighed, already…

This Reddit post, The Unfortunate truth: There is no "people" to rebel, got me thinking about the "we" and how it works. The We is a point of elocution; it is a subject-position from which one addresses others.

Anyone who tries to speak for others is playing a dangerous game, because we risk erasing or…

I posit business, meaning good business, as an undertheorized third thing between capitalism (the King) and refusal (the Priest or Hierophant). Like the Deleuzoguattarian war machine, business—true business—finds itself a contested power alternately appropriated by capitalism and enemies of the state. Traditional communisms are refusal-oriented, and do not…

The question isn't: Did the DoD have AI before everyone else—the real question is: How long did they have AI before everyone else?

I find it hard to believe—almost incredible—that the DoD didn't have LLMs before everyone else. The DoD basically prints money, and they have their hands…

Doing Nothing on Purpose: Rigorous Magic and the Recovery of Meaning in POSIX sh

The v1.0 PDF of my Semanthesis essay, on using the POSIX null command as a rigorous place for meaning, intention, and magical language inside shell scripts without altering behavior.