Brain Rot as Culture-Bound Illness

on digital disorders, ancient pathologies, and post-ironic posting

Mar 10 • 

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January 2025

Platforms Rule Everything Around Me

how tech platforms remade the world

Jan 12 • 

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December 2024

My Brilliant Lonesome Runaway Year

On travel, art, and the state of my heart in 2024

Dec 31, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Digital Agents: The Future of News Consumption

This piece was written as a contribution to the Open Society Foundations’ AI in Journalism Futures Project. It speculates on how people will consume…

May 2, 2024 • 

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April 2024

How large language models work

AI chatbots are improving at pace

Apr 29, 2024 • 

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November 2023

Three Poems from October

Furthering efforts to kill the part that cringes

Nov 1, 2023 • 

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September 2023

I can still write

if anyone was wondering

Sep 17, 2023 • 

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July 2022

Everyone Is An Imposter

(it really takes the pressure off)

Jul 12, 2022 • 

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May 2022

Istanbul By The Horns

Notes on a brief trip

May 22, 2022 • 

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Upgrading Imagination: The Promise Of DALL-E 2 As A Tool For Thought

Nascent thoughts on nascent tech

May 6, 2022 • 

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February 2022

January 2022

My Favourite Books, Movies, and Games of 2021

So much to love!

Jan 2, 2022 • 

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