the website of a disconcerting young man who is in and on your computer...
the original reason i got into STS was because i was pretty obsessed with the transhumanist community. the philosophy of transhumanism itself - that it is morally right to use technology to alter and improve the human experience - is internet rabbit hole material, for sure. but the communities that coalesce around it are a whole other fascination. in nov '22 - a couple of months into my social…
Joy Buolamwini (of AJL fame) dropped some fantastic words of wisdom in her latest newsletter 'proximity to magnificent power', wherein she reflects on speaking to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the publication of his AI encyclical. she asks, What invitations might you extend to others? Whose name can you bring into the halls of power? Whose work can you carry into rooms they may never enter? at a time…
i've had a couple of agency jobs since leaving university, but never really felt like i knew what i was doing. i always felt i got super lucky with the jobs i landed, and was in danger of fucking things up at all times. friends tried to tell me it was a classic case of imposter syndrome; to that i would say, you're not my coworker!! you don't know that!! maybe it was or maybe it wasn't - the point…
hello! i've been thinking / talking about starting a blog for the past several years, but all previous attempts resulted in feelings of embarrassment, shame, and subsequently their almost immediate deletion. which is a shame really, because 2026-aphie would love to have a (digital) paper trail of what exactly i've been thinking about since finishing university, and how i got here. i settled for…