# Joshua Blankenship If you havin’ URL problems I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but a niché ain’t one. Page: Feed: --- ## [Pattern Matching in the Age of Slopbundance](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/pattern-matching-in-the-age-of-slopbundance) _2026-04-17 · Joshua Blankenship_ This is a gross oversimplification for the sake of brevity, but AI models pattern match to the most statistically likely solution, and fill in the gaps with more of the same. ## [Don’t Forget to Add the Awe](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/dont-forget-to-add-the-awe) _2026-04-09 · Joshua Blankenship_ On the hunt for self-maintaining fire in a cosplay world ## [In Praise of Middle-Age](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-middle-age) _2026-04-03 · Joshua Blankenship_ It won’t be long now, I hope it is good ## [Friday Five: Five Unrelated Ideas I’ve Been Mulling Over This Week](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-unrelated-ideas) _2026-03-27 · Joshua Blankenship_ The end goal of a big portion of the AI hype right now is using “agents” to take care of administrative and structural tasks you were previously doing. ## [Marginal Orthogonal Strategies & Rituals](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/marginal-orthogonal-strategies-and) _2026-03-26 · Joshua Blankenship_ (or) How to zig when everyone seems to zag ## [When a Poet Laureate isn’t a Poet](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/when-a-poet-laureate-isnt-a-poet) _2026-03-24 · Joshua Blankenship_ Strange news for South Carolina’s literary arts community ## [Friday Five: Five Unrelated Quotes I Saw on Twitter Lately](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-unrelated-quotes-9f5) _2026-03-13 · Joshua Blankenship_ “We see a future where knowledge and information are made freely available for all through philanthropy and public spaces designed for the civic good.” — Andrew Carnegie, standing in stark contrast to the value-extracting, paywalled garden-building tech billionaires of today ## [Friday Five: Five Things That Made Me Laugh This Week](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-things-that-made) _2026-01-30 · Joshua Blankenship_ Hello, 9 year olds, I’m your English teacher. ## [Wading into the Artificial Waters](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/wading-into-the-artificial-waters) _2026-01-28 · Joshua Blankenship_ (or) How I’m using AI lately ## [Internet Advice is Luck and Survival Bias in a Trenchcoat](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/internet-advice-is-luck-and-survival) _2025-06-13 · Joshua Blankenship_ Chew the meat, spit out the bones ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hVGe8OhC88p3) _2025-06-13 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [Friday Five: Five Unrelated Thoughts This Month](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-unrelated-thoughts) _2025-06-13 · Joshua Blankenship_ I admittedly stole these from my own Twitter feed, but maybe I should consider posting them to Substack Notes instead. ## [Friday Five: Five Unrelated Quotes with Accompanying Collages](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-unrelated-quotes) _2025-05-30 · Joshua Blankenship_ “We need too much too quickly for any handwork to keep up…the craftsman is today outside of the great process of industrial production: the designer belongs to it.” — Anni Albers, 1943 ## [Worldbuilding Brand Identities](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/worldbuilding-brand-identities) _2025-05-29 · Joshua Blankenship_ It’s always the little things ## [In Celebration of Haiku Poetry Day](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/in-celebration-of-haiku-poetry-day) _2025-04-17 · Joshua Blankenship_ A website, another website, a book, and another book ## [Friday Five: Five Quotes I’ve Been Pondering Lately](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-quotes-ive-been) _2025-04-11 · Joshua Blankenship_ Fellow quote collector Austin Kleon said it well, “The artist is a collector. ## [Abundance in a Time of Scarcity](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/abundance-in-a-time-of-scarcity) _2025-04-08 · Joshua Blankenship_ Staying locked in when you’re strapped down ## [Friday Five: Five Portraits I Loved This Week](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-portraits-i-loved) _2025-03-21 · Joshua Blankenship_ Sometimes one person and a camera is still enough ## [Remixing a New Poetic Form](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/remixing-a-new-poetic-form) _2025-03-17 · Joshua Blankenship_ 12-Bar Blues (or) Blues Haikus ## [Imagining the Future](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/imagining-the-future) _2025-03-14 · Joshua Blankenship_ Ekphrastic poetry, visual art, legacy, and science fiction ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/k14s2CgGEFRX) _2025-03-14 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Friday Five: Five Non-Pickup Line Haiku I’ve Written Lately](https://blankenship.substack.com/p/friday-five-five-non-pickup-line) _2025-03-14 · Joshua Blankenship_ Haiku is a short form of poetry originally from Japan.