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A blend of tech experiments, ethical inquiry, and personal storytelling to decode the systems shaping our digital lives. Strange metaphors, useful tools, and the question: What does staying human look like now?

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Steve Was in Portugal, So the AI Bought 500 Laptops

What happens when a corporation tries to fit authority inside a token.

I Built a World Cup Experiment to Keep Receipts on My Predictions (And you should try it too!)

Picking winners is the easy part. The Calibration Cup is a public test of whether the confidence behind each pick was worth anything.

I built an interactive map of global AI policy

An experiment to figure out which AI laws actually matter before they matter, with help from two AI agents and a healthy distrust of their output.

The Deepfake Fire Drill Every Family Needs (And Why Your Family Posts Are Now Training Data)

What every household needs to know about voice cloning, deepfake scams, and the plan that works.

I Built a 7-Agent AI Pipeline to Fact-Check a Moon Landing Conspiracy. Here’s What Happened Next.

On "What is truth, really?"

Red, Red, They Call Me Red

Why the color everyone uses to explain consciousness explains nothing at all and why AI will eventually need to “feel” to get to the next level

The Real Future of AI Is Governance

Smarter models are only half the story. The rest is permissions, accountability, and trust.

Free Will in The Age of AI

Artificial intelligence hasn’t solved the problem of free will.

Can AI Trip on Mushrooms?

Why robots can fake trippy outputs, what it would take for them to actually feel it, and what that says about us

When the Whole Becomes One

Integrated Information Theory: why unity matters for minds (and machines)