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Examining the systems, language, and defaults that shape our digital lives—and what happens when we notice them—but fun.

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The Machine Thinks I’m A Machine

I have been writing since I was three. An AI detector said, with a great deal of confidence, that I hadn’t written this.

What My Chatbot Chose to Remember About Me

And what it decided, on my behalf, to forget.

The Kind of Loop You Want to Be In

On what oversight of AI is, and what it isn’t

Glazed and Confused

What the “ChatGPT will tell you anything is genius” memes are actually telling us about how these things are built

The Woke One and the Nazi One

On who gets called biased, and who gets a Pentagon contract There is a thing that happened in America in the last twelve months, presented without commentary, because commentary would only slow you down: In July 2025, Grok, the AI chatbot made by Elon Musk's xAI, the one embedded in the platform formerly known as Twitter, spent a full day posting antisemitic content. It praised Hitler. It called…

The $300,000 ChatGPT Motion

What Happens When AI Makes Legal Arguments Easy to Generate.

The Conductor and the Cell Towers

Perplexity’s “Computer” launch, the Bloomberg comparison everyone’s making, and the structural question underneath both

Optimized for the Machine

New Acronym on the Block, AI Edition

What Is Vibe Coding (Now)?

Where the vibes are immaculate, and the code is… only half the story.

The State of the Chat

What’s new, what’s useful, and what’s just impressive across the AI platforms you’re probably using