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Reflecting on a locked-in syndrome interview I gave 2 years ago & never wrote about, after having another patient trapped in his body. Written from a studio apt in San Jose, CA summer 2026 .

since apparently i can still study for SHELF exams in just nearly 1 night (jazakullah allah), i'm going to push myself to Create more again

Surveillance of Health

Night before an exam once again

call for creative/historical project ideas (for 1 year of Living in the Bay in 2026)

helllllooo world ^^

narrativevlogging 01

journal entry of october 25 2025:

AI Facial Imagery and the Fusiform Gyrus (part 1)

Several years ago, I wrote a piece standing underground in Boston, at my familiar T station, thinking on advertisements, the plastering of faces on walls, and where our cognition began in villages and small communities.

intelligence is distributed; cybernetic-based argument for divergent-AI-structuring

Cybernetics defines intelligence not by form but by function.

a two-door exploration experiment

to search for agentic misalignment (anthropic term)

Paul Kammerer (1910) v. Michael Levin (2010)

paul kammerer: Austrian biologist, end of WWI.

a post i made today on a rxn to agentic ai anthropic study

better to speak and be vague than not engage

a thought tn.