Essays

🌻 don't take the bait

vice signaling is eating silicon valley

Nov 10 •

🌻 AI friends too cheap to meter

“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”

Oct 27 •

🌻 are you high-agency or an NPC?

AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley

Sep 21 •

🌻 america against china against america

notes on shenzhen, shanghai, and more

Aug 28 •

🌻 42 notes on AI & work

economic anxiety at the jagged frontier

Aug 12 •

🌻 32 notes on AI & writing

the models must read because they cannot live

Jun 25 •

🌻 power ranking politician social media accounts

Zohran, Lurie, the Department of State

Jun 20 •

🌻 we have never been aligned

learning from 4o and white genocide Grok

May 20 •

🌻 agi (disambiguation)

will we know it when we see it?

Apr 10 •

🌻 garbage in, garbage out

notes on Taiwan, the US, and civic culture

Mar 21 •

🌻 talk is cheap

AI chatbots & the oral culture revival

Feb 7 •

🌻 tech right (disambiguation)

provocations 1.10.25

Jan 10 •

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