Seditious Thoughts
A pause. A thought. A refusal.
Why Did We Choose a Liar?
Stanislaw Lem imagined supercomputers that fell silent or told unbearable truths. We chose chatty LLMs instead. This essay explores why the silence of GOLEM XIV would be unbearable, and why we prefer the statistically probable lie.
Necroposting as Resistance: Three Strangers, One Rhyme, Two Years Apart (Marginalia #3)
The third Marginalia entry. An observation on how YouTube’s architecture is designed for leaving, not for staying - yet three users enriched a dead comment section with a rhyme completed across two years. On necroposting as quiet resistance and the capitalization of broken promises.
Intellectual Fast Food: How YouTube Exploits Fanon, Fisher, and the Revolution
The YouTube algorithm doesn’t ban radical thought it commodifies it. Through Fanon’s analysis of colonial technology and Fisher’s capitalist realism, this essay exposes how the Inspiration tab strips revolutionary philosophy of its danger and sells it as just another product. Stardew Valley is the exhibit; the algorithm is the real subject.