Seditious Thoughts

A pause. A thought. A refusal.

YouTube Studio Inspiration tab interface showing an algorithm-generated title 'Fanon in Stardew Valley?!' with a grotesquely oversized red arrow pointing at a smiling, oblivious Junimo sprite. The thumbnail breaks the fourth wall, caricaturing the very mechanism the essay critiques.

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.

The view on the hill on Burgh Island: a vast, still sea under divine light and hut

Marginalia #2: "Burgh Island" - Ben Howard, Esmerelda, and the Tide of Self

The second Marginalia entry. My personal reflection on Ben Howard, Burgh Island, authenticity, and the space between who we are and who we have to be.

The 'Born to, Forced to' meme template - a split image showing what humans were born to do versus what the system forces them to do.

Why Can't AI Do My Laundry?

The ‘Born to, Forced to’ meme, Oscar Wilde’s socialist dreams, and Joanna Maciejewska’s viral quote converge on the same bitter truth: capital automated the wrong things. AI writes sonnets while we clock in. Why did the machine liberation never arrive?

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