Seditious Thoughts
A pause. A thought. A refusal.
Nobody Cares About Your Effort (Marginalia #5)
The fifth Marginalia entry. A creator’s complaint — 600 videos, $7,000, two core issues identified — meets the coldest consensus in the comments: nobody cares about your effort, only the numbers matter. On an algorithm that never registers sacrifice, a viewer who never pays for the work, and the embarrassed ‘I’ that still insists on being seen.
Two Right Hands: AI Slop and the Hand That Stirs It
An essay on AI slop as lukewarm, fingerprintless soup: a corporate deck figure with two right hands, the four-second animation eaten for a year of someone’s life, and Borges’s Pierre Menard as the counterpoint - a man who had to rewrite Don Quixote word for word to prove that the words were never the work.
Ico: No Relationship Meter, Just a Hand to Hold (Marginalia #4)
The fourth Marginalia entry. A meditation on how Ico - no HUD, no inventory, no minimap - makes a held R1 button and a vibrating DualShock the only language of intimacy, and turns saving into sitting together on a stone bench.