Seditious Thoughts
A pause. A thought. A refusal.
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.
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.