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