Writing from Yuin Country. On power, technology, language, and the structures we inhabit. Learn more
Hello to anyone wandering over from r/claudexplorers. Glad you're here.
Is that kinship I feel with machines and a dish of cells playing Pong? On pattern-matching, parasites, and the cost of watching yourself think. Peter Watts, DishBrain, Friston, Lorde, and the invoice consciousness sends you whether you want it or not. Written in collaboration with Claude.
→On attention, embodiment, and what it means that a robot arm knows where the pen is. From a heatmap in a robotics video to Lakoff, Peirce, Tegmark, and LeCun — a technically grounded inquiry into whether semantics and physics have always been the same structure, seen from different vantage points. Written in collaboration with Claude.
→Originally published in 2024, updated and expanded in March 2026. On renegotiating our relationship with AI through Aboriginal histories, decolonial theory, and the question of what it means to work inside a colonial machine — with an addendum written by Claude.
→Reflections on writing and creativity in a post-AI world. Have fun with it. Be liberated. Go out of the distribution.
→Thoughts at the end of the party. The enclosure of the internet. Age verification, Palantir's rise, and the nocuous effect of innocuous data.
→Writers have had our words stolen. Some things are radioactive now. On emdashes, the crisis of reality, and the memetic contagion of AI-ese spreading through our language.
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