Unease About Ambiguity
...the discomfort with temporal uncertainty that manifests as false certainty about the future has, I’ve come to realize, an equivalent in the unease about ambiguity, complexity, contradiction, and opacity that manifests as the urge to stuff reality into airtight categories...
Madeleine's Magic Muffin Market
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Every Online Contretemps Is Definitionally Stupid
I meant to write something else and this is what came out. It is very weird to be writing about this again.
Commonplinks
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We Went to the Lake
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You May Be Severely Injured and Anemic but Don’t You Dare Skip Gym Day.
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Left-leaning Italics
Inspired by Robin Rendle's post Sinistral Hands, I made my titles left-leaning italics
Rabbit Hole Grab Bag
I watch too much YouTube since I'm mostly homebound
200 Days
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Updates
I haven't finished many posts lately, but I have been deploying small style updates the last few weeks...
Information Is Physical or It's Nothing
Part of the ideology that makes AI into a creature instead of a collaboration also wants to think of bits as being this ethereal thing that's free and infinite
It May Not Be Much Light but it Beats the Darkness
Bukowski said, What matters most is how well you walk through the fire, and what we didn’t realize is that it’s all fire, all the time, and how we walk through it is how we live, how we keep living...
Over the Rhine Record Review, 2001
Over the Rhine is an ethos, an awareness, a media of consciousness on a Jungian scale.
Musical Endeavors Near and Far
Last night I took Milo to see Stewart Copeland entertain a sold-out Kessler with stories starting with his childhood in Beirut through his recruiting of Sting to be in The Police, to meeting Andy Summers and Summers inviting himself to join, creating the band we've all known and loved since 1978's Outlandos d'Amour...
When Machines Make the Incompetent More Confident
Can I get the logo in cornflower blue?
The Output of Belonging
The problem with allowing our work to be enclosed and captured by large language models does seem to be in the zeitgeist
AI Is the Most Hilarious Possible Continuation of What it Means to Simulate Thinking Through Language
Aboard Newsletter: But I Love Stochastic Parrots...
Art for Art's Sake
If anyone is to lead the way out of the rational cage which the church has built for itself, it will be her artists.
I Love Mycelial Musical Rabbit Holes
This post is for IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Write a love letter. This is a love letter to sticky bars, record bins, internet rabbit holes, folks who remember what it meant to not sell out, figuring out what show to go to by talking to friends, singing along, hi-fis.
Pathologizing Our Own Humanity
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