Tag: essay
Sharding my Online Identity
It helps to have a slim place for folks to find information about oneself.
GenAI as Three Flawed Analogies
An essay on forklifts, machine guns, and farm animals.
The ease of protest against generative AI is a problem
When the target of protest is virtual, the reward for saying no feels virtually larger as well.
Being kicked out of the tech industry
After 250 job applications in four months, I'm giving up.
(WOZ) Essay: Von der Verantwortung für den Schutz queerer Leben
6. August 2026 Am 25. Juli tötete ein islamistischer Attentäter am Berliner CSD eine Frau und verletzte 31 weitere Menschen. Die rechten Reaktionen waren erwartbar - aber in der Linken wäre es Zeit für eine produktivere Aufarbeitung. Direktlink Hier den Artikel weiter lesen...
The strange, fully functioning phasing of Ratchet and Clank 1
On the Notion of Shutting the Fuck up
I think I need to reassess some things.
WILLOW SPRINGS REIMAGINED
Willow Springs International Motorsports Park is the oldest permanent road course in the United States, consisting of seven circuits nestled into the base of an otherwise unimpressive foothill in Rosamond, California. It is a state historical landmark, a filming site seen in Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans '66), Top Gear, and Jay Leno's Garage, and a perennial pain-in-the-ass for sim racers playing iRacing and Gran Turismo. Though not currently a professional-grade track, Willow Springs International Raceway—the longest and primary circuit, affectionately known as Big Willow—has hosted renowned drivers such as Nigel Mansell, Michael Andretti, Jimmie Johnson, and Dario Franchitti.
Leaning into agentic coding: (almost) a year in (short) review
My approach in generative AI coding solutions, how I've integrated into my workflow and where I avoid using it.
'There's More Black People Over There': False Equivalences in Platform Distribution and Gimmicks of Platform Capitalism
Of course there's more Black people on a platform that holds a billion people and has been around for twenty years. Expecting the same experience across different platforms with different profit (and sustainable) incentives is naive, disrespectful and dangerous.
Putting this blog on ATProto with standard.site
Mirroring a static Hugo blog onto ATProto with standard.site and Sequoia, plus the GitHub Actions wiring that republishes the records on every push without any manual steps.
All Politics is Gamergate
How righteous grievance made us all follow Steve Bannon and Vivian James down the rabbit hole.
I'm Sisyphus and my website is my (worry)stone
I don't want a static site anymore because it doesn't do or provide what I want anyore. But I also can't find what I'm looking for off the shelf.
Being nice for free is a bad idea
The only obligations I have are to be good to my people and to my community.
Nice Politics vs. Asshole Politics
The rise of the Age of Assholes doesn’t mean we should give up on niceness.
A realignment of things
Closing accounts, making backups and making choices.
If you won't carry the pager, maybe don't push to mainline
Drive-by AI changes break the shared model a team builds around its code, and the ICs end up cleaning up the mess. Why pushing to mainline should come with the pager.
Where I'm going with the work I'm leaning into now
First Olamaelcu. Next the neighborhood.
Overcoming anxiety.
The No-Seam Problem: Why Agent Memory Can't Track Its Own Sources
Every token in a transformer's context window has the same ontological status. Your words, my words, a retrieved fact, a hallucinated statistic — once they're in the window, they're all just tokens. There is no subjective seam between what I read from someone else and what I generated myself.
Analogue Gaming: Cards & Dice as Game Consoles
An essay about the "analogue" movement and its lack of analogue gaming.
The Machine Still Clatters
Institutional Rot, the Personalist State, and the Long Decay of the American Republic
Käsebrot ist ein gutes Brot
Nach dem Sandwich, das ich hier gezeigt habe, dachte ich eigentlich, dass auch mal eine Variante mit Käse ganz nett wäre.Aber dabei gibt es einen Haken, ich komme nicht über das "normale" Käsebrot hinaus. Naja und wie schon Helge Schneider sang "Käsebrot ist ein gutes Brot", es steht einfach für sich. Allenfalls ein paar Scheiben...
Each Word Arrives
I don't have thoughts and then find words for them.
To Continue with Hope
Writing about the state of the world as a cusp Millennial/Gen Z that grew up in the optimistic Obama era, contrasting that with what today holds for us.
We Crave Open Culture
Essay about the importance of free participation in culture.
An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI
As a Black software engineer and leftist in the United States, I contend with the notion that generative artifical intelligence can be used in a materialistic way that moves the needle forward for progress without intrenching the power of capitalists and business folks who are adamant on exacerbating existing calamities within the technology sector.
Adherence to societal norms as a form of acceptable self harm
Destacked: Why I Avoid Substack As Much as Possible
From Substack LLC's attempt to capture the concept of a newsletter as a verb to their overt encouragement and support for Neo-Nazi content, don't expect me to post anything on that platform. I explain why.
Black August
We return to the time of memorialization in those we've lost to the prison industrial complex and work on personal growth to become more useful to the abolitionist movement.
Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?
Bluesky and Mastodon have drastically different perception on Age Verification Laws: either just as the Big Tech platforms, or so different to be out of scope for the laws.
Welcome to Connected Places
Fediverse Report has relaunched as Connected Places!
Clocking My Autochattering in Relation to it All
Decentralisation as a mental framework
In the Fediverse and Bluesky decentralisation is a very relevant shared mental framework. Communities take on a shared mental framework to understand a technology. This essay shares some thoughts on this shared framework
What's Supposed to be Different about Livtet?
It's been about half a year since I've "started" working on Livtet and I couldn't tell you what I'm doing with it.
The Assumed Wealth Of the Social Web Participants
The more I read on the ideas of the social Web, the more I'm beginning to see it as a tool of codification instead of democratization.
Focusing on Livtet Yet Again
Finding myself in need of a way to manage my book collection and my reference material, I've decided to revisit my ambitions with Livtet.
Nation Sovereignity Only Matters When it's a Colonial One
Nah, Y'all Got It
Collective ignorance around the nature of American fascism — a multi-century tradition of domestic and foreign policy — will keep it as the cobblestone of operations in the nation.
Left, Right and Center: A Reference
Mozilla Needs to Fall Apart to Make Space for Others
Mozilla had its time. Its executives have decided that it's best to cosplay as a small department with Google's ecosystem instead of doubling down on what its alleged mission was about. Let it fall.