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My life, at least inasmuch as I've tried to live it this way, has been an exercise in acting "as if."

Both me and a lot of people around me have written extensively about the issues that we face in the tech industry, both inward and outward facing.

In this light, AI-generated "fiction" is already broken from the get-go.

A story set in Liam Kofi Bright's Sanguinary Utnapishtim setting

It seems, therefore, that a lot of broadly socially liberal centrist people believe that having a bunch of trans people in the Omelas hole is necessary for society to work.

As with an awful lot of literature meant to be consumed by a primarily elite audience (in this case, the executive class), both Simon and Lencioni write as though the work done by their audience is the important work that clearly needs to be focused on the

At this point, refusing to use AI, and especially LLM tools is an act of resistance.

As of this morning, my website is no longer hosted on Vercel, instead sitting on a Hetzner VM in Helsinki.

The ghoul in Arabic folklore is a spirit or demon heavily associated with graveyards, death and the consumption of human flesh.

Between the sheer ubiquity of the practices and the effort put into suppressing cognitive dissonance described above, people functioning in these environments wind up believing that this is simply how business is: the deeply coercive, consent-violating and

Fortunately, while the year ahead is likely to be hard and horrific in a general sense, I have good reason to hope that it will bring more agency and capacity to act for me personally.

Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth.

But how can I say what needs to be said?

I am fundamentally done with defending my right to exist and thrive to people who speak and argue in bad faith.

To that end, I've written this article, which contains things you can do to protect trans people in a hostile environment.

As much as this regime is a fascist one, it's *also* an extension of modern corporate management to the state: all fascist regimes are. 1930s Germany was, in many ways, a reflection of 1930s corporate culture, and an awful lot has been written about how c…

An article discussing how the US election has impacted trans people internationally

My first set of post-election reflections

My notes from reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

A meditation of the extent of carelessness in our world and our lives

About the tendency to hubris in every start-up founder

On the inevitability of humans screwing up, and what we can do about that

About women-in-tech, and how that category differs from women who do technical things

Iris intervenes in the Matt Mullenweg WordPress discussion using very polite language

A somewhat long and rambling post about our consistent compulsion to say and believe bullshit

A brief dive into the vulnerabilities of thought that bullshit exploits

Wherein I delve a bit more into the details of epistemic injustice

Wherein Iris elucidates the similarities between fascist regimes and the modern workplace

Wherein Iris does some Fermi calculations about just how much carbon Snowflake is pumping into the atmosphere

Wherein Iris writes about how isolated competent professionals end up in their roles

Wherein Iris has a breakdown and republishes a blog post she wrote last year

Wherein Iris documents an interview process that actually does things pretty well

Wherein we discuss the remarkable similarities between modern DEI practice and the doctrine of original sin

On why workplace cultures that exclude trans people are shitty ones