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Originally published on my Substack: Insects Matter Not more than people Animal welfare is an issue which cuts across traditional political divisions: it has advocates and opponents on the far right, far left and everywhere in between.

Originally published on my Substack: No one thinks that LLMs are sentient So why are we treating them that way?

Originally published on my Substack: Can you argue your way into believing in God?

Audience capture is a phenomenon common on social media where, over time, a creator loses their authentic voice and instead tailors their content to the desires of their audience as represented by engagement statistics.

As I am beginning the end of my professional sabbatical, I am increasingly dedicating my time to useless pursuits, specifically thinking about Magic: The Gathering.

AI text is clogging our minds, and clogging the internet's series of tubes.

I have played Magic: The Gathering for over twenty years.

I am, much to my chagrin, on Twitter.

I wrote an essay for Kernel Magazine, Issue 6 about shrimp welfare Read it at Reboot

I quit my job in January, and have been on a professional sabbatical since then.

There is a scourge of AI-designed signs taking over America, especially small businesses and organizations.

The Amazing Digital Circus is a YouTube animated series that started in late 2023.

I wrote an essay for The Empty Cup about longplays Read it at The Empty Cup

What can we learn from a defunct twenty year old Avatar: the Last Airbender fan forum?

I started a professional sabbatical in January.

Ryan Peterman is a YouTube interviewer who speaks with senior employees at big tech companies.

If you don't regularly take public transit, you may not have the daily experience of bounded slices of time where you have nothing to do but sit and briefly wait.

I started a professional sabbatical in January.

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I have experimented enough with AI coding agents that I have come to pick up on their design style, and I've been noticing it on the internet more and more.

Update (Feb 17, 2026)—I no longer agree with many statements made in this blog post.

After my last blog post, "Software engineers are not politicians," Sean responded on his blog, "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical."

432 Park Avenue If you live in or have been to New York City, you may recognize 432 Park Avenue.

I watch a lot of YouTube videos.

I've long been fascinated by the game Diplomacy.

I recently watched the video "I tried doing nothing on an 18 hour flight," in which YouTube creator @BWong challenges himself to spend back-to-back flights doing absolutely nothing: not even talking to his parents beside him or sleeping.

The simulation argument, formulated by Nick Bostrom, goes as follows: imagine that that a civilization is capable of creating a computer simulation complex enough that it can simulate consciousness.

It's not always clear why I moved to and from New York.

Worry (2024) by Alexandra Tanner reviewed In college, my friend recorded an unreleased podcast episode where I discussed my approach to writing fiction.

The World Is On Fire But We're Still Buying Shoes by Alex Leach reviewed I picked up Alex Leach's The World Is On Fire But We're Still Buying Shoes at a North Brooklyn bookstore and, between a cafe, park, and bar, read it all in one day.

"After Work" and "The Unsettling of America" reviewed After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek is an exploration of domestic and reproductive labor: the work that we do outside of our place of employme…

I enjoy drinking.

Low Tech Magazine describes itself as "an online platform refusing to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution [...] underscor[ing] the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices."

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019) by Ronald Purser Mindfulness, as characterized by Ronald Purser, himself a Buddhist practitioner, has a strange relationship with the Buddhist spiritual practices from which it d…

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The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world, a monumental testament to human engineering and a national symbol of China.