The internet did not die; it was embalmed alive, taught to imitate its own pulse, and released back into the world as an infinite machine for converting human meaning into synthetic residue.
infinite machine: junkyard automation
The internet did not die; it was embalmed alive, taught to imitate its own pulse, and released back into the world as an infinite machine for converting human meaning into synthetic residue.
Climate breakdown, war, energy insecurity, public health strain, technocratic overreach, automated exclusion, administrative drift, and the industrial circulation of disinformation are usually treated as separate crises, each assigned its own expert language, governance model, technical platform, and emergency response. But the deeper pattern is structural. Large systems do not merely solve problems. They determine which […]
Let’s save AI, and ourselves, from the people currently running it as though technical intelligence were sufficient to govern human life. The problem is not simply that they are foolish in some ordinary sense, but that they mistake optimisation, scale, fluency, abstraction, and wealth for wisdom. Technical intelligence does not transduce lived experience with anything […]
Employment in an algorithmic era is no longer organised primarily around the value of work, nor even around the value of a worker, but around the value of a legible, searchable, and continuously reprocessable jobseeker. The centre of gravity has shifted. What matters most is not stable placement but sustained circulation through platforms, filters, rankings, […]
The rise of large language models has revived old questions about intelligence, utility, and personhood, but under altered conditions. From early ideas like the Turing test onward, personhood has been framed less as inner depth than as sufficient performance. What feels newly consequential is that systems designed to model, explain, and assist human experience increasingly […]
We use technologies that also use us. Over time, methods are formalised into metrics, metrics are stabilised into categories of meaning, and tools designed to assist begin to define which actions are recognised as valid. What once supported activity becomes background infrastructure. The tools move to the centre. Human experience no longer anchors them; it […]
Meaning does not exist in words, ideas, or intentions taken in isolation. It arises from a relational system in which elements acquire significance only through their differences from one another over time. Words are defined by other words; references defer to further references; interpretation always lags expression. That lag is not an accident or a […]
Consider artificial intelligence and capitalism together, not as separate forces but as mutually reinforcing dynamics, where automation becomes the primary mechanism for enforcing scale-dependent profitability. Technologically mediated commercial systems were always likely to converge on something like this. AI is not an aberration. It is a natural extension of a system that prioritises speed, scale, […]
It is a dying practise. Even as automation bludgeons narrative salience and nuance into the cognitively and culturally low-functioning relational slurry that it has now become, our thought patterns and socioeconomic reflexes adapt and align along with it. Try writing without AI. Feel the difference. That is natural intelligence. That is life.
Artificial intelligence will destroy us all only, or at least primarily, to the degree that human greed uses it as an amplifier. The destruction isn’t coming—it’s already underway.
Because mathematics is infinite, the field of cybersecurity can never be truly closed. The space of vulnerabilities is unbounded, each patch or solution only ever an approximation against the open horizon of possible attacks. Risk is permanent, not as a flaw but as a structural consequence: a system that protects itself must also endlessly expose […]
Each extra node, option, or shortcut in a socio-technical communication system expands the state space—it introduces another degree of freedom. Entropy here is not just noise or disorder but the measure of multiplicity: more ways for things to happen, more ways for things to go wrong. Technology, in its hunger for novelty and feature-set expansion, […]