21 posts with this tag.
A few minutes before I begin writing this, I woke up into an anxiety attack. There are a lot of issues I could be writing about, the world is fraught with uncertain violence. This is a story about me, and also a story about North Darfur and Kansas and Haiti and India. I ask this: whose suffering gets reported? Whose death counts behind glass?
Looksmaxxing. Redpilled. Sigma. Mogging. Cope. Seethe. Malding. Goyslop. Gooning. Memes from image boards became cultural foundation for Generation Alpha. How rich, powerful men have coordinated a harmful online culture for nearly twenty years.
I was permanently banned from r/Calgary for posting my own writing about local public library funding. What does this say about the state of local journalism?
The Calgary Public Library is offering $8,000 for an AI Artist Residency while Canadian artists face funding cuts and 16% grant acceptance rates. There are programs like this around the world. Why?
A CEO took a comically small bite of a burger. The internet erupted. Meanwhile, the US is bombing Iran, Trump is drafting executive orders to seize control of the midterms, and civil unrest is reaching a boiling point. We need to talk about what we're choosing to look at.
A response to Cory Doctorow's defense of generative AI, examining the contradictions in supporting Ollama while championing open source principles, and an examination about what purity culture and hypocrisy really means.
Prompt Engineers Lack Any Canon, Don't You? AI artists have an existential problem: they consume only their own work, severing the dialogue of culture that connects us across generations.
Part 3 of a series on the AI Crisis
Romance and Mythology in Mixed-Martial Arts and the Ultimate Fighting Championship
That’s the Whole Point
How do we reckon with Canada’s Pretendian problem?
The forgotten past of Medium’s most successful writer.
I watched BoJack Horseman from when it premiered in 2014 when I was seventeen up to when it ended. I have grown up with BoJack.
The Necessary, Complicated Legacy of Canada’s Best-selling Poet
An Essay on Potatoes, Figs, Men, and the Truth.
The Age of AI is a Crisis of Faith
Notes on Apocalypse and What We Owe the Living.
and How I’m Trying to Save It
Are you a writer? Do you want to be? Read this.
Growing up alongside Adventure Time over fourteen years, this academic analysis explores Finn's permanent amputation as a radical moment in children's animation—examining fatalism, trauma, prostheticization, and the cultural discomfort with non-normative bodies through disability studies theory.
From watching 'Her' every Valentine's Day for over a decade to witnessing AI's real-world evolution. What are the boundaries between human and artificial love, consent in digital relationships, and what it means to connect when technology mediates our most intimate moments?