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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Extorted
Why the “queue” is a lie, the “price” is a hallucination, and the only thing guaranteed is the crushing weight of buyer’s remorse.
Jan 15
Using a Supercomputer to Microwave a Potato
How we're wasting the most powerful thinking tool ever built on writing LinkedIn posts
Jan 14
The AI Performance Review: Judged by a Spreadsheet's Gaze
How being measured by an algorithm is like being judged by your Fitbit's disappointed face
Jan 13
The End of Secret
The really scary bit is in the permanence. "I’m not a person. I’m a collection of bowel-related data points ...."
Jan 8
When 'Possible' Becomes a Crime
'She’s not replacing actors, she’s democratising content.'
Jan 6
Short essays on AI, technology, power, and the systems that think for us.

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The Great Un-Banking
How Banks Are Un-Inventing Convenience to Fight Fraud.
Dec 31, 2025
We’ve Finally Automated Parental Disappointment.
When Parents Outsource Emotional Manipulation to AI. We’ve Built The Infrastructure For Infinite, Personalised Guilt.
Dec 29, 2025
I Became The Bluetooth Headset Tosser So You Don't Have To
This "Productivity Hack" Cost Me Hours Of My Life (And Made Everything Worse). The real problem isn’t the interface. It’s the delusion that speed equals…
Dec 27, 2025
How Smart People Talk Themselves Into Utter Bollocks
Intellectual bollocks about “agency frame rates” and consciousness that sounds vaguely scientific, uses proper terminology in almost the right way, and…
Dec 26, 2025
Prose-washing my writing
If you consume enough of this smooth, personality-free AI prose, does your own writing start to sand down its rough edges?
Dec 26, 2025
Deloitte's CTO Admits What We Already Knew About AI Spending
How to Waste Millions on AI. Deloitte’s latest research confirms companies are buying jet engines and duct-taping them to bicycles. Worker trust in…
Dec 24, 2025
I Met Someone IRL and It Was Disgusting
In Real Life, everything is a live, unedited broadcast running on an ancient, unreliable server.
Dec 23, 2025
Ken, Gary, and the Death of Customer Service
They told us chatbots would save time. They lied.
Dec 22, 2025
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