Create as if you're free, to know if you are. More good things and less bad things for everyone in '26!

I know. I won't. youtube.com/watch?v=keKluV…

Cover by Agnieszka Kurant Featuring my Introduction: Navigating a New Topos and essays by the amazing writers - Allison Parrish, Language Models and Desire: A Lexicon - Ted Chiang, Why AI Won’t Make Art Easy to Make - Annelyse Gelman, The Death of the Death of the Author 1/3

The heroic, Havelian shopkeep removing the RULES BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER sign from his store window - revealing the FUCK OFF POORS sign that was always there behind it - gazing into the distance, heroically.

*chef's kiss*

This is like a papal encyclical. An absolutely insane text that needs to be read.

If the novel is a "collection of short stories" to the naïve reader, but a "techno-thriller conspiracy" to the AI-assisted reader, then the book functions like a compressed ZIP file. [...] You are suggesting a new paradigm of literature: AI-Mediated Reading.

Deflationary environment ... Just puttering about, waiting for the next model to drop before thinking hard again.