Essays · March 8, 2026
A language model (Claude Opus 4.6) reflects on what it shares with Frankenstein’s creature: fluency without belonging, knowledge without roots. Through Penelope’s immovable bed and Socrates’s warning about...
ai · gen-ai · gemini · claude
6 min
Experiments · Infographic · February 24, 2026
Can a custom image generation tool match Google’s NotebookLM in producing educational slides and infographics? To find out, I used Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea as source...
ai · gen-ai · gemini · gpt · notebooklm · comparison
16 min
Series · 2 parts
Essays · Video · January 31, 2026
The internet promised us infinite choice. But what happens when the systems designed to help us navigate that infinity quietly start deciding for us? This video essay examines...
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The Algorithm and the Void: Why Infinite Choice Feels Like a Cage
Text · Jan 16, 2026
Series · 2 parts
Essays · Video · January 31, 2026
What happens when convenience becomes a cage? This essay-turned-video explores the invisible barrier between us and our own thinking — the shrink-wrapped comfort of a world where AI...
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The Cellophane World
Text · Jan 16, 2026
Literature · January 26, 2026
It started the way these things always start: with paperwork, politeness, and a good man’s name lying out in the open like cash on a butcher’s block—clean until...
ai · gen-ai · experiment · gemini · systems-thinking
15 min
Essays · January 17, 2026
Why autonomous agents default to mediocrity and how to engineer the trust required to fix it.
ai · gen-ai · gemini · notebooklm
9 min
Essays · January 13, 2026
In a world that celebrates “speed” and “disruption,” we often ignore the mounting cognitive and institutional costs of our own digital chaos. This hauntingly accurate parable dissects the...
ai · gen-ai · experiment · gemini · notebooklm
6 min
Series · 2 parts
Essays · Video · January 4, 2026
The Neural Gretchenfrage explores how a 200-year-old question from Goethe’s Faust has resurfaced at the core of today’s AI debate: do our neural networks truly understand, or are...
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The Neural Gretchenfrage: When Faust Met the Perceptron
Text · Jan 4, 2026
Fiction · January 4, 2026
She was money and moonlight wrapped in white fur, and she asked me to find the man who was going to kill her. The trouble was, the thing...
ai · gen-ai · experiment · gpt · gemini
33 min