They called me Billy Bones
A dying pirate’s confession, told in rum and regret. Billy Bones recalls Flint’s last breath, the cursed map he should have burned, and the boy at the Admiral Benbow who...
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A dying pirate’s confession, told in rum and regret. Billy Bones recalls Flint’s last breath, the cursed map he should have burned, and the boy at the Admiral Benbow who...
A missing girl. A language institute that teaches compliance. And in the basement, something that used to be human before they edited out everything that made him one. Some cases...
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 someone decides...
Why autonomous agents default to mediocrity and how to engineer the trust required to fix it.
We are living in an age of effortless answers. This essay asks what happens to our voice, our empathy, and our sense of self when thinking becomes frictionless—and why some...
We were promised a wilderness of infinite choice. What we received was a perfectly managed park. An essay on recommendation systems, cultural stagnation, and the quiet cost of optimization.
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 “seven sins”...
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 they just...
This is a Faustian reading of AI’s oldest civil war: Symbolic logic versus neural emergence. Connectionism “won,” but its victory created a new Gretchenfrage—whether machine intelligence is meaning, or merely...
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 stalking her...
Skepticism meets superstition in this gritty look at a world where the rules of the city are rewritten by ancient blood. Follow Mr. Mallerie’s journey from a smoky office to...
It started as a routine case and ended as an argument with the impossible. “Van Helsing?” drops a hard-boiled detective into fog-soaked San Francisco, where old European horrors discover they...