Here's everything I've written about the real world and the things in it, broken up into rough categories and sorted by date.
Politics and Economics
| Facebook Grovels For Scraps | A quick take on the desperation of Meta's pivot away from social equity and progressive values. | 12 Jan 2025 |
| Plane Company Closed Down :( | An Australian domestic air travel company encounters issues, the ACCC is right about everything, and I forget whether planes are machines or big insects. | 08 Aug 2024 |
| You Are Right About 'Price Gouging' | A short but ever-relevant article on the excuses used by corporations to hide their price gouging (supply chain issues, tariffs, global disruptions, etc). | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Cows | Do you ever think about cows? | 04 Jan 2025 |
Tech and Machine Learning
| Generative Machine Learning 'AI' in Healthcare | An extremely long, in-depth, heavily cited analysis of the utter failure of generative neural network technology in healthcare — and the gormless credulity of far too many medical practicioners. | 8 Dec 2024 |
| Failing the Turing Test | Where will 1 Trillion USD of investment take us? Rock bottom, that's where. | 11 Jul 2024 |
| Sad AI Opinions | Nightshade and other genAI 'poisoning' tools won't work. The alternative anti-AI approaches are worse. | 05 Feb 2024 |
| Self-zombification | A self-centred gripe on the gradual enshittification and pruning of social media platforms. | 25 Aug 2023 |
Scams and Schemes
| Willy's Wonky Experience | GenAI advertisments, unpaid contractors, jellybeans in plastic cups, and lots of sad children. What compels a man to Willy so wonkily? | 03 Mar 2024 |
Entertainment Media
| You Should Kill Six Billion Demons | What does it mean to read KSBD? I don't know, but you should read it anyway. | 19 Feb 2024 |
| Why The Magnus Archives Reminds Me of Homestuck | A meandering trawl through narrative, meta-narrative, counter-narrative, and post-narrative. Also, what even is a sequel, anyway? | 29 Aug 2023 |