Whoever holds the impact driver
How collective building projects force diverse groups to resolve real-time conflicts, share tools, and manage the chaos of community collaboration.
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Photos and Short Stories
A Declaration of War Against the Gray
How seed bombs, cheap paint, and chaotic friction transform sterile concrete plazas into living, breathing neighborhood anchors.
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The Heavy Plumbing of the Cloud
The physical cost of digital life begins in Chilean copper mines and ends in massive, thirsty data centers in Virginia.
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Preference becomes a product of code
Algorithms control what users see and hear, transforming personal preference into a direct product of automated, closed environmental design systems.
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Mistaking a Skeleton for a Living Body
When we automate systems, we often keep the raw procedures but lose the human reasoning that once made them adaptable.
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Carving Around the Natural Grain
How active friction and deliberate errors can save our written voices from the flattening effect of modern predictive writing software.
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A Faster Way to Be Alone
Early computer tutors promised the intimacy of Aristotle. Instead, they built a cybernetic loop that has left us entirely alone.
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Locked Stage Doors and Wet Wool
How a local pottery collective and a theater group became the real safety net when the local factory closed down.
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Nobody Is Checking IDs Anymore
The line between human art and machine output is gone, and our confidence that we can tell is just denial.
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The Playground Next to the Highway
Rented cloud hardware paralyzes AI research. Nations need local, cheap experimental sandboxes to avoid intellectual colonization by foreign tech monopolies.
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