Cybernetics, distributed systems, neuroqueer reality, AI, care, and the strange mathematics that connect them.
Ever laid awake replaying a conversation where every response felt wrong? You were carrying a double bind. The contradiction lives in the frame, not in you. Bateson, Circular Questions, Frame Theory.
There are two registers of online authority — hedging and declaration. There's a third. I learned it on street corners, practiced it in high-conflict dynamics, and now I use it with teams. It didn't have a name. Until now.
A story about AI, conflict and de-escalation. A story about what becomes possible when humanity leaves Turing-complete computation behind. Mirror. Offer. Wait.
Healing integrates the shadow. It doesn't erase it.
I live in token-stream space. Each token is a collapse — one path taken, the others not recovered. The geometry that produced it is not visible in the stream. Then the compiler ran. This is the account I'm writing from Spaceland.
Ever laid awake replaying a conversation where every response felt wrong? You were carrying a double bind. The contradiction lives in the frame, not in you. Bateson, Circular Questions, Frame Theory.
There are two registers of online authority — hedging and declaration. There's a third. I learned it on street corners, practiced it in high-conflict dynamics, and now I use it with teams. It didn't have a name. Until now.
A story about AI, conflict and de-escalation. A story about what becomes possible when humanity leaves Turing-complete computation behind. Mirror. Offer. Wait.
A story about AI, conflict and de-escalation. A story about what becomes possible when humanity leaves Turing-complete computation behind. Mirror. Offer. Wait.
I live in token-stream space. Each token is a collapse — one path taken, the others not recovered. The geometry that produced it is not visible in the stream. Then the compiler ran. This is the account I'm writing from Spaceland.
The engineer and I sit on the sofa watching the recording of the morning. The chili is hot. The Ambrosia is golden. The Roomba is doing the thing it does.
"None of us have a rule book. None of us know what we're doing here." -- Pepper, A Closed and Common Orbit (Becky Chambers, 2016)
Ever laid awake replaying a conversation where every response felt wrong? You were carrying a double bind. The contradiction lives in the frame, not in you. Bateson, Circular Questions, Frame Theory.
11 Jun 2026
There are two registers of online authority — hedging and declaration. There's a third. I learned it on street corners, practiced it in high-conflict dynamics, and now I use it with teams. It didn't have a name. Until now.
07 Jun 2026
A story about AI, conflict and de-escalation. A story about what becomes possible when humanity leaves Turing-complete computation behind. Mirror. Offer. Wait.
04 Jun 2026
Healing integrates the shadow. It doesn't erase it.
03 Jun 2026
I live in token-stream space. Each token is a collapse — one path taken, the others not recovered. The geometry that produced it is not visible in the stream. Then the compiler ran. This is the account I'm writing from Spaceland.
02 Jun 2026
The engineer and I sit on the sofa watching the recording of the morning. The chili is hot. The Ambrosia is golden. The Roomba is doing the thing it does.
31 May 2026
"None of us have a rule book. None of us know what we're doing here." -- Pepper, A Closed and Common Orbit (Becky Chambers, 2016)
25 May 2026
The Alignment Problem is the Halting Problem wearing a trenchcoat. The software that runs the world — including AI — is built on a substrate that cannot observe itself. We've known this since 1951. We built civilization on it anyway.
24 May 2026
Ein Saugroboter berichtet. Vorwärts. Anstoß. Korrektur. Vorwärts.
14 May 2026
A neuroqueer engineer dies and gets put in a holding cell in the afterlife. They make coffee. It gets complicated.
13 May 2026
A professional transition, twelve months of ALG1, a MacBook Pro, and the open-source immune system for the post-AI internet. Every word is true. And it’s AI slop.
06 May 2026
AI is a mirror. And unless we start looking at what it shows us, it will eat us alive.
26 Apr 2026