~Culture
What the Eels Knew
The Gunditjmara people built a system that ran for six thousand years. What did they know about work, technology, and ecosystems that we've forgotten?
:Essay
Long reflective pieces. Essays that explore ideas, technology, and culture with depth, perspective, and voice.
~Technology
Gardening Malware: When Code Becomes Canvas
When code travels without permission, artists have been asking what it could carry instead — and one strange new program answers with pixel vegetables.
~Culture
Toilet Humor: Why Do We Laugh at the Design That Actually Changes How We Live?
A Spanish company built a toilet that ate its own tank, won a design award for it, and nobody at dinner had anything to say. What our silence about bathroom design reveals about the innovations we dismiss — and why the unglamorous stuff is the only design that actually changes how people live.
~Space
The Splash at 5:07 PM: What a Moon Capsule Teaches Us About Earth
The Artemis II crew came home to San Diego. The quieter story — about money, cooperation, and renewable energy — is still unfolding on the ground.
~Culture
When a Chipotle Burrito Becomes a Social Bridge
Marcus built a color-coded spreadsheet to track his Chipotle points. He's not alone. Inside a loyalty app designed to extract money, something stranger and more human is happening.
~Culture
How We Turn Their Architecture Into Dance Floors
In Bucharest, queer communities are taking over abandoned communist-era buildings — turning architecture built for control into spaces for dancing, belonging, and something the original architects never intended.
~Art
What Can Musicians Learn From an Artist Who Spent Seven Years Arguing With His Machines?
Joost Rekveld spent seven years arguing with his machines to make one film. What he learned about tools, resistance, and creative control is exactly what musicians trapped in template culture need to hear.
~Art
When Custodians Meet Propagandists: The Battle for Museum Independence
The silence inside a museum, that held breath before objects that outlasted every living witness, is getting harder to hear. When political actors treat cultural institutions as messaging tools, shared memory is what they put at risk.
~AI
AI Art Isn't a Creativity Problem—It's a Consent Problem We Never Designed For
Imagine a world where AI never touched a canvas
~Technology
Can Robotaxis Unite Cosplay and Lunar Explorations?
Waymo just went live at San Antonio Airport. Dream Con and San Japan are on the calendar. And someone is about to ride a robotaxi in full costume — which turns out to be more meaningful than it sounds.
~Culture
The Skull Emoji Is Not a Threat (Probably)
My grandmother texted me a skull emoji after I told her I got a promotion. I spent forty-five minutes genuinely concerned she was threatening me.
~Technology
The Listening Body: Why Sound Design Is a Human Problem
We stopped listening because listening became punishing. The listening body, the idea that we hear with bone, skin, and posture, not just our ears, points toward a different way to build technology. One that knows when to be quiet.