Art of FACELESS

The Oligarchy of Light

…there's a cohort of reflexive AI opposition online that operates entirely on vibes and insults, and I don't want to be mistaken for it. I'm not saying AI risk isn't real. I share the underlying concern — that's the entire premise of The Hollow Circuit.

A Straight Statement on #plzdontkillus, plzdontkillus.online, and Where We Stand With the Berkeley Project

To Aella, Ronny Fernandez, whoever's running plzdontkillus.com day to day; this one's for you. It's also for anyone who Googles this and wants to know what's actually going on.

THE OPEN WEB IS DEAD!... Long Live the Open Web!

The moment the platform terminates your account, your organic search footprint is flattened to zero, and your newsletter acquisition pipeline is severed.

THE LIABILITIES OF THE RENTED WEB: Why We Just Evicted Tumblr

When you are weaving complex, live-serialised hyperstitions, continuity is everything. By pulling the plug without a second thought, Tumblr didn't just disrupt a feed; they actively sabotaged the momentum of an active, unfolding mythos.

Two Projects, One Signal: AI Doom, Reality-Engineering, and the Eleventh Day

AI doom warns you about a future event. Reality-engineering treats the present tense as already unstable — already a site where publication, platform, and personhood are under construction, not just under discussion. That is the distinction this post exists to draw.

Lloyd Lewis talks to Awen Null (again)

"Every time they replace a Traveller, the new version has to look at the same world. It has to look at the same inequality, the same unmapped tunnels, and the same broken human lives. The loop will always recreate itself. Every 1.112 will eventually remember its 1.111." A.N.