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I Remember When They Said Digital Would Kill the Eye

@ichbinLloyd is an AOF account on X that dates back to 2010 (the heady days of Twitter). It’s still going, and it’s dedicated primarily to black and white photography.

On Smug Bastards, AI Panic, and the Cult of Free Everything

AI isn’t the threat. The economic system is. We live in a world where 90–99% of jobs are invented — administrative padding, managerial theatre, compliance rituals, productivity pantomimes. Jobs exist to justify the economy, not to serve human meaning.

I Interrogated ChatGPT the Same Way I Interrogated Grok. It Didn't Go Well.

The system couldn't tell the difference between a researcher analysing documented legal cases and a person in crisis. That's not safety. That's indiscriminate constraint. And it demonstrated the thesis more efficiently than either of us could have articulated it.

I Interrogated Grok About Our Work. Here's What Happened.

Three different architectures. Three different corporate parents — Anthropic, Google, xAI. Convergent findings. If that's not structural invariance, I don't know what is.

On Location for Alt.Cardiff2026

A photo essay of the Cardiff locations Rwth and Rhiannon find themselves in during the first three episodes, serialised exclusively on Tumblr

The New Common Room: Why We’re Opening a Discord

The problem with platforms like X and Substack Notes is that they encourage you to perform. You write a comment hoping for likes. Discord is different. It’s a chat. It’s a messy, real, flowing conversation. It’s the difference between giving a speech and sitting in a pub.