Alt.Cardiff2026
WHERE IS AWEN NULL?
The first 6 episodes are free on Tumblr. After that? The series moves into the AltCardiff2026 GlitchZine Newsletter — subscribers only.
FACELESS
AI
You Can't Have It Both Ways
AI companies are currently selling consequences — your business will run better, your research will go faster, your decisions will be sharper — while refusing accountability for the output those consequences depend on.
The Hollow Circuit
THE HOLLOW CIRCUIT™ CANON RELAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT
The Hollow Circuit™ represents the convergence of 14 years of Cardiff street photography, philosophical investigation, and practical AI research into a cohesive transmedia universe now protected by international trademark law.
Photography
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
Alt.Cardiff2026
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
Social Media
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.
Art of FACELESS
The 10% Partner: When “Neutrality” Pays the Bills
We warned that when you build an architecture that mistakes politeness for morality, and algorithmically rewards the loudest voices, you create a permission structure for dehumanisation.
The Hollow Circuit
The Archive Opens: Chronicles of The Hollow Circuit™
The Hollow Circuit™ is no longer just a story. It is a functioning multiverse. It encompasses: The Art of FACELESS archival history (2012-present) The predictions of biometric control that are now coming true The "stray signals" of our ongoing research and documentation.
Art of FACELESS
They Scraped a Decade. We're Documenting Their HARDCORE FAILURES
They wanted to steal The Archive of Beautiful Mistakes. Now every theft becomes an archive entry. They're the hardcore failures we've been chronicling.