Art of FACELESS

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.

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.