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I’ve never been a card player. Yet I’ve always been drawn to the aesthetics of card play. From the crisp snap of a freshly shuffled deck, the intricate symmetry of suits and ranks, the quiet choreography of hands and cards, to the charged silences around the table cracked by curt instructions or blown open by… Continue reading From Polo Sticks to Spades: How Cards Conquered the World
I observed my 52nd year Anno Samini with a soup at Koo Madame hier soir. It was the finest soup I have ever had. The consommé was the star. A double-boiled vegetable broth of corn, potato, and figs, it was perfectly clear, holding its secrets until the moment broth meets buds. On the tongue it… Continue reading Morel Mushroom, Vegetable Soup
Barnacles have a way of clinging to you the moment you utter their name. The consonants crackle in the mouth echoing through the the mind’s antechambers before wedging themselves like gravel in the folds of our thoughts. Phonetically and syntactically, “barnacles” is in perfect harmony. Once uttered, it sticks to mouth and mind with the… Continue reading Barnacles: A Phonosemantic Delight and a Philosophical Puzzle
AI Models Can Send ‘Subliminal’ Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil. What? My thumb froze mid scroll. “It’s happening” I thought as I recalled another chilling headline my thumb had recently flipped through: OpenAI’s ‘smartest’ AI model was explicitly told to shut down and it refused Arm up! Unplug your toasters and… Continue reading Subliminal Transmission: GPTs and the Architecture of Inherited Bias
you plant your hedges likeyou’re building a fortress like the tap is a treasure you need to come at with a hatchet. roses.agave.that bougainvillea bastard.a whole medieval armyguarding a weathered spigot. and me,crawling through thornswith sunburnt armsscored like Peruvian pepper barkjust to give your geraniumsa goddamn drink. it’s not hard. just leave a little room.a… Continue reading Put the tap where a man won’t bleed
This proposal investigates zenkha, a culturally defined olfactory and gustatory experience common in Arabic-speaking regions, characterized by a pungent, aldehyde-like sensation arising from specific animal proteins under environmental exposure. The phenomenon is consistently reported in poultry, game birds, lamb, camel, and eggs, but absent in beef, pork, and fish. Unlike spoilage, zenkha appears immediately upon… Continue reading Species-Specific Environmental Protein Reactivity in Poultry and Select Mammals: Biochemical Basis of the Zenkha Phenomenon
Imran Khan sent us a thousand words from his holiday in Greece. They describe a man camouflaged in a pale pink suit and white polo that dissolve into the golden hour’s lavender-tipped amber light washing over the Aegean, the whitewashed walls, even the tablecloths of the repurposed fortification where he stands. For someone who has… Continue reading The War Correspondent on Holiday
The real danger isn’t AI’s fabrications. It’s the ones we institutionalized. Two articles caught my attention this week—not because of what they said about AI, but because of what they revealed about us. The first was the familiar panic: AI is hallucinating and we can’t stop it. Lawyers are citing phantom precedent, researchers are footnoting fiction, and… Continue reading AI Hallucinates a Case – Humans Hallucinate a History
MAGA is not a party. It’s a court of self-abasement. The way to beat it is to plant an arsonist inside its walls. Nancy Mace is back in the headlines—not for policy, but for drama. Her ex-boyfriend is counterclaiming that she threatened to expose private details of his sex life, which she illegally obtained, unless… Continue reading Burn the Pageant
No. 24–1209 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES October Term, 2024 By the People v. United States No. 24–1209 Opinion of the Court Justice H. S. Shaaban delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners, self-styled as representatives of a philosophical movement rooted in individual sovereignty, seek to establish that broad swaths of the modern administrative… Continue reading By the People v. United States
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