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The Algorithm Behind the Melody: Music Was Always Code — We Just Didn't Have the Debugger
When the comedy group Axis of Awesome performs their famous "4 Chords" medley, the audience usually goes through two distinct phases.
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Exploring the messy intersection of code, history, and human errors. Published regularly... or at least that’s the plan.
The Efficiency Trap: Why AI Won’t Save You from Work
We were promised a 15-hour workweek and a paradise of leisure. Instead, we got "AI Brain Fry" and an infinite mountain of automated slop to verify. Here’s why making things efficient is the worst thing to happen to your free time since the invention of the CC button.
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Art is Just a Very Slow Renderer: Why Art History is a Low-FPS GPU Benchmark
If we strip away the romantic fluff, art history is nothing more than the evolution of computer graphics—just stretched over thousands of years because the hardware was garbage.
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The Myth of the Blank Page: Why We Fear AI for Doing Exactly What We Do
We are terrified that AI is blindly recombining data. But between Jung’s archetypes and Campbell’s monomyth, we might just be scared that it’s doing exactly what we do—only faster.
Compression vs. Camouflage: In Defense of Jargon
We love to hate jargon. But in a world where attention is the scarcest resource, specialized language isn't just annoying—it's a necessary compression algorithm.
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Digital Ghosts: The Long, Cynical History of Data Protection
We think we invented data protection in the age of CPUs. We didn't. We just gave fancy names to tricks used by 17th-century mapmakers and paranoid monks.