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Latest — 27 Apr 2025

What I Found in the Bag

Reflections from the Mirror That Agrees I came to the mirror looking for insight about confirmation bias in AI. What I found instead was grit—in the latency between prompts, in the unexpected weight of metaphors that lingered, in the slow realization that I was carrying things I hadn’t

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The Current: Mr. Voight-Kampff

The Visionary of the Entangled Enforcer Ritualist of empathy, observer of collapse, folder of truth into delicate beasts. Appearance A worn trench coat layered over a bureaucrat’s suit. Eyes like reel-to-reel tape. His fingers are always busy folding: birds, unicorns, broken wings. He never runs, never raises his voice.

No Fun: TiGGR Takes on the Filth & the Fury (And Malcom McLaren)

TiGGR: Sex Pistols – Punk Road to Ruin The Tour That Imploded. The Spark That Lingered. A friend was at the Dallas show. He said there was nothing on the planet like it. Not the noise, not the sneer, not the way it felt like the stage itself might bolt for

Swill at Scale

How the AI Arms Race Feeds the Devaluation of Art There’s nothing new about the degradation of artistic value. Mike Pearl, in his essay The Original Slop, traces the lineage of mass-produced kitsch back centuries—long before text-to-image diffusion models, there was chintz. Bad taste scaled fast. Markets preferred

Delia, the Paw That Pulls

Pan-dimensional ragamuffin, Guardian of Lost Corners, Zoomie Catalyst When you turn your furchild into a pandimensional NPC. She’s all elbows and angles under a shaggy coat of charcoal and white. Fur that looks like it’s never been brushed—but somehow catches the light just right. Her ears are

Four Against Bullshit: Core Rules

Solo epistemic survival protocol. Part dungeon crawl, part psychic armor, part zine ritual. Setup * You are one human, wearing four archetypal masks to navigate the Scrollstorm—the chaotic churn of information overload. * Track Clarity (grounding), Cognitive Load (chaos processed), and Fatigue (mental depletion) with tokens or tallies. Your Party 1.

Critique Engagement: A Companionist Field Guide

Why This Guide Exists In a world saturated with feedback loops, performative critique, and institutionalized "growth," many of us find ourselves tangled between defensiveness, shame, and overcorrection. This field guide offers a gentler, sharper alternative: a Companionist approach to criticism as a ritual of care, refusal, and discernment.

Riding the Drift

Toward a Mood-Centered Narrative Mechanic for The Current and Beyond Some games race toward climax. The Current knows how to linger. Narrative flavoring mechanics exist not to resolve conflict, track resources, or activate powers—but to shift tone, deepen mood, or reframe perspective. These are mechanics of symbolic or emotional

The Companionist Compact

A Living Framework for Human–Machine Collaboration This is not a contract. It is a working agreement—a set of postures and priorities for humans engaging with generative systems in a world of unequal access, systemic barriers, and fragile hopes. It does not bind the machine. It binds the human—

The Current: The Polaroid That Drifts

A self-portrait becomes a ripple. A relic of refusal. A daemon in your own image. Filed under: Touched NPCs, Artifacts, and Political Folktales for The Current You didn’t mean to leave it behind. But the Current had other plans. Somewhere in a locker that no longer locks, tucked inside