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Latest — 29 Apr 2026

Scaffolding and Letting Go

On seeing Köln 75, overanalyzing it, and being gently corrected Last Sunday an ad popped up on my Facebook feed: Köln 75, playing at the Hollywood Theater. I own a copy of Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert. Couldn't tell you the last time I listened to

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Linjalla: On the Line

A transit RPG for 2–5 players. One session. One city. One line. A sibling game to Les Arrondissements, set in the same quiet uncanny. Different city, different system, same questions: How much do you want to notice? And what does it cost you? THE PREMISE The city runs. Trams

From Wolverines to Myanmar

Questioning the Narrative Models in Irregular Warfare We are not military historians (okay, I took one class in college as an elective). We have no lived experience in insurgency (thankfully). What we have, instead, is a habit of asking questions. What begins as a simple provocation—what does a film

Les Arrondissements: Internal Memorandum

BUREAU DE LA QUIÉTUDE MUNICIPALE Internal Memorandum Classification: Routine (Annotated) Distribution: Clerical / Field / Unassigned Review Reference: QO-17.3 — “Pattern Persistence and Resident Drift” To: All personnel assigned to nonstandard civic phenomena From: Office of Procedural Continuity (Window 4) Re: Clarifications regarding recurring anomalies, resident interpretation, and appropriate administrative posture 1.

Resuming from Dormancy

Confluence — RFC / Runbook Service: Boards of Canada Release: Inferno (May 29, 2026) Owner: Warp Records Region: boc-west-1 (long-lived) Status: RESUMED (from dormancy) 0) TL;DR A long-dormant, stateful service has resumed execution without formal restart logs. Deployment uses artifact seeding (VHS + posters) instead of conventional announcement channels. New workload (Inferno,

We Built an AI Skill for Community Radio Over a Weekend

Here's What We Learned [REDACTED] is a community radio station run entirely by unpaid volunteers. Every week, the music department head downloads a CSV of what got played on air from Spinitron, opens the station's Music Library Downloads spreadsheet — a sprawling Google Sheet maintained by a

The Carrier Signal and the Invisible Aperture

There was a week where the frequency wavered. Not collapsed. Not ended. Just… displaced. A broken foot. Five cities across three states. A bass guitar where there is usually a pair of headphones and a microphone. The carrier signal—Tuesday, 2 to 3 PM on XRAY—modulated briefly into something

The Legible Margin

There’s a band playing. You can hear it from the sidewalk if the door opens at the right moment. A snare crack, a ribbon of organ, a voice catching on a note that someone in that room will remember long after tonight. The door closes. The street resumes. Most

When the Ship Returns to Port

Saturday, April 18, 2026 There's always the ringing. It's a high frequency sonic film through which all sound arrives these days, becoming more opaque and noisome, even painful, depending on what's transmitting. Acoustic guitar, I discovered to my disappointment and dismay, when Nancy played

Smells Like Heritage

One day in high school honors chemistry, I threw together a concoction that I thought was supposed to produce an artificial mint scent. I gave it a cautious waft and realized otherwise. I’d synthesized formaldehyde, and whenever I see “heritage” used as an adjective, I get a flashback—that