The Witness at the Threshold
Working the Middle Path in the Age of AI
Part I: The Essay
I didn’t build the model. I didn’t train the data. I’m not on a safety team or a policy task force. But I work near enough to the machine to feel its hum. I
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End Times vs. Refusal
A Field Note for the Present Storm
Prelude: The Bunker Instinct
The Guardian article hit like an alarm bell. “End times fascism,” it declared—a phrase engineered to vibrate in the bones. Trump, Musk, Christian nationalism, tech authoritarianism, economic collapse. It was, in many ways, correct. A real-time catalog of
Cookies, Cables, and Keanu: Mapping the Modern Soul
An excerpt from the Lemur’s Field Guide to Posthuman Cartography
“Know thyself,” they said.
“Clear your cache,” they meant.”
Let’s say someone wants to understand you. Not you-you—not the one with thoughts and feelings and that weird childhood memory involving a balloon and a goat. No, they
Never Leave the Stream
David Bowie and the Current of Impermanence
“I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence…”
— Changes, David Bowie
Some artists leave behind albums. Bowie left resonance.
In The Current, we speak often of Weathering—how one becomes Frayed, Worn, Unmoored. Of how the
Posture, Not Policy: Why We’re Creating BSEP
A Field Note from the Shadowplay SRD
In the rush to regulate and adopt AI, most frameworks fall into two camps: top-down policy documents aimed at governments and tech companies, or developer guidelines wrapped in high-level ethics. These are important. But they leave out the one figure increasingly at the
Gentle Cheerleading from the Left of the Dial: 42 Pitches for Noncommercial Radio DJs
It’s fundraising season again.
Maybe your station used to have a staffer who handed you a tidy pitchbook—full of “listener-supported excellence” and “community-powered media” in that safe, sleepy tone borrowed from public broadcasting and toothpaste ads. Maybe that person is not around this time. Maybe now you’re
TiGGR: Codex of the Repo Men
A TiGGR Retrospective
There’s always a car.
Always a job.
And always something in the back that shouldn’t be—but is.
When we published Plate of Shrimp, Neon Delica Microvan, and Cor, Blimey!, they looked like standalone zines. Different tones, timelines, genres. A punk sci-fi collapse in Los
TiGGR: A Wizard of Earthsea
Where Balance Rolls 2d6
Earthsea is not a world of sword-swinging destiny or flashy power displays. It is a world of wind, water, and names—where words shape the world, and power comes with weight.
This TiGGR scenario draws from the early threads of Ged’s story, not to replicate
A Hollow Square, Full of Life
On shape note singing, AI, and what fragile voices still hold
I’ve sung with a few groups over the years. Some well-oiled, some gloriously chaotic. Once or twice, I stepped into the hollow square.
Not because shape note singing is my thing. But because I was invited. And welcomed.
When the Weird Is a Mood, Not a Monster
On Drift, Omission, and the Shapes We Don’t See Until They Echo
Introduction: More Than Monsters
Somewhere beyond the swampy edge of horror, past the clean-lined architecture of science fiction, a different kind of story waits. It doesn’t leap out. It lingers. It doesn’t explain itself. It