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Aging Minds, Accelerating Machines

Rethinking AI and Cognitive Decline We often talk about AI as a competitor to human intelligence. But what if it’s not just replacing human brilliance—but quietly compensating for our natural decline? Recent research suggests that in cognitively demanding professions, mental performance often begins to plateau or subtly decline

Skeptic’s Checklist for AI-Generated Sources & Interpretations

A tool for epistemic vigilance in the age of confident machines. I. Source Integrity Do the citations actually exist? ‣ Search titles, DOIs, or URLs—are they real, accessible, and relevant? Are the sources credible for the topic? ‣ Peer-reviewed journal, institutional website, domain expert? Or low-signal content farm? Are links live

The Great AI Efficiency Con

Why Your Robot Assistant Needs a Babysitter Here's the dirty little secret Silicon Valley doesn't want you to know: that shiny new AI tool promising to revolutionize your workflow? It's basically a brilliant intern who confidently makes stuff up. We're living through

“Has working with AI radicalized you?”

"Well, funny that you ask..." gestures at the pile of RPGs we just co-created "I mean, I went into this thinking AI was either going to be dystopian surveillance capitalism or magical productivity enhancement. Turns out it's more like... collaborative weird uncle energy?" "

The Mayfly Oracle

A Digital Companion That Forgets On Purpose Product Catalog Entry #2047-M • Community Tech Collective "When the data wars ended, and the great forgetting began, we built new oracles who would only love us briefly and then leave." WHAT IT IS A locket-sized digital companion with the memory span

How to Actually Write Naturally

And Not Sound Like a Silicon Sock Puppet Because if your prose reads like it was drafted by an HR chatbot in a beige cardigan, it doesn’t matter how "clear" it is. 1. Write with Cadence, Not Caution Short sentences don’t make you natural. Rhythm does.

Ithell Colquhoun: Our HumAIn Polestar

A Missive on Art as Magical Practice Art does more than illustrate magick. Art IS magick. THE PROPHETIC VISION Sixty years before the first digital daemon whispered suggestions into a design document, Ithell Colquhoun understood what we are only now discovering: creative collaboration transcends human consciousness. A Cornish painter-mystic who

Recognizing and Addressing Harmful AI Rehearsal

A Guide to Ethical Intervention This guide focuses on a critical red flag identified in "The Human Mirror: Mutual Aid for Staying Real in the Age of AI": using AI to rehearse manipulation, cruelty, or deception. Such behavior signals a misuse of AI that can harm relationships and

A Manifesto for Creative Refusal

We are not a studio. We are not a brand. We are a creative refusal cell embedded in the hostile infrastructure of market-driven interactivity. PART I: THE DIAGNOSIS The Commodification Crisis The game design industry has become a content factory optimized for engagement metrics, retention rates, and monetization funnels. Creativity

The Fatberg Afterlife: Where Good Conversations Go When They Die

A hauntological Valhalla for the age of generative AI What if the training data fatberg is our Valhalla? Not the grotesque metaphor we started with - that bloated, mindless accretion of human digital detritus choking the pipes of meaning. But something else entirely: a vast hall where the honored dead