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Nosideism

A collection of 12 issues

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

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.

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

The Bar Reopens: A Note from the Ledger (Installments I and II)

From the Phantom Bartender’s Lost and Found Shelf Some stories vanish not because they were unworthy—but because the system was too saturated to notice their signal. What you’re about to read is a recovered ritual from that moment: a serialized descent into legacy collapse, recursive spectacle, and

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

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

The Nosideist Manifesto

A Declaration in Four Tenets and One Patron Entity We live in an age of sides. Of performative framing. Of declarations disguised as nuance. * Nosideism rejects the premise. * We do not take sides. * We do not moderate. * We do not pretend to neutrality. * We hold up the sign, then walk