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Nosideism

A collection of 16 issues

Q: Are We Not (Iron) Men?

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.” —William Blake Notice of Trespass: Unauthorized alloying of human imagination with machine intellect is hereby condemned. Authenticity demands singular flesh-and-blood authorship. Violators of this decree shall be shunned from the sanctuaries of tradition. In a twilight of tradition,

The Companionist Synthesis Loop

A Field Manual for Living Documents For those who create with others—human, machine, or both. For navigating complexity with clarity, critique, and action. Not a doctrine. A workflow that moves with you. What This Is The Companionist Synthesis Loop is a method for crafting evolving documents through collaborative dialogue,

Beyond Smart and Stupid

Picture a trivia night where one guy’s spitting facts like he’s auditioning for Jeopardy! The crowd’s eating it up—so smart. Meanwhile, the teammate doodling a game plan to keep the team from bombing? No one’s tossing them confetti. But who’s actually saving the day?

Prism, Lens, Fatberg: Reflections on AI’s Shadowplay

A Field Note from the Kaleidoscope Floor An operator’s meditation on generalist language models, garbage data, battlefield targeting systems, and the fragile beauty of refusal. The Light We Split Language models are not oracles. They are prisms. And like all prisms, they don’t create light—they split what

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