Eight monochrome conceptual images. Scroll for captions.
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Women in Tech / Admit 1
A chandelier hanging absurdly above a vast unfilled space coded for masculine attendance. Cushion brought from home.
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Low Battery Hype Cycle
The AI hype cycle as a sealed, dying snowglobe — the rides are still there but the power's running out. Gartner Hype Ride is closed. Human in the Loop Wheel is closed. The battery is almost flat.
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Caution Hwy
A roadside warning generated by the thing it warns you about. In remote Australia, a hallucinated fuel distance kills you. AI disclaimers as gallows humour.
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Connect to Collide
An abandoned bumper-car arena of Bluetooth mice. Agent-to-agent interoperability as derelict carnival ride — the messy, half-broken state of MCP and agent connectivity.
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Unsubscription IRL
The friction asymmetry of the subscription economy, rendered as a kiosk in the dark. Easy to enter, deliberately hidden exit.
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The Stadium of Authors
The collapse of human writing — once a packed arena of authors, now an empty grandstand of unused keys waiting for nobody. Or the inverse: a stadium of typewriters waiting to type, no humans needed.
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The Fake History of Blockchain
The story Bitcoin wished it had — blockchain de-mystified by being aged into prohibition-era kitsch. Stripped of the futurism and shown for what it actually is.
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Like and Learn
RLHF as a single physical key on the keyboard of language itself. The thumbs-up that shaped the language — one key doing most of the work.
