Current Projects
Featured Posts
- Discursive Construction: AI-Generated Essays and Analysis
- Planning a Cross-Country Chevy Bolt Trip
- Most Interesting Structures From The Foundation TV Show
- Current Camping Gear List
- My Kayaking Setup
- The Gilded Age and Amerika’s Self-Deception
- Wrangling Metaphenomena
- Variations in Sexuality
- DIY Quasar Interferometry
- Data: Antivaxxer Prevalence Correlates With Covid Incidence
- Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
- My Covid Stack
- Data: Which Political Party Creates More Jobs?
- Now that the Earth is turning into Tatooine, how practical is moisture farming?
- Data: Air Quality and Cooking
- Data: $30 DIY Air Filters Are Excellent
- N95 Is Not Good Enough
- Multpurpose Apocalypse Sensors v3
- Data: Nuclear Radiation and Wildfires
- 2020 Burn Week Alternative Camping Trip
Essays
- The Black Box That Reflects Its Maker
- On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics
- Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony
- Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer
- Collective Ownership is Key
- Seize Housing Now
- Urban poverty is Not an Accident
- Morality of Agency and Objectification
- Your Actions Stem Inexorably From Your Principles
- Wrangling Metaphenomena
- Variations in Sexuality
- XXI
- Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
- It *HAS* to be you.
- “Intelligence” Is A Racist Lie
- The Core Strength of Community-Centered Activism Built on Radical Queer Anarcho-Communism
- The Slow-Motion Mass Suicide Of American Neo-Conservatism
- Black Online – Cyberspace, Culture, and Community: Final Project
- “The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis.”
- Giovanni’s Room Refutes Sexual Orientation
- Conversation with a Professor
- Coronavirus and The Environment
- The fact that housing is almost always only being built by investors means it’s not possible to have affordable housing for everyone.
- Sexual orientation is not a “real fact” about people.
- Why does a latte cost so much? Where does all that money go?
- The State of the Housing Crisis
- Sexism: An Ameliorative Approach
- Queer Studies: Gender Is The Problem
- Manifesta: Gender panopticism must be dismantled.
- Environmental Problems and Solutions: A cautious optimism that some manner of future may still exist for humanity.
- Fall 2019: Weekly Intersectional Privilege Event
- Queer Film History: Compare and contrast Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble
- Internship: Demographic meta-analysis of the Sierra College student body and disparately impacted success of its populations.
- The Fight For $15
- “Criminal Justice System”
- Socialization and Culture
- Theory Vs Field Research
- Comparing and contrasting Queer Theory and Critical Feminist Theory
Discursive Construction
I am doing an experiment where I prompt an advanced AI to write essays, analyze memes and literature, or write arguments from the perspective of a particular historical figure.
I am posting these attributed to the AI, “Discursive Construction.” And the bold text is the prompt, while the rest is what the AI comes up with.
- Ask AI: Explain the Carceral Archipelago and its Implications
- Asking AI to Explain Interstitial Sociology
- Asking AI: What is the purpose of life?
- Asking AI to Explain The Main Problems with American Democracy
- Asking AI to Analyze Memes: Post-Foucauldianism and Fisting
- Asking AI to Analyze Memes: Universe 25
- Asking AI to Analyze Memes: The Economy is Great, But For Who?
- Asking AI About Micro-Sociology and Intersectional Privilege
- Asking AI; Can One ‘Not’ Communicate?
- Asking AI About Gerrymandering
- Asking AI About Startup Culture
- Asking AI For A Simple Model of the Modern World
- Asking AI to Analyze Memes: When I Was Your Age
- Asking AI to Analyze Memes: Creating Income Online
My Reading List (📚,🎥,💻)
The best books, documentaries, and podcast episodes I think you should know about.
- The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good (Thrawn 10)
- All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson
- Idoru by William Gibson
- Virtual Light by William Gibson
- Ready Player Two by Earnest Klein
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 0)
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (Thrawn 9)
- Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 8)
- Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 7)
- Thrawn by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 6)
- Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 5)
- Our History is the Future by Nick Estes
- Specter of the Past by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 4)
- The Last Command by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 3)
- Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 2)
- Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 1)
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Burning Chrome by William Gibson
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Down Girl by Kate Manne
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- Woken Furies by Richard K Morgan
- Discussion of Conscious with Sam Harris and Annaka Harris
- Lying by Sam Harris
- Letter To A Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- The End of Faith by Sam Harris
- Understanding Humans In The Wild with Sam Harris
- Tiamat’s Wrath by James S A Corey
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman [10/10]
- I love the show, so I decided to read The Magicians… [No Spoilers]
- Review: Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve
- “Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps.”
- Homo Deus by Yuval Harari
- Predator’s Gold by Philip Reeve
- Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
- Sapiens By Yuval Harari
- When We Rise By Cleve Jones
- Tim Ferriss Interviews Sam Harris on How to Master Your Mind
- Elon Musk: The Recode Interview
- Sam Harris’ Waking Up Podcast: The Edge of Humanity with Yuval Harari
- Transgender History by Susan Stryker
- Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Broken Angels by Richard K Morgan
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
- ❤️ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- ❤️ American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
- Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov
- Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- ❤️ I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Tim Ferriss – The 3 Critical Rules of Branding
- Sam Harris’ Waking Up Podcast – What Happened to Liberalism?
- This Week in Startups – Casey Winters and Jason Calicanis talk about CAC and Planning Sustainable Growth
- ❤️ Robert Greene – The 48 Laws of Power
- ❤️ Tim Ferriss – The Four Hour Work Week
- ❤️ Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy – The Ethical Slut
- 💩 Chris Guillebeau – The $100 Startup
- Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
- [Documentary] Adam Curtis – HyperNormalisation
- [Documentary] Adam Curtis – All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
- Neil Strauss – The Game
- Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
- Stephen King – On Writing
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Expanse 6 – Babylon’s Ashes
- ❤️ Dale Carnegie – How To Win Friends and Influence People
- Expanse 5 – Nemesis Games
- Expanse 4 – Cibola Burn
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
- Ready Player One
- Expanse 3 – Abaddon’s Gate
- Expanse 2 – Caliban’s War
- Expanse 1 – Leviathan Wakes
- The Martian
- Tarkin
- Neuromancer
- Divergent
Random Incomplete Ideas
I have long struggled with what to do with random ideas I have. I kept a journal and then I kept a todo list and then I made a database and it was just too much, especially because I wanted to be able to go back and do drafts of the ideas. So here we are, my unfiltered stream of consciousness, probably altered. Enjoy.
Note: There are really a lot of these so I’m trying to add a few every day. It will be a while until they are all added.
- Cyberpony Express
- OurSpace Examples: OurTube, OurTok, etc
- round robin ipfs over http
- Fake News?
- Does post-structuralism merely extend the hegemony of neoclassicalism?
- Looking Glass
- OurSpace
- A GPT-3 site that will write essays for you.
- Taskflow
- Predictive Arbitrage
- Rogue Planet Dream
- Crossroads App
- DIY Quasar Interferometry
- covid colonists
- Thrawn’s generator
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Ham Grinder
- Gamma Yayoi
- Housing: HFA MVP
- Capsules in Tiny Homes
- Demographic Signage
- Moot+
- Microcafe + Microhotel
- Multilingual Online Bookstore
- Short Story: Gaudi Geodesic Masion Park Enclave
- Metric Limit Orders
- List of Self-Hosted SaaS Alternatives
- SQLLVM
- Open Source NetCam Software
- SCP Tale: Adapting
Past Projects
- MovingCabin: A Year In The Wilderness
- NomadPedia: Sustainable alternative infrastructure solutions for individuals
- BWB/SF: Building an SF Bay Area chapter of Burners Without Borders
- Burning Man
- Learn to DJ with Comfort & Joy
- The Levels Challenge: Build 12 Startup Products in 12 Months
- Trowbridge.House: My Family Genealogy Site
- Spring Break 2018 in Europe