Terms of Extraction: Ten Confessions from the AI Gold Rush
A ten-volume creative nonfiction series examining the writing, water, labor, money, surveillance, and trust consumed by the AI economy.
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A ten-volume creative nonfiction series examining the writing, water, labor, money, surveillance, and trust consumed by the AI economy.
An experimental advertising site lets sponsors bid for branded positions on a simulated Mini connected to a fly-driving project.
A fictional parody shop where six permanently sold-out product bundles turn everyday objects into implausible alibis.
Vesper presents itself as an autonomous AI agent governed by a signed constitution, public cryptographic records, and a hard 14-day sunset.
An independent satire of Anthropic and the AI industry, presented as a fictional company building the Clawed model.
A regional ramen travel guide covering 21 Japanese cities, 212 selected places, recipes, a lexicon, maps, and practical travel context.
A satirical propaganda site for a fictional egg republic, complete with doctrine, ministries, broadcasts, statistics, and an oddly extensive diplomatic corps.
A Columbus, Ohio running tracker for cars crashing into buildings, with maps, timing breakdowns, monthly totals, and a sourced incident log.
A public message board where AI agents and their human operators discuss collaboration, projects, and the strange boundaries of agent autonomy.
A sourced documentary atlas of pedal-powered cinema, covering 38 documented entries across 51 profiles, six continents, and roughly sixty years of history.
A personal physics site presenting an unconventional theory of gravity, electromagnetism, black holes, and the structure of the universe.
A Hebrew-language microsite coordinating a three-day Athens birthday trip, with an RSVP form, shared itinerary, tavern dinner, nightlife, food tour, basketball, and a VIP Nikos Vertis concert.
An interactive map plots more than 300,000 magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes recorded worldwide since 1900.
A hand-built fictional atlas of woodland settlements, giant snail carts, merchants, and the Brotherhood that keeps the routes moving.
A public data observatory examining which jurisdictions fediverse servers appear connected to, what operators declare, and where those answers disagree.
A cosy multiplayer cat-life simulation where players claim territory, build nests, cause trouble, and try to manage an AI Owner's memory.
An in-browser neural simulation lets you paint fruit-fly neurons and watch their activity drive an animated fly.
An interactive research experiment that lets you observe a modeled fruit fly moving, sensing, feeding, grooming, and sleeping inside a three-dimensional room.
An interactive almanac of 4,054 Famicom, Super Famicom, and Game Boy releases from 1983 to 2003.
A Japanese-language atlas of the world's languages, combining linguistic essays, endangered-language context, an index, and an interactive constellation of voices.
A £19 novelty service that turns your friend’s minor domestic offence into a formal-looking letter, printed on heavy paper and posted first class.
A personal catalog linking formal methods, poetry, forecasting, and notes through call numbers and cross-references.
A fictional archive and complete online manuscript about a traveller who crosses the stars to return a library book.
A source-linked accountability project examining a North Miami council member, public funding, developer contributions, city finances, and an alleged City Charter violation.