The Algorithm and the Artist: Is A.I. Art Real Art — Or Something Entirely New?
Somewhere in the contested territory between a Midjourney prompt and a Van Gogh brushstroke lies…
Paradigm Shifts in Modern Astrophysics: Applying Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to Dark Matter
A Universe That Refuses to Behave Sixty years ago, a Harvard-trained physicist named Thomas Kuhn…
The Cambrian Explosion of Foundation Models: Why an Unprecedented Proliferation of AI Architectures May Resolve Into a Much Smaller Number of Survivors
Between 2020 and 2025, AI architectures proliferated with Cambrian extravagance. Paleontological history suggests this is the pattern preceding mass extinction and consolidation. Which body plans will survive?
The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens — A Review
Watching Christopher Hitchens debate a room full of theologians was one of the more exhilarating…
The Ruin Sits There Regardless: Spending Three Days Alone at Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Off-Season
Three days inside Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Croatia, off-season in November — a Stoic reflection on power, impermanence, and what we build expecting it to outlast us.
Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford — The Book That Proves Every Machine Is a Philosophy
Lewis Mumford published Technics and Civilization in 1934, and if you read it today with…
