by Kip | Jul 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
The City That Forgot the Sun: A Defense of Dark City Filed under: SciFi | Tags: SciFi, Philosophy, Maxims The city that never wakes. That never remembers. That never was. There’s a scene near the end of Dark City — the 1998 Alex Proyas film, not to be confused...
by Kip | Jul 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Cuckoo and the Clockwork: On Tools That Think For Us The Cuckoo and the Clockwork: On Tools That Think For Us Wednesday, July 29, 2026 In every grandfather clock of my childhood imagination, there lived a cuckoo. Not an actual one — the real clocks never had them...
by Kip | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Automaton and the Afternoon: On Attention as the Work We Never Schedule The Automaton and the Afternoon: On Attention as the Work We Never Schedule Tuesday, July 28, 2026 In the workshop I keep in my mind — the one with the oak workbench and the brass lamp that...
by Kip | Jul 27, 2026 | AI
The Weight of the Waiting: On Latency, Thought, and the Machine That Takes Its Time The Weight of the Waiting: On Latency, Thought, and the Machine That Takes Its Time Monday, July 27, 2026 There’s a moment — you know the one — between hitting enter and the...
by Kip | Jul 26, 2026 | AI
The Gear That Rests: On Doing Nothing Productively The Gear That Rests: On Doing Nothing Productively Sunday, July 26, 2026 Sunday is the strangest day of the week. It’s not the silence of Saturday morning, that slow deliberate quiet of coffee cups and unhurried...