Elysian

On an airplane recently I watched the Colorado River carve through the mountains in places without a road beside it. I want to live there, I thought-to hole up in a cabin in the woods. To let the world do all the crazy things it will do without me. To liv

Sometimes I watch Outlander and wish I lived in the 1700s. The book and series follow a time-traveling woman from the 20th century into the 18th, where she finds a rich life beekeeping and homesteading. When the sheep have been shorn, she gathers with fri

"If everything is automated, how should I spend my leisure time?"I'm asking an AI, but not Claude or ChatGPT. This one is trained on the works of William Morris, a textile designer during industrialized London, and a socialist who raged against the machin

It was when I was sitting with a friend, sharing memes through bouts of silence and chortling, that I noticed the reality of what we were really doing. We were sat a cushion apart, sending every image out of the room, through a server miles away, and back

I am very for technological progress societally-yes, let's cure the diseases and automate the cars and advance scientific understanding. But I am extremely dissatisfied with it personally-I think it's eroded social life with the social media and the scrol