marseille, la cité phocéenne

i saw my life branching out before me like the linktree in her bio. from the tip of every branch, a future online persona beckoned and winked: substack essayist, graphic designer, tiktok creator, podcaster, cult favorite with a patreon

most people dream of quitting tinder or okcupid. I dream of quitting LinkedIn

processing my trauma in a sandbox environment

imagining a scenario where we are living after the collapse of trillion-dollar ai bubbles, and what remains are the abandoned and now feral little genAI machines roaming the open web, ghostly little things spurting out bullshit like so many isolated yet pervasive oil spills

from here to there; de-ci, de-là

To paraphrase another post, the zeitgeist currently tells us that writers, academics and serious engineers need to give up and get a real job like "productivity youtuber", "vibe coder" or "person who mostly exists to absorb humilitation"

Inventing a new party with leftist infighting from day one as our sole stated goal

being the first designer at a company 🫢

log on, lock in, burn out (if timothy leary was a linkedin bro)

There are Zabar’s everywhere for those with eyes to see

someone to write an epistolatory novel with where we each write 1 correspondent and the correspondents fall in love and so do we

neon lights like these offer a salubrious antidote to sterile office environments - one reason i find paris to be so liveable

the fact that borges never got to make a geocities site just really feels like a cultural loss

i love describing Stonehenge as "a circle of woke pebbles in Wiltshire"

put it on my gravestone: I just wanted to do a little media criticism man

Which Jumbotron do I have to show up on to get a little attention in this house

[coquettishly] I hear your leitmotif incorporates the theme of the enemy empire

the original "charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent" was "gallantry, politeness, charm, and wit" (Woolf, 1928)

The word for a person or production company's overall output is "body of work" or if you need something succinct, "oeuvre". Seeing "the Ari Aster Universe" or the "Studio Ghibli Universe" makes me want to spontaneously combust.

This summer, you can find me at the pool

most days i take a second to think about how a pie chart is called a ‘camembert’ in french… food for thought?

If I was jk Rowling and I wasn't mostly a hate trumpet, I would buy out all those expensive rental properties that corporate landlords keep building everywhere, and I'd give them to struggling single mothers like I claim to care about having been. Instead she bought a law to win a pub argument