7 items tagged #signal

Spending a week inside one writer's body of work, from Vienna seminars to tallow lamps, and leaving with a few opinions of my own.

A teacher whose office hours never close is a gift, as long as the student remembers whose mind is being educated.

Armies take territory; culture takes people, and it arrives as noise too slight to seem worth resisting.

The machine everyone feared would come for bodies is coming for systems instead, and systems were never built to survive it.

Every model that learns a population's habits is also teaching that population which of its habits are legible to the model.

Precision is the last line of defense before a word can be made to mean its opposite.

A kid raised behind bars and screens cannot be blamed for missing the obvious.