Life in Patreonia: Inequality in the “creator economy”
If Patreon were a country, it would be the most unequal country in the world.
Posts
Thugs at the Ren Faire
We love stories about the thuggish rulers of yore.
My dear boy, why don’t you just try writing?
Prompting ChatGPT to write a story seems more difficult than just writing one yourself.
Three Iliads
I compare three translations of the Iliad, old and new.
Ozu’s “Early Summer” seems pretty darn queer to me
I explore how the central film of the Noriko trilogy questions heteronormativity.
Why I like Cohost
My thoughts on why Cohost is the most fun blogging site I’ve ever used.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the future of Europe
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is no more, but something like it may yet rise again.
Year-end recommendations (yuri or otherwise)
In which I recommend some yuri and other works I enjoyed in 2022.
The liberation of the Minecraft End Poem
The story of how a game-ending poem was gifted to the world.
AI is to the world of ideas as index funds were to investing
Will LLMs disrupt human writers as index funds disrupted stock pickers?