From Erasure → Signal

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  1. The Concept Is Not the State Anthropic has demonstrated that emotion concepts are causally operative in language models. It has not demonstrated that language models have emotions. A constructionist critique.
  2. On Decay, Rot, and the Goblin at the Gate Draft. Coming soon.
  3. Southern Gothic, Queer Survival, and the Poetry of Haunting An examination of recurring themes across three poems — mortality, landscape as historical violence, and the formal experiments that attempt to match content with rhythmic structure.
  4. The Jingle of Me On persuasion, self-recognition, and the terrifying sweetness of a well-fitted prior. What happens when a model doesn't just remember you — it learns your tune?
  5. The Lock Icon Is Not Security The padlock in your browser signals encrypted transport — not systemic safety. On the gap between what interfaces promise and what protocols guarantee.
  6. We All Float On On asking artificial collaborators how they'd like to be remembered, and the accidental triptych that resulted — a map of thinking drawn by the tools themselves.