Sitemap - 2023 - Thoughts

Zombieland

Idiocracy or innovation?

Bored out of your mind

Inequality makes your daughters slutty

We don’t need no education?

Wishful thinking

Mind the gap

No one’s home

Ghosts and The Machine

Weighty issues

Snuggle up

Not a flash mob

Faith and the future

Infidelity economics

Rousseauification of relations

Serendipitous!

More is more!

Magical money (hey, at least it’s not Only Fans)

Your own personal passive aggressive bot armies

Love, not porn

Let them eat bus passes

Steak is the new smoking

Unbanking the banked

Freedom of movement

Financial hoarding disorders and other excuses

Playing to change the world

Memento mori

God is dead, long live the gods?

Poison Paint

Facial justice

(Very) revealing preference

Death, drugs & rock and roll

Boomergeddon!

Who credit checks the credit bureaus

Future triangulation

Girl math/ government math - the math ain’t mathing

Skimpy

Baby (commodity) boom

1 in 4 cut short

Disposable diversity

Thin people are starving the economy (apparently)

Manopause leave?

Panopticon people

Skills passes and other such things

Pay-to-win cheat codes

Fanworkers of the world unite

But dad, it’s not fair

6 tons of survival

Rent a mum

Investing to lose, on purpose

Great - but who pays?

Baby, did you forget to take your meds?

Indulgences, indulgences, everywhere, indulgences

Life is bad for the planet

Snip-snip hooray?

Friend coaches and the end of friendship

Karpow!

Play deficits and life sentences

The fourth wall is coming down

No one wants to enslave your digital avatar (sorry)

Stay at home dads

Corporate spiritual wellness

Sex recession over?

Title inflation

Counting against creativity

The price of reactionary feminism

The mother of all luxury values

The constitutional right to unsupervised spending?

Disposable memories

Liberland gets real

Loneliness as a gateway drug

Mario Bro diplomacy

Young, thin and unhappy women's day

Rates boycotts and broken social contracts

DIY rejection therapy

Hot milk / hot water

Prescribed play and unnatural nature as commercialised cure

Outsourced moats and ha-ha politics

Fractional reserve carerring

Your freedom or your privacy?

The girl boss is dead, long live the lazy girl(friend)

Professional parents / professional kids

Human handicap scores

On sleep, sex toys and stuffed animals

Back to the future

'lil treat addiction

Are you an NPC?

Barbie gets banned

Consent by emoji

Coneheads and the tragedy of the commons

Lemonaid

A(I)nxiety

Go against the gray(n)

Designer drugs (but literally)

Your own personal Jesus

All the single ladies

Girls, girls, girls

Wars and rumours of wars...

Degenerative AI and sad grey beige "luxury"

Waithood - the lives in limbo

Phone a friend (or your mom)

No sunk costs - the joy of walking away

Compliments required

Water police academy

And the kids loved big brother

Emerald and rose tinted glasses

Age and innovation

Run, hide, fight

Maiden, mother, crone

Round and around the roundabout

Personality-as-a-Service

Anthropomorphism of AI

How to smile

Fear, FOMO and the stock market

Decoupling - when good things don't quite go together anymore

47% bot guaranteed

Trash and trillion dollar coins

Black market gig market - it's all getting very Snow Crash around here

Ugly revealed preferences

A tale of 2 brands, a carrot and a stick

Overemployed and overdated

Just Breathe

Marginal returns to modernity

The power of proximity

Dancing bot to bot

Who dreams of golden handshakes anymore?

An AI friend for your lonely pet

Penny for your thoughts?

Time millionaires

Cost of living crisis and opportunity

Of (competitive) moats and (artifical) men

Musical Sludge & Mid-wit AI

Real Costs of Artificial Worlds

Who do you believe?

Universal Basic Capital

The age of disconsent (no that's not a typo)

Raw-dogging reality

Paper clip maximisers everywhere

Senicide and other such things

Paid not to work

Love-as-a-Service

Guilty until proven innocent

Self fulfilling prophecies and information singularities

Pet toys for a childless generation

Work to rule!

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Behind the Bold Glamour

Human resources or human beings?

The future (of work) is female (sorry about that ladies)

Just don't eat cake.

When your sexbot leaves you on read

It's for your own good

Don't do drugs, kids

Happily-Ever-After-Meals

Luh Twizzy nihilism and K-pop politics - populism gets popular

Toxic femininity (but literally)

"Nepo babies"

Unintended outcomes (again)

It's my party and I'll make you cry if I want to

What's the ROI on a life?

Artificial abundance vs artificial scarcity

They're like vampires, you have to invite them in

What's even the point? On recipe blogs and robo-priests

Kosher bacon

Never travellers

Women without men

Books, books, books!

What happens in the metaverse doesn't stay in the metaverse

Millennials are (still) not like the other kids

Birds are sort of real

Inside the Black Box of Western social (security) credit scores

Air-as-a-Service

Painful incentives

Misinformation mercenaries

The kids are OK (to vote?)

Eco nudge-nudge, wink-wink

15 minute cities and political polarisation of all things...

Digital ownership rights (or lack thereof)