Local Music vs. The Machine

Generative AI isn't the Grim Reaper for local music outside major hubs. It's the coroner of something that died for other reasons.

Jun 21 • somewheresy

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The Dreamer Economy

A class of American business has discovered that the most reliable thing to sell a person is the probability they will become someone else.

Jun 20 • somewheresy

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Fable: The First Forbidden Model

The US Government has issued export controls on Fable, a weaker version of Anthropic's frontier LLM, Mythos.

Jun 13 • somewheresy

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May 2026

A Brief History of Agents, by Me & Hermes Agent

If LLMs are like neurons, agents are like brains.

May 31 • somewheresy

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The Imperative: Reversing Capital Outflow From the Urban Core

The American Suburbs were built on wealth extraction from the urban core. We have a unique opportunity to reverse the flow polarity, to the benefit of…

May 31 • somewheresy

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Suburbanasia

The environment younger Millennials and older Gen-Z grew up in withered away their ability to mitigate stress and handle disagreements. Is there any way…

May 23 • somewheresy

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January 2026

You. Guy I Went To High School With. I Can Smell Your ChatGPT Articles

This article is addressed directly to you. I'm on to you and so is everyone else. Here's how to fix it before it's too late.

Jan 12 • somewheresy

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I don't believe in Meme Magic

The rise of online post-rationalist discourse renewed interest in Dawkins' theory of memes, but those who claim to have "cognitive weapons" are almost…

Jan 7 • somewheresy

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Not For Human Consumption

Grey market peptides have built a parallel pharmaceutical infrastructure under the thinnest regulatory pretense. The data reveals a cultural…

Jan 1 • somewheresy

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December 2025

What 50 Milliseconds Feels Like

ADHD involves a faster internal clock: the research is clear. What isn’t clear is why nobody’s connected this to the density of unchosen choices.

Dec 26, 2025 • somewheresy

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What Kills an Online Community? Part One

Weird Facebook (2013-2016) and TPOT/post-rationalist Twitter (2019-2024) stagnated & collapsed from remarkably similar structural mechanisms despite…

Dec 21, 2025 • somewheresy and Concept Country

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November 2025

A short note about cultural evolution.

I saw today that Joshua Citarella was crowned the Left Joe Rogan via the NYT.

Nov 9, 2025 • somewheresy

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