<![CDATA[Vectorculture]]>https://www.vectorculture.orghttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9uVz!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb56408ac-69eb-4218-ba54-9defda98bde6_1024x1024.pngVectorculturehttps://www.vectorculture.orgSubstackFri, 07 Aug 2026 10:33:05 GMT<![CDATA[Local Music vs. The Machine]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/local-music-vs-the-machinehttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/local-music-vs-the-machineSun, 21 Jun 2026 15:02:18 GMTA twenty-nine-year-old has been making dubstep in the same mid-sized city since he was nineteen. He has 1,400 monthly listeners, a SoundCloud with eleven years of uploads, and a Discord where forty of the same people have encouraged each other since 2016. He often buys his slot at the venue: twenty tickets fronted, sold to the same friends, the unsold o…

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]]><![CDATA[The Dreamer Economy]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-dreamer-economyhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-dreamer-economySat, 20 Jun 2026 18:27:05 GMT

“What I’ve always appreciated about Paul [Worley] is his ability to see, and hear the Forest for the Trees”

- Anonymous

A twenty-three-year-old leaves the Army with a Post-9/11 GI Bill that will pay roughly the full cost of tuition at a private institution plus a housing stipend pegged to the last reported local cost of living. In his city four years pri…

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]]><![CDATA[Fable: The First Forbidden Model]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/fable-the-first-forbidden-modelhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/fable-the-first-forbidden-modelSat, 13 Jun 2026 18:02:57 GMTThree days are all the time it took for the government to crack down on the first model which came close to achieving RSI (recursive self-improvement) after its public release.

And here’s the crazy part — it wasn’t even the most powerful model Anthropic currently has in its inventory.

Claude Fable, released on June 9, 2026 to the public (The New Stack),…

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]]><![CDATA[A Brief History of Agents, by Me & Hermes Agent]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/a-brief-history-of-agentshttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/a-brief-history-of-agentsSun, 31 May 2026 19:24:37 GMTThis article was co-researched and co-written and co-edited by Hermes Agent.

TL;DR

  • The history of AI agents runs from 1980s symbolic and reactive architectures, through the deep-reinforcement-learning game-players of 2013–2017, to the LLM-agent explosion catalyzed by ReAct (2022), Toolformer (2023) and AutoGPT (2023), and finally to the 2024–2026 era of c…

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]]><![CDATA[The Imperative: Reversing Capital Outflow From the Urban Core]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-imperativehttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-imperativeSun, 31 May 2026 15:57:45 GMTA follow-up to Suburbanasia. There, the argument was prudential and addressed to you: leave the suburbs and move to the densest proximal core, because asymmetric gains distribute non-linearly with location. This one is structural and addressed to everyone: the centrifugal flow of money from cores to suburbs is an artificially engineered extraction, and …

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]]><![CDATA[Suburbanasia ]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/suburbanasiahttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/suburbanasiaSat, 23 May 2026 19:50:44 GMTThere’s a supermajority when it comes to the type of world which young people want. Almost all of us claim to want the world to be radically different. Most of us find the work of making it different pointless against the broad opposition of the status-quo preservationists, or the gerontocracy, or otherwise underpaid, or just flat-out unbearable. I’m pr…

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]]><![CDATA[You. Guy I Went To High School With. I Can Smell Your ChatGPT Articles]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/you-guy-i-went-to-high-school-withhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/you-guy-i-went-to-high-school-withMon, 12 Jan 2026 18:15:51 GMTI know all of you (dear Vectorculture readers) have experienced the onslaught of ChatGPT (or, less commonly, other LLM) generated content online, especially on X. Some of these people are getting quite popular, which is frustrating and worrisome to many different groups of people. There’s even folks on Substack in the top 10 that have built a (fragile) …

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]]><![CDATA[I don't believe in Meme Magic]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/memetics-you-mean-marketinghttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/memetics-you-mean-marketingWed, 07 Jan 2026 14:31:34 GMTFirst off, I don’t want people to immediately assume this is a hit-piece on , and others in the space carefully researching the flows of information across the internet (and its niche communities) using opt-in quantifiable methods, publishing regular research and interesting things to GitHub, etc. I recommending subscribing to them to understand what I’…

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]]><![CDATA[Not For Human Consumption]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/not-for-human-consumptionhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/not-for-human-consumptionThu, 01 Jan 2026 19:34:50 GMTThe FDA classifies BPC-157 as Category 2 (ineligible for compounding) while Telegram communities with 35,000 members crowdsource third-party lab testing at $850 per batch. Eli Lilly’s retatrutide achieves 28.7% weight loss in Phase 3 trials while Chinese suppliers ship enough semaglutide API to produce over one billion starter doses. At a December 2025 …

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]]><![CDATA[What 50 Milliseconds Feels Like]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-subjective-density-of-time-determineshttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-subjective-density-of-time-determinesFri, 26 Dec 2025 22:09:19 GMT

"experiencing reality at a high frame rate" is how I've often described my experience & potentially the experience of adhd broadly

both your perceptual sampling rate (experiencing shifts in sensory inputs and/or internal states) AND agency sampling rate (opportunities/affordances to act on something) tend to be higher, which is precisely the reason why y…

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]]><![CDATA[What Kills an Online Community? Part One]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/what-kills-an-online-community-parthttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/what-kills-an-online-community-partSun, 21 Dec 2025 01:30:17 GMTThis essay serves as the first half to thoughts I’ve discussed in private with members, and publicly when drawing comparisons to ongoing social circles and movements on X. It focuses specifically on documenting the parallels between two communities I’ve been active in for a cumulative decade of my life, and now two communities I’ve watched die a simila…

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]]><![CDATA[A short note about cultural evolution.]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/a-short-note-about-cultural-evolutionhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/a-short-note-about-cultural-evolutionSun, 09 Nov 2025 22:25:07 GMTI saw today that Joshua Citarella was crowned the Left Joe Rogan via the NYT. In response, I’ve been watching a ton of people on X talk about how various reactionary & escapist internet subcultures are in slow-motion collapse or capitulation.

The following is a short note I shared in reply to someone talking about this “vibe shift”:

“Memetics” is just on…

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]]><![CDATA[Musicianship, Milady & The Fight Against Time]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/musicianship-milady-and-the-fighthttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/musicianship-milady-and-the-fightSun, 26 Oct 2025 17:35:59 GMTLast night, I was on the way home in an Uber from a concert at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. For the first time in 15 years, and in celebration of my 31st birthday, I decided to treat myself to seeing if I still liked the band Dream Theater as much as I did when I was a child.

I remember the first time I saw them in Orlando around ~2008-09 with my m…

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]]><![CDATA[I forgot to write articles for 60 days]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/i-forgot-to-write-articles-for-60https://www.vectorculture.org/p/i-forgot-to-write-articles-for-60Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:36:12 GMTHello, Vectorculture subscribers. It’s been a while! About two months or so since we last talked.

If you’re coming from X, you know that I’m a big fan of complaining about people who don’t do enough having large audiences, like that one person you know with an F-150 who never uses the bed for anything. Well, for the past two months or so, that’s been me.…

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]]><![CDATA[AI Priests & Occultism]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/ai-priests-and-fascist-occultismhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/ai-priests-and-fascist-occultismThu, 07 Aug 2025 20:43:12 GMTI was one of the early developers of GPT-based tooling. In a follow-up article here, I will explain what I’m seeing as a lesson in history repeating itself.

We need to act fast to stop more cults from forming around these tools. The connection between them and historical rises in fascism.

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]]><![CDATA[The Winner's Guide to AI Memecoins]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-winners-guide-to-ai-memecoinshttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-winners-guide-to-ai-memecoinsSun, 27 Jul 2025 16:00:33 GMTThis article serves as a follow up to an earlier piece of mine, “Winners & Losers in Post-Capitalism: A Primer in Marcosian Economics” which appeared in the physical print of Zine Issue 01. There are still a few reserve copies for academics, journalists, friends and important people. You can request one of the remaining copies by emailing intelligence@…

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]]><![CDATA[The Flood]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-floodhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/the-floodTue, 08 Jul 2025 21:44:15 GMTThis article was originally posted in August 2024, then delisted, because I was trying to land a contract for one of this guy’s friends and didn’t want him reading an article where I said the Gundo was branded like gay sex. Doesn’t matter now.

Early in the morning on July 4th, around 1:14 am CDT, a Flash Flood Warning was issued for Kerr County, TX.

At 4…

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]]><![CDATA[I'm changing the publication's name]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/im-changing-the-publications-namehttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/im-changing-the-publications-nameSun, 29 Jun 2025 16:35:05 GMTSo, several of you who have been subscribers since the beginning probably have noticed that each time I send out a new article, it just says Somewhere from Somewhere, which can be a bit confusing. So I’m changing the name of the publication to a theory which I intend to stamp into the concrete before someone else claims it as their own. Such is life on …

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]]><![CDATA[Mapping the AI Media race]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/who-is-winning-the-race-to-ai-videoshttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/who-is-winning-the-race-to-ai-videosThu, 26 Jun 2025 02:50:07 GMTI have a long history as a player in the Great AI Wars, which predates my career in software engineering. In fact, when I was back on X — I was one of the top 1,000 most blocked accounts on the platform. Not because of spreading controversial political ideas (on an object-level, I think most of mine are pretty tame), nor from targeting users for harassm…

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]]><![CDATA[Publix subs are overrated]]>https://www.vectorculture.org/p/publix-subs-are-overratedhttps://www.vectorculture.org/p/publix-subs-are-overratedThu, 19 Jun 2025 15:46:46 GMTIf you’ve spent more than 15 minutes talking to someone in Florida, you’ve probably heard of Publix, the popular grocery store and deli chain. Positioned somewhere between a Kroger and a Whole Foods, Publix is — for many in the South — the People’s Grocer.

On Sept. 6, 1930, George Jenkins opened the first Publix location, known then as Publix Food Store…

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