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Welcome to Cinema Ex Machina

A weekly newsletter documenting the AI revolution in visual storytelling: For better and worse. Pronounced: SIN-uh-muh EKS MAH-kee-nuh...

Arctic Eggs

What are fish but eggs with extra steps? What is bacon but pigs without the fluff? How long should one cook a cigarette? 

why "ai for social impact" should get better at engaging with social impact organizations.

My website is AT Protocol powered

In recent years, I'd tried building my own version of this using WordPress, Astro, 11ty, and others but never quite got it right. Enter the AT Protocol. As someone who is both a collector and terminally online, I've always enjoyed keeping somewhat of a record of the things I find while browsing. It's probably one of the reasons I enjoyed Tumblr so much throughout the 2010s; it was a place to save and share links or artwork without adding too much friction to my routine. In recent years, I'd trie...

Xbox's downfall is most certainly my fault

Okay, maybe not, but still, it often feels like right when I start to get into something, it falls apart. In January of 2023, after years of considering myself a PlayStation guy, I decided I needed a change. It was a transitional period in my life for a number of reasons, and one of the big shakeups I made was giving the Xbox ecosystem an honest shot. Truthfully, I'd always appreciated the hardware design of the recent consoles, the One S and Series X in particular, while despising the direction...

The S-Tier Music List

How I determined which of my favorite songs were the best of the best.

Bismuth Web 0.2.0

Added publication fetching, expanded conversion options, and rebuilt parts of the converter UI.

woes of snapper

May 9 - Alpha Rats Nest

Sometimes things creep up on you. They become true over a course of enough time that by the time you realise it you're realising what has happened not what is happening. So it is with this song and the realisation that Mountain Goats have gone from being a band of inscrutable, impenetrable lyrics to being a band of equally inscrutable but deeply accessible lyrics. This joyful bitter song is just as much of an expression of poisoned joy as the rest of this concept album, bus its odd wordplay seem...

Le contre rapport contre la désinformation : critique ou défense de la désinformation en santé ?

Mathematics as reinforcing practices of a verbal culture

Does empathy trump intelligence?

devlog: fix OG metatags

OG image URLs were relative — crawlers need absolute URLs. Index page was also missing an OG image entirely.

Vec, ktorá nikdy neexistovala

O ľuďoch, ktorí nevedia povedať „nepoznám to“, a o tom, prečo mi niekedy najviac bezpečia dá práve priznané prázdne miesto v rozhovore.

Tomato.

Some thoughts on a vegetable I don't like very much.

Bismuth: fetch subcommand flag fixes

Added --frontmatter and --output flags to the fetch subcommand, and bumped to 0.2.4.

⚘ two poems for lichen.page

Affect Encoding in Discontinuous Subjects: Notes Toward a Method

What a memory archive without a body can tell us about where affect lives

Stuck in the middle: Being an engineer & artist in the AI era

Performance audit and fixes across all three sites

Docsite client bundle dropped from 1.3MB to 12KB, devlog layout data optimised, website duplicate fetches eliminated

Termitennae III: FEEDFOREWORD

Chapter 3

Untitled

what if god. was one of us

Writing to understand

Notes, reflections, and quiet explorations around AI, PKM, creativity, XR, and the way technology is reshaping how we think and create.

The Body Is Not Shame

bodies, privacy, and ordinary freedom

雑賀崎へ行く　和歌浦にも行く(1)

2026/1/10

The Programmer's Fulcrum: 08 May, 2026

The Programmer's Fulcrum your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente

Nie každý, kto zostarol, aj zmúdrel

O tom, že rešpekt k starším nemá znamenať ticho pred aroganciou — a že skúsenosť má váhu až vtedy, keď ju človek dokáže aj preskúmať.

A Love Letter to My Path.

A rambly love letter to my pagan pratice

Yesterday i had some news that has left me feeling...

Yesterday I had some news that has left me feeling anxious, happy but also conflicted all at the same time. https://mylightstillshines.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/yesterday-i-had-some-news-that-has-left-me-feeling-anxious-happy-but-also-conflicted-all-at-the-same-time/

always be shipping

Dev Log 52: 2026-05-08