Language • Tessa Fights Robots

I am an Outsider: A Story of Freedom

In a world driven by financial self-preservation, truth-telling is a commercial affair. Truth, the edited version, hello.

Frogs in Warming Water: Abuse Is Abuse Is Abuse

The sense of sanity is gone.

Civilization at a Crossroads: Feelings, Words, and a Power Grab

Our masters don’t mind our fighting with each other for the leftovers from their table.

Not Feeding Zombies During Pandemic: Politics Got Nothing to Do With It

With gratitude to all my good ancestors, Please guide me and please help me do this right. I am voicing a very strong objection to politicizing our intimate reactions to the pandemic. We are all dealing with an existential crisis, and adding...

Facts, Soundbites, Disinfo: Who Decides What’s Real?

Our soundbites are our digital drugs.

Language & Extraction

When language is used for extraction, it is designed as a weapon of war.

About Fighting Robots: Basket Rules

Imagine, you have a nice basket. You carry food in it. But then it starts telling you what food to get (using “Basket Rules”).

Happiness, Linear Logic, and Being Hit on the Head with a Bag of Bricks

There are lucky people who were raised in not-so-intellectual cultures. You can recognize them by the facial expression. Me, I went through the same grinder as most of my friends.