You probably don’t know me, but you know my greatest hits: “Birds aren’t real,” “5G causes cancer,” “JFK’s head just did that.” I’ve been freelance-writing conspiracy theories since 2001 (the industry really took off that year). Back then, this was an art. I’d spend months researching, building off of preexisting foundations, photoshopping red arrows onto the grainiest JPEGs I could find.
LLM Audit 22 July Conspiracy Theories
Factiverse and Revontulet tested 9 leading AI models with 5,616 requests to see how they handle conspiracy narratives about the 22 July attacks. Read the findings.
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Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying.
22 Points · A Tolkien-Themed Surveillance Empire · A Chairman Who Loved Epstein · A Philosopher-King Blogger On Speed-Dial · And The IBM-Nazi Template Nobody Wants To Name
i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever. part 1: the pigs.
A while back, I replayed Mass Effect; my politics have shifted more towards the left since I last played it about four years prior, and I…
Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"?
On a weird few weeks of A.I.-writing scandals
You Might Debate It — If You Could See It
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Weird Studies
Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire
Untangling the sprawling web of Trump family crypto ventures, and the fortune they’re making by cashing in on the presidency.
COMPOST Special Issue: Stop Surveillance Copaganda
Anti-surveillance stories, reactions, analysis, and incitement built by privacy activists and human rights experts, in collaboration with Strange Horizons as well as the DWeb Camp, DragonCon, and RightsCon communities. The toolkit is now available globally and for free to all creators who want to write more dynamic stories that challenge fascist repression via surveillance tech.
The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics
Work is a cult, here's how to escape
Leaflet's First 10 Atmosphere Field Reporters — writing on art, sports, science, fandom, local scenes and more! - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 033: launching a lineup of new publications reporting on communities across the Atmosphere — give them a read!
ATmosphereConf 2026 - Sooraj's Scribbles
My thoughts and experiences as I volunteered at ATmosphereConf 2026!
How creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollars · Multi-hyphenate
ft. ATprotocol (the remix)
Fake news spreads like an epidemic. Here’s how to stop it.
Researchers study fake news the same way they study the spread of disease. When misinformation “goes viral”, it is not just a metaphor. It is what’s actually happening. via @straits_times str.sg/viz-misinformation
Business As Usual Interrupted By Business As Usual, Followed By Business As Usual
Conspiracies are flourishing in the aftermath of gunfire at The White House Correspondents' Association dinner
