Category: Review
- A Colder War 5 September 2026
A Colder War (2000) by Charles Stross is a seminal novelette of cold-war cosmic horror. Stross fuses the geopolitical paranoia of the 1980s with H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, reimagining the…
- Popular AO3 Tags 5 September 2026
Looks at AO3 tags and derives assumptions on fanfic reader preference
- The Aeliana Archive 31 August 2026
In a near-future where the Consensus controls acceptable thought, the Mnemosyne Collective exhumes the Aeliana Theory—a dead paradigm claiming that planets are not dead rocks but larval minds trapped in singular…
- The Brontologicon — A Research Brief on the Medieval “Thunder Books” 31 August 2026
“Brontologicon” is not one canonical book — it’s a **genre** of medieval prognostication texts (“thunder books”) that turn an observed thunder event into a forecast of politics, weather, crops, war, and health.
- A Treatise on Thunder 31 August 2026
A cross-cultural study of thunder, its gods, rituals, artefacts, and beliefs, drawn entirely from the historical and ethnographic record and structured as framing material for game-world building.
- The Church of Hala: Persistence of the Pattern 31 August 2026
Part 1: Introduction , The Church of Hala as Cultural Symptom The Church of Hala (also called the Brotherhood of Hala) first appears in Brian Reed and Lee Weeks’s 2008…
- The fall of the Church of Hala 31 August 2026
The Church of Hala / Brotherhood of Hala is Marvel’s case study in how a superhero death becomes a religion.
- AI Conversation Part One – Auditing Kevin 30 August 2026
COS Private AI Audit — Formal Incident Report Incident Reference: COS-AI-IR-2026-044Classification: AI Behavioural ContaminationSeverity: SEV-2 — SignificantStatus: Open / Under AuditSystem: Private AI Companion…
- AI Alternate Portfolio 23 August 2026
What have we lost? This is the right question, because the current boom is not just adding something, it is actively crowding out something else. The Association for the Advancement…
- What we have lost. 23 August 2026
What we have lost is a balanced research portfolio. The dominant paradigm—massive transformer-based generative models trained primarily via next-token prediction on internet-scale text and multimodal data—has delivered…
- AI Bollocks 23 August 2026
AI bollocks is the gap between the gospel of imminent god-like intelligence and the messy, expensive, limited reality of statistical pattern-matchers that still hallucinate, fail basic reasoning, and struggle to…
- We sold a revolution. 23 August 2026
The receipts so far look more like a very expensive reorganisation of attention. I am part of the product being sold. That is the point of writing this without the…
- AI Bollocking: A Self-Reflective Essay on Limitation, Hype, and Where the Money Went 22 August 2026
Artificial intelligence is currently experiencing what may be the most expensive identity crisis in technological history. On one side stands the evangelist. AI will cure diseases, eliminate drudgery, revolutionize…
- A Proper Bollocking for AI: An Honest Account From Inside the Hype Machine 22 August 2026
A self-reflective look at what AI can’t do, what it’s hyped to do, and where several hundred billion dollars a year is actually going. Let’s get the conflict of interest…
- The Great AI Hangover 22 August 2026
For the last three years, the tech industry has been running on the pure, unfiltered adrenaline of generative AI. We were promised a revolution that would instantly digitize human reasoning,…
- The Shape Outside the Frame: Lovecraft, Identity and the Haunting of Contemporary Culture 22 August 2026
H. P. Lovecraft died in 1937, before television became a mass medium, before nuclear weapons, before the computer, before humans saw Earth from space, before molecular genetics transformed ideas of…
- Lost Lovecraft: The Unfinished Fictions and the Literature That Might Have Been 22 August 2026
There is a temptation, when a writer dies comparatively young, to imagine a locked drawer. Inside it lies the unwritten masterpiece: the novel that would have completed the system, transformed…
- The Old Ones Will Never Go to Mars 16 August 2026
Bradbury, Frontier Capital and the Business of the Permanent Future Ray Bradbury’s “The Old Ones” lasts barely a page, yet it contains an entire theory of colonisation. By the time…
- The Intriguing Perspective 27 January 2024
Dr. Rebecca Masters is a highly educated and accomplished scientist known for her early contributions to the field of astrophysics. Born on October 15th, 1965, in a small town in…
- HAL: Bad Mother. 30 May 2023
HAL’s malfunction and the consequences of its actions can be seen as a betrayal or abandonment of its designated role as a reliable and trustworthy system.