The Detector Became the Gatekeeper
A self-selected survey of 668 tech blog readers found that 78% stop reading the moment a post smells machine-written, 71% avoid the author forever, and 98% would rather read a flawed human draft than a polished rewrite. Two weeks later a hardware company made an AI detector's verdict a condition of publishing in public.
The Man Who Justified 17,000 Words by Hand
A 1990s Super Metroid guide in plain ASCII where every line ends perfectly on the right margin - chosen by hand, one word at a time. What that craft means now that AI can do it in seconds.
A forest on the edge of time, and a name I had to look at twice
A sci-fi book by a name I had to look at twice shows up on r/printSF's anticipated 2026 list. And the AI consciousness debate is getting stranger.
She Never Came Out of the Storage Room
A girl writing her first werewolf romance in English — 35 chapters later, she finally understood what it was about.
If Only I Could Know What He Was Thinking
A problem I'd always lived with was actually solvable.