Posts Tagged "journal"

Butterfly Effect

If we take for granted that the butterfly effect exists, how could we not expect that the drowning of migrants would affect the increasingly violent incidents in Western metropolises?

The Song of the Heirs

In Artificial Intelligence there is the notion of model distillation. Giannis Balabanidis's novel seems to fulfill its promise: the distillation of an era.

Whose Are You?

Stories and the joy of communal storytelling I learned from aunt Nika and the ever-changing visitors of the village coffeehouse.

RSS

Before doomscrolling was a thing, I remember the feeling of having to clean my RSS feed from unread items. My preferred way to absorb information is RSS.

Counting

We count by steps, cigarettes, fleeting glances, and sips of a drink late in the evening. We measure distance and estimate the future by numbers. As we count, we try to grasp our existence and contextualize ourselves within the world we inhabit.

Infrastructure

I'm obsessed with infrastructure. It's all those things that go unnoticed until something breaks, suddenly revealing their crucial existence. This includes everything from electrical grids and generators to water systems and data centers. For the past ten years, I've also worked in computer infrastructure, so I've witnessed firsthand the chain of events that unfolds when something fails.

Crafting Puzzles

I started typing with the familiar sounds of my eight-year-old son echoing from the next room. He was in full-blown playful mode, his mom not so gently trying to get him to brush his teeth.

Through the window

I used to view my apartment as a boundary, a place that defines the inside—a small, or not-so-small, internal space that separates me from the outside world. It was the place I loved to hate during the COVID period, yet also a space we reshaped in many ways to support a different way of living.