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2026 51

  1. Reciprocity
  2. pedestrian
  3. A Softer World comics that make my inner 14 year old go AWOO
  4. Is [insert community] toxic?
  5. Parallels
  6. AI Safety Acculturation is Neglected
  7. Notes on Private Trackers
  8. rat wknd 26
  9. Notes on Paying Attention
  10. 🤖
  11. skill issue
  12. today's brew
  13. I Drink Soylent So My Broccoli Can Whore Out 🥦
  14. smolstice
  15. just choose to not see it
  16. tiny tea :)
  17. Festival
  18. I'm less frivolous than her I sware
  19. festival season 2026
  20. oopsies!
  21. New post
  22. that old grand music
  23. The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog
  24. sorry claude
  25. on the train
  26. Power, Agency, and Subjectification
  27. Hhh
  28. Huagh
  29. Notes on Patronage
  30. Some Imaginary Torontos
  31. cursed knowledge
  32. Scale
  33. Unusually Good Posts from Inkhaven 2
  34. Metatextual Literacy
  35. two new pages
  36. Notes on Beautiful Nonfiction
  37. Opinionated Advice on Doing Inkhaven Good
  38. writing for the llms is genuinely very good
  39. Mahalo, Kailua-Kona
  40. it begins
  41. National Gallery of Art, West Building, Washington D.C.
  42. Yum
  43. Did Indigenous People Really Live In Harmony With the Land?
  44. historical fooms
  45. [Dialogue] Cultivating Gardens
  46. Donations, The Fifth Year
  47. Mom's Advice For Hosting A Class Reunion
  48. understanding
  49. Five Theses on AI Art
  50. Culture Isn't Stagnating, You Guys Are Just Old
  51. In My Misanthropy Era

2025 56

  1. on that city on the hill
  2. On Canada
  3. current stack
  4. writing post-inkhaven
  5. Opinionated Takes on Rationality Meetups Organizing
  6. the pillow book
  7. tea today
  8. comedown
  9. writing for the llms
  10. inkhaven photodiary
  11. turning emails on
  12. Shoes of Lighthaven: A Photo-Investigation
  13. Intellectual Work I Can and Can't Do With LLMs
  14. Montaigne's Epistemology
  15. Brown Fields, Mausoleums
  16. Green Fields, New Games
  17. Meet Your Heroes
  18. dissolution
  19. after my dad died, we found the love letters
  20. Contra Contra Rich Friend, Poor Friend
  21. I Became the Rich Friend
  22. a nice hang
  23. Notes on International Klein Blue
  24. Social Dynamics at Arm's Length
  25. The Best Song of Each Year, 2000-2025, According to Inkhaven
  26. my favourite work of fanfiction
  27. the asian zoomers aren't like me
  28. Shoes
  29. my dad could still be alive, but he's not.
  30. Canada Lost Its Measles Elimination Status Because We Don't Have Enough Nurses Who Speak Low German
  31. not quite analogue
  32. less social engineering and more actual engineering for this fertility crisis, please
  33. one perfect day
  34. are LLMs automatically good at poetry yet?
  35. postrationality annotated bibliography
  36. prompt caching yay
  37. good AI art
  38. tea notebook!
  39. i preordered the book
  40. yells at clouds etc
  41. probing
  42. feeling racy
  43. attn: rss enjoyers
  44. simethicone my beloved
  45. a rly cool piece of art at the aga khan museum
  46. suppressing geniuses
  47. thank u naomi
  48. swimming rightward
  49. girltalk-maxxing in the cult compound
  50. misogyny in the western canon
  51. Slouching towards consciousness
  52. Interesting ACX 2024 Book Review Entries
  53. The Waterloo <>Toronto Facebook Carpool Scene, 2015-2020
  54. Good Manners by the numbers
  55. Yukon Text Posts
  56. Youth (2017)

2024 9

  1. After dinner
  2. A Few Prompts I Use to Test LLM Creativity
  3. The Neruda Factory
  4. Video Games I Like
  5. Unitary Advantage Windows: Scale, Schelling Points, and City Size
  6. My Apartment Art Commission Process
  7. How Strong is Your Monkey Brain?
  8. The Good Balsamic Vinegar
  9. What We Did When We Gave Up Horses For Cars

2023 6

  1. Donations, The Third Year
  2. Remembering Stephanie Ye-Mowe
  3. KW Rationality Report - Summer 2023
  4. 5k postscript
  5. Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities
  6. Beauty from Evil

2022 9

  1. Lumenators: They're Really Good
  2. Moodboard: The Worm
  3. Obligate Dramatic Irony
  4. Rich Friend, Poor Friend
  5. Book Review: My Town
  6. Modern Art Museums
  7. high on acid
  8. Donations, The First Year
  9. Ways a phone is like a dæmon

2021 2

  1. FAS and Fertility Discourse
  2. We can only go forwards

2020 5

  1. Links Retrospective, May - June 2020
  2. Links Retrospective, March - April 2020
  3. Links Retrospective, January - February 2020
  4. Now, Less Than Ever
  5. Links Retrospective - Rest of 2019

2019 9

  1. Notes from the Salon: Social Class
  2. book review: teardown
  3. Articles of Interest, June-July 2019
  4. Books for Autistic People
  5. Articles of Interest, April-May 2019
  6. Articles of Interest, February-March 2019
  7. The Car Ride Home
  8. Articles of Interest, December 2018-January 2019
  9. 1.5 generation immigrant

2018 11

  1. Almost no one is complicit, almost everything is evil
  2. Articles of Interest, October-November 2018
  3. Challenges facing Violence Against Women Shelters in Ottawa
  4. De-Commodifying Housing for Fun (and Zero Profit)
  5. Articles of Interest, September 2018
  6. Almost no one is evil, almost everything is broken.
  7. Articles of Interest, August 2018
  8. Articles of Interest, July 2018
  9. paper towels vs dish towels
  10. Dear me from the past,
  11. Review: Time Will Run Back

2017 3

  1. Canada’s Broken Prison System
  2. Ontario’s Solar Energy
  3. On Toronto Police at Pride

2016 3

  1. Coming of Age Rituals
  2. On Incredibly Botched Cost-Benefit Calculations
  3. The Turing Test

2015 3

  1. On Ethnoburbia
  2. On going off to uni.
  3. Future History

2014 1

  1. sleepwalking

2013 1

  1. Two Years