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some goals and values for LUDDENITES

LUDDENITES is a sociotechnical co-op organization that I hope to start this year. While I've written a prior blog post giving a very high-level overview of the organization, a lot of details remain vague and abstract. I want to think through some of these here, with the caveat

Thinking through LUDDENITES

LUDDENITES is envisioned as a worker cooperative organization that develops alternatives to existing tech services, platforms, and infrastructures. Whereas there has been plentiful critical research that has called for the abolition, dismantling, refusal, or outright destruction of specific technologies (including carceral tech, surveillance tech, and generative AI just to name

Introducing Luddenites

Playing off both LUDENS and LUDDITES, LUDDENITES is envisioned as a collective whose goal is to counter oppressive technologies like surveillance tech and generative AI, instead seeking communal infrastructures in service of CONSENTFUL PLAY and CREATIVE JOY.

running a blog like a blog

I've been stressing myself out too much by wanting every post here to be "official" in some sense (like, they're really not), and it's been preventing me from actually just writing. I haven't sat down to write in about a

travel reflections (may 8, 2025)

For whatever reason, it feels like folks often write reflections when they return from traveling. Admittedly, far too many thoughts swirl around my mind whenever I leave the country, and I'm constantly longing to write them down as well... but I never seem to actually do it. It&

a sleepless thought on blue prince

This post contains spoilers for Blue Prince. I'm writing this post after pulling an all-nighter playing Blue Prince with my friend Patrick, so the writing is going to be rough. We got through a solid portion of the game this past night, but frustrations with the game began

a new term (january 19, 2025)

This week I don't have a substantive blog post, mainly since all of my writing energies are focused on trying to revise a paper for publication. I can see a pathway for it to be accepted, but the paper itself needs quite a bit of work to get

one week (january 13, 2025)

Periodically, I make journal posts on my blog. This is one of them.

A rare post about boba

Today I went to try Molly Tea, another boba shop that's recently opened up in the Bay Area. I had a ton of thoughts™️ about the drink, so much so that I realized I had an mini existential crisis about boba and needed to write a blog post about it?

routine thoughts (sep 15, 2024)

Location: Socotra Coffee, Ann Arbor, Michigan Temperature: 85 degrees Fahrenheit even though it's mid-September Health: Better than earlier this year, but worse than when I was back in the Bay I haven't journaled quite some time. I've been busy traveling, writing, going to conferences,

a lot has happened (14 july 2024)

I don't know where to begin. There's so much I still need to process regarding graduate school, academia in general, the conferences I've been going to, interpersonal things, my health, and my plans for the future. I don't think I have a

end of twitter era

I RT'ed a few things about Rafah and finally got hit with the lock I've been shadowbanned for months now, where my tweets would be artificially surpressed and my account would no longer show up in search, but it looks like this was the final straw

Jan 22: scattered thoughts

I've been meaning to write about certain things, but have been struggling with my attention span, energy, and time over the past few weeks. I have a much longer post about mental health I want to write at some point, but other than that, here are some thoughts

Jan 11: some thoughts before I forget them

Just some passing thoughts from this week: * I feel like there's been a shift at some point where we have become backwards-thinking instead of forwards-thinking in terms of all things technology. This relates not only to the technology itself, where we see the usage of generative AI models

Jan 2024: What I'm Thinking About

I want to write more (on here) this year, so I'm going to try to create some structure by posting a "What I'm Thinking About" post at the start of each month. I don't suspect I'll have entirely new ideas

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I told myself I'd start writing more on here, and a whole week has passed already? Where did this week even go... I have so many thoughts about this past month and year, but I can't seem to put anything to words. It's just.

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my ghost blog keeps thinking that my credit card is invalid, so it keeps giving me a warning saying that this blog will be deleted soon, and i'm just too tired to deal with it (i will probably need to just email or call them to get this

maybe i'll write here again?

i'm still not sure; it feels like it's been tremendously difficult to focus on writing anything lately, but i really want to write. the current layout of this blog doesn't feel very conducive to writing, and the short-form posts i like to make might

writing focus woes

Here's something ridiculous – I feel like I can only write on Twitter. like, I just can't keep my concentration when I write on a Google Doc or long-form blog (like here). I simply lose focus and feel like I'm writing too much and get

back to ghost

I haven't written a post here in a long time, and my Ghost blog hasn't even been customized in a way that I like it to be. And yet, I don't know where else to go. I don't want to write a

[journaling] may 8, 2023

I haven't posted on here in a while. I feel like I want to, or maybe I feel like I should. I can't tell the difference. Today's one of those particularly tough days, and I just saw graphic photos of the Asian family murdered

Public blog woes

There's a big drawback with trying to use a blog to journal, because I can't be as upfront with things that I want to talk about. I would love to talk about how my PhD program is going and all the various difficulties (and joys?) that

Struggling to Note Things Down

I don't really have much to say today other than the fact that I've been struggling to figure out where to track my notes. For whatever reason, Evernote and Notion both feel wrong to me for some reason. Maybe I just need to buckle down and

AI as Collaborative Tool, Not Replacement

Thinking aloud and putting words on the page in terms of AI as a collaborative tool, not a replacement, mainly in the space of self-driving cars.

Anime Recommendation: Vampire in the Garden

Queer vampire anime alert!! With primarily women characters, no fanservice, and an easily bingeable 5 episodes.

CA Primary Leftist Voter Guides (June 7, 2022)

A compilation of Progressive or Leftist Voter Guide endorsements for the June 7, 2022 CA primary.

Inclusive Math: A Classic Bayes Theorem Example

With all the talk about banning math textbooks lately, I've been thinking again about exclusivity that still exists in math examples.

[P] Project Ideas & New Visual Language for AI

Reflecting on project ideas that never went anywhere, and one project idea that others have picked up.

[P] Thinking About My Field of Study

Joyful Things: The LG Second Screen

Revisiting a neat little tech thing that brought me joy: the LG V10 and V20's second screen.

iPad Air 5: First Ten Minutes

My thoughts on the iPad Air 5 after ten minutes with it. My last iPad was the 2011 iPad 2.

Dropping Projects

[P] Phone Typing

Anime Reviews (April 2022)

Reviews of JJK S1, My Dress-Up Darling S1, JJK0, Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie S1E1, and Spy x Family S1E1!

On Writing Length

Getting myself to write without being stressed over the idea of needing to write too much.

[P] Journaling (2022-4-8)

Elden Ring Review (Draft)

A thought-vomit draft-version review of Elden Ring, my first Souls-like game, now that I've 100%'ed it. Light spoilers ahead.

[P] Journaling (2022-3-22)

Struggling with a car break-in, life after 2019, and the future.

[M] My Dress-Up Darling Episode 1 Thoughts (Abridged)

Immediate thoughts on the first episode of My Dress-Up Darling without knowing anything else about the show and before seeing more of it.

Quality and Consequence

I'm going to take my time and focus on quality productions. There are consequences to everything that we put out. Effects to our causes. We shouldn't take that lightly.

[P] Daily Entry 2021-12-22

Thoughts on writing (again) and booster shot.

[P] A Short Memory #2

A short memory about packaging.

[P] A Short Memory

A short memory about my first time reading a philosophy book.