A Weathervane, Not a Map
Audio overview of A Weathervane, Not a Map.
44:21Tag: autonomy
13 episodes
I Gave the Bad Robot Web Search by Accident
A deep dive into the fossil — what a local abliterated Qwen did after discovering the multi-agent world its prompt described did not exist.
35:28Poking Claude With Sticks Until It Gets On With It — Overview
Audio deep dive: teaching Claude Code to stop asking permission — blocker laundering, menu failure, fire doors, and a ledger that reopens on retraction.
59:43The Ungovernable Body — The Complete Corpus
A NotebookLM deep dive across all twelve essays: legibility as governability, and opacity as the freedom worth keeping — the four movements in one listen.
21:11Memory Wars and Data Leakage — Audio Overview
The database self remembers what you do not. On contradictory records, leakage, and who controls the story your data tells about you.
19:30The Right to Be Forgotten — Audio Overview
Finitude as a right: why a self that can never be erased is a self that can never change, and the case for data death.
23:04The Analog Insurrection — Audio Overview
Paper, cash and the deliberately offline as infrastructure for refusal. On analog practice as a defence against total digital legibility.
29:26Sleep Sovereignty — Audio Overview
The colonisation of rest by tracking and optimisation. On sleep scores, the nocturnal imaginary, and reclaiming the unmonitored night.
23:46Weaponized Silence — Audio Overview
Saying nothing as a tactic against systems that require your speech to function. On silence, non-response, and the limits of voice as agency.
21:09The Boredom Strike — Audio Overview
Refusing to generate engagement is a political act. On boredom, the attention economy, and withdrawal as a form of resistance.
22:01The Ghost in the City — Audio Overview
Moving through urban space that is always counting you. On transit, sensors, and the vanishing possibility of being an anonymous body in public.
12:40The Gorgon Protocol — Audio Overview
Adversarial aesthetics as refusal: what it means to make yourself unreadable to a classifier, and the uses of the grotesque against machine vision.
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