Existential Dread

AI Isn’t Replacing Top Musicians. It’s Erasing Everyone Else.

The democratization of local AI music models like YuE2 isn’t creating a utopia of creativity; it’s shifting music from human expression to on-demand utility. By flooding the market with ‘good enough’ background audio, AI is eliminating the middle-class composer and turning human-made music into an expensive luxury good.

Saturn’s 10-Sided Anomaly Isn’t a Monolith. It’s a Mirror.

When astronomers spotted a 10-sided structure on Saturn, the internet didn’t debate physicsโ€”they joked about escaping Earth’s economy. We are using cosmic anomalies as a vocabulary for our own existential and economic dread, ignoring the terrifying reality that we showed up billions of years too late to the universe’s party.