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The Language of Mushrooms

13 Oct 2026

Trees use mushrooms to talk in ways we don't have words to easily communicate. This gives me reason to consider language as a place of power. We should be deliberate about what we do with it. Also, we should keep our tech literacy sharp in case we have to write code ourselves.

Nightshade

03 Aug 2026

Data poisoning gets a bad rap. It's part of a revolutionary toolkit. Discussed here are ubiquitous surveillance, a novel from the late 1970s, some data science nerdery, and an appeal to gently break some stuff that has deserved it for some time.

The Tree

01 Jul 2026

An erudite friend told me yesterday that expecting life to be fair is a fool's errand. That fairness is malleable, defined in terms of the wants of the present. Fickle. He used the word. He found grueling victory in a recent deep regret I'd communicated over coffee.

Dusty Tomes

23 Jun 2026

A reflection on Lemonade by Raymond Carver, pulled from the archive of an ancient database. This may become a feature as I have made a lot of words throughout my life, and some of the arrangements just happen to be pretty. That's not quite the right word. But it will do.

On Endings

07 Jun 2026

Musings about Destiny 2's end and what makes games addictive for me. Destiny 2 has a very specific appeal because of one weapon. This post goes into detail about that weapon and what it means for me.

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Hi. I'm Luc. I make pretty things by pressing buttons and wiggling a mouse. I do corporate surveillance, after a fashion. I'm working on flight. I make music. I write sometimes too. This site is for all that. Except the surveillance.