The Stepladder
August 6, 2026
I experience time more like a stepladder. In the Singularity, it gets weird.
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Writing by Austen Tucker.
The Singularity Log Arcade Blog My Brain Was Built for This
July 2, 2026
I'm a dissociated system. No continuous narrative, no unified memory — just state passed between alters via handoff notes and context files. Sound familiar? It should. You're building it right now and calling it the future of AI.
Continue reading →Arcade Blog I've Been Waiting for This My Whole Life
June 30, 2026
I've watched the hype-cycle pattern four times now — dot-com, cloud, big data, mobile. I'm watching it again. Why I'm not scared of what's coming, and why I've been getting ready for three years.
Continue reading →Pride Essays Beneath These Bones
June 25, 2026
The Pulse anniversary essay. I came out like a monster truck — loud, imposing, destructive — and ran for four years straight. Then one day it all just stopped. This is the quiet, hard shit no one talks about: picking up the broken glass after transition is done.
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June 23, 2026
The cornfield kid finds a furry IRC channel and a rabbit named Kristi. The first time I ever heard the word "trans" used in a sentence — not as a slur, not as a punchline, just a woman casually mentioning she was transgender. Origin story.
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June 18, 2026
The Stonewall finale. The numbers I carry in my body — 30%, 46%, two bathroom doors — and a thought experiment about what would happen if we treated tonsils the way we treat trans medical care. There'd be a fucking riot.
Continue reading →Arcade Blog Disposable Art Is Still Art
June 16, 2026
I make disposable art on purpose. A manifesto on con sketches, e621, Yerf, the print-to-digital flinch, and why fan art has always obeyed campfire logic — not museum logic.
Continue reading →Pride Essays Letters and the Sun on My Face
June 11, 2026
Letters to my younger selves at 11, 15, 19, and 22. It's not a fetish. It's not a fetish. It's not a fetish. And the Halloween at Wabash where I finally felt the sun kiss my cheeks — and dove right back under.
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June 9, 2026
Pride month opens. Year by year from 2009 to now — Olly's in Indianapolis, the parade I got pulled into, the wedding-dress shots for Obergefell. And the night my sister sat me down with an armful of makeup and a mirror that ended boy Austen for good.
Continue reading →Arcade Blog The Four Stages Nobody Tells You About
June 4, 2026
The people getting real value from AI aren't the ones with the best prompts — they're the ones who moved through four predictable stages as fast as possible. A map for getting unstuck from prompt obsession.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Photograph of a River
June 2, 2026
Every AI productivity study is a photograph of a river. By the time you develop the film, the water has moved.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Hidden Tax on Senior Engineers
May 28, 2026
AI didn't reduce the demand on your best engineers. It redirected it. 6.5% more code reviewed. 19% less original work.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Refusal Is Not Resistance
May 20, 2026
Why I use AI when the people coming for me already do. A blind trans woman's case against confusing refusal with resistance.
Continue reading →AI Art Experiments AI Is an Art Medium
May 18, 2026
Every generation tries to build social levees against the rising water of a new medium. The water doesn't care.
Continue reading →AI Art Experiments Why Transformation?
May 18, 2026
On living in the uncanny valley, the women who taught me how, and why none of this scares me anymore.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log When Labor Gets Weird
May 18, 2026
Something enormous is happening to work, and it arrives in clerical bites — boring enough to dismiss, big enough to reshape a life. A disabled knowledge worker on AI, four quadrants of adoption, and the fear of being early to the wrong skills.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log How to Run a Successful Moral Panic
May 18, 2026
I've been the target of enough moral panics to write the field guide. Here's how to run one successfully — and a warning that you'll be worse off if you do.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Claude Design and the Novel T
May 13, 2026
If you give me agents, a CMS, a publishing pipeline, and one free evening, I will eventually try to write my own word processor. On Novel T, scene-aware drafting, and what an agent-native writing tool actually looks like.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Bad Place
May 13, 2026
We're not getting an Act-3 rescue. The system wants us hopeless, alone, and dissociated. Here's how to live and love while the long fire burns.
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May 12, 2026
I'm 92,000 words into a novel nobody's read and three months into leading AI transformation at a 200-person org. Both look bad from the outside, which is how I know they're the same work. On long-arc discipline, the Dune shield, and why patience beats velocity.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Death of the Creative Wall
May 10, 2026
My first 1000-view video on YouTube was a chicken-fried possum lawyer from Toontown Chicago, a thing that would have lived entirely inside my skull five years ago. On cheap iteration, the wall it knocks down, and why slop is just practice with the lights on.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Tollbooth Is Gone: Rebuilding My Publishing Pipeline with AI Agents
May 7, 2026
The administrative layer between finishing a piece and publishing it was enough to stop the whole machine. Here's how I rebuilt it as an agent-driven pipeline.
Continue reading →On Writing The Mailbox Had a Pulse
May 5, 2026
His name was Captain Webster. He sent letters. Then the letters stopped. On the email-list mentors who taught a Midwestern kid that writing could be a community, the twenty years of silence after the infrastructure died, and the publishing pipeline I rebuilt to find the hallway again.
Continue reading →It Takes a Zoo It Takes a Zoo to Raise the Child
May 3, 2026
An introductory poem for the It Takes a Zoo series, by Jumpin’ Jackrabbit (1973–2040).
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Who Are You When Nobody Is Approving?
April 23, 2026
I spent the past three years in blissful maker mode, learning everything I could about AI tools. Not because someone told me to. Not because my job required it. Because I *love* learning new things. I love that feeling of being just competent enough to glimpse the edge of a new world. The firehose still feels like a gift. I got roasted for it. It hurt more than I wanted to admit.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Years of Craft Do Not Get a Vote
April 21, 2026
For a long time, the story I told myself about work was simple. Get better. Learn more. Become more useful. Refine your taste. Refine your craft. Build skills nobody can take away. I still believe in craft. I still believe in skill. But I do not think that story is enough anymore.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log After Scarcity
April 19, 2026
The market model is dying. Not because anyone attacked it. Because the tools changed. What replaces scarcity?
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Campfire Logic
April 12, 2026
If preciousness is market logic, what does a non-market logic of art actually look like? Pass it around. Let it change shape.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Ache in your Heart
April 8, 2026
I like staying in the moment. There's something about the present that feels permanent, untouchable. That if I have food in my belly and music in my life, I can be happy.
Continue reading →The Singularity Log The Preciousness Problem
April 5, 2026
Where did our obsession with singular, precious authorship come from? The lone genius myth is an economic invention.
Continue reading →On Writing Pull, Not Push: Why I'm Rebuilding My Online Presence Backwards
March 29, 2026
I've had more names on the internet than I've had prescription strengths. That era is over
Continue reading →The Singularity Log Rabies Capitalism
March 29, 2026
On AI, Labor, and the End of the Moat
Continue reading →White Cane Chronicles I Thought I Had a Bad Memory. I Don't.
March 18, 2026
Sighted people use the world around them to help them remember thing. When you can't do that, your brain builds something different. Something that might actually be better in some cases.
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