I know, I know… A website in 2026? It seems futile – useless.

I haven’t utilized this domain in years, despite intending to rebuild it purely as a directory of where to find my creative endeavors elsewhere on the Internet. That task got put off over and over, and eventually life got in the way of creativity for a while rendering such a directory useless.

There’s a deeper issue that kept pushing that task to the side for years. There’s an inherently futile, drowning sensation to late-stage Web2.0 – numbing us with algorithms, dead-Internet bots, and regurgitated meme slop being passed back and forth in some bizarre allofeeding ritual that makes people feel like they’re actually creating something.

The numbness leaves those of us that grew up in the salad days of the Internet feeling foolish for our nostalgia, but bitter all the same. It was harder to stay connected to people 26 years ago. You had to work for it. Now we have 24 hour access to the rest of the world, but we’re more disconnected than ever. How can you expect society to be good at communication when most of our group chats with people we’re friends with in real life are literally just resharing memes and videos. In the 2020’s, human connection almost seems interchangeable, or even worse, disposable to people.

This is where you can insert the “nostalgia is a hell of a drug” quote so we can meet our quota for regurgitory feeding, lest we starve. That sentiment is key though, because that seems to be what the tech bros want us to focus on – that nostalgia is a foolish hindrance to progress, so shut up and adapt or you’re not invited to the generative AI NFT enthusiast key party, sponsored by FanDuel and Palantir.

The futility is the point.

It’s the whole strategy. Social media has played a long game in conditioning futility, and we all kind of shrugged and followed along the whole time. Now we’re left with this mess, where we live under the false impression that the only valid way left to reach people is through the means of communication we’ve been shoved towards. Maybe that’s true at this point. The thing is, I don’t see any good coming of listening when corporations dictate what means of communication are valid. Especially when, best case scenario: those networks are a ploy to create an infinite feedback loop of revenue by offering literally nothing and tricking the consumers to make the entire product for free, and worst case scenario: those networks are tools to steer public opinion, emotion, and discourse.

(Spoiler: it’s both)

The problem with viewing social media as a method of communication is that it’s an illusion. Whatever you have to say, whatever art you made, the announcement of your new zine, your band’s show this Friday, the photos of your new puppy – it all gets buried in favor of sponsored videos and suggested posts from inflammatory accounts you would never follow. So if I’m going to say something and no one’s going to see it, I’d rather say it somewhere where I’m not feeding the machine. Am I still paying a huge tech company to host this? Sure. But you get what I mean.

And that whole idea of progress? I’m a big fan of progress, but silicon valley’s progress, at this point, is a dog and pony show we’ve been held at gunpoint to watch and acquiesce to. I like the kind of progress that liberates all people, feeds the hungry, and cures cancer. Automated plagiarism machines taking jobs away from artists so we have more people looking for jobs that don’t exist so they can pay for slop. That doesn’t read as progress to me.I think we can continue to communicate, progress, and leave a mark in the world on our own terms. That progress may be a little smaller or quieter, and it may be entirely internal, but that’s okay. At a point in history where we misattrubute success to a flash in the pan viral moment where millions will see us, it’s important to remember that progress, communication, and success happened on such a smaller scale for a millennia prior to this.

I think we can continue to communicate, progress, and leave a mark in the world on our own terms. That progress may be a little smaller or quieter, and it may be entirely internal, but that’s okay. At a point in history where we misattrubute success to a flash in the pan viral moment where millions will see us, it’s important to remember that progress, communication, and success happened on such a smaller scale for a millennia prior to this.So I guess that’s the reason I made a new website in 2026. Is it always going to be full of angry Luddite manifestos and “old man shaking his fist” rants?

So I guess that’s the reason I made a new website in 2026. Is it always going to be full of angry Luddite manifestos and “old man shaking his fist” rants?Nah… Probably not. It’s probably going to be a lot of art and music talk. But the rants aren’t off the table.

Nah… Probably not. It’s probably going to be a lot of art and music talk. But the rants aren’t off the table.

“Science, the new nobility! Progress. The world moves!… And why shouldn’t it?
We have visions of numbers. We are moving toward the Spirit. What I say is oracular and absolutely right. I understand, and since I cannot express myself except in pagan terms, I would rather keep quiet.”
– Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell – “Bad Blood”