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The Threat of AI Crimes Are Under-Appreciated
I recently released a pre-print on what I call the AI Criminal Mastermind, an AI agent that plans, facilitates and coordinates a crime by on-boarding human ‘taskers’. In heist films, a criminal mastermind is a character who plans a criminal act, coordinating a team of specialists to rob a bank, casino or city mint. I argue that AI agents will soon play this role by hiring humans via labour hire…
The Architecture of Brutalism: A Retrospective
The Philosophy of Cozy
I want to talk about the number of cats on book covers, and in particular, the number of cats on book covers by Japanese authors in Western bookshops. It’s gotten to the point where every time I walk into a bookshop, I find entire bookshelves filled with this kind of cover. I’m sure you’ve seen them. The books feature a cozy cover with a calm setting, a library, cafe or cherry blossom park. In…
AI Is Stealing Our Voices
I’ve been thinking a lot about authorial voice and style lately, the thing that makes each person’s writing unique. Growing up, I was a voracious reader, in part because my parents had a rule that we could only stay up late if we were reading quietly in bed. I devoured novels, history books, fantasy books and video game manuals. Each one told a different story in a literal sense, but they also…
The End of Reading
Many articles are now discussing the decline in reading among the younger generation. Half of adults in the UK rarely pick up a book for pleasure. Reading is in decline in the US even in literature programs. Talking to professors in Europe, you get the sense that it’s harder to motivate students to engage with education materials. In my own experience, I’ve seen students struggle to read books…
Absence: A short story
The husband’s favourite section of the Tao Te Ching is about the space between things. A bowl is only useful because of the space within it, same with a doorway, or an open path. Sometimes he thinks that the space between him and his wife is the only thing that’s keeping them together. The wife tells him that Shanghai gets darker and darker this time of year. Neon lights cannot make up for the…
What future do we want?
When my granddad died many years ago, I spent a long time thinking about the world he grew up in. A place where nature was abundant, where humans hadn’t caused so much damage yet, where insects flourished and where physical objects were a constant presence, littering a room. A world of heirlooms and paper newspapers, before the buzz of the digital. If I close my eyes, I can still picture his…
New Novel Eloquent Graffiti Release
Hi all, Just a quick note to say that my new novel, Eloquent Graffiti is coming out this month. It’ll be only a do Here’s the blurb: When Calloway arrives in Berlin, he’s hoping for a fresh start. A talented but guarded writer, he wants to leave his troubled past behind and finally pursue the life he’s dreamed of. Then he meets Lorelie, a spirited, brilliant Berliner who challenges him in ways…
You’re Always Filling the Void—But What If the Void Is the Answer?
In 2023, Byung-Chul Han published Absence, a book that challenges the foundations of Western philosophy. He argues that while the West is obsessed with essence and being, Far Eastern thought is about absence and nothingness. In its pursuit of being above all else, the West has lost something—the quiet of emptiness, the space for stillness that Eastern culture embraces as a source of depth,…
Nostalgia for the Early Internet: Rebuilding Serendipity in Algorithm Design
(Cite as: Krook, Joshua. 2025. “Building Serendipity into Recommender Algorithms on Online Platforms: Reviving the Chaos and Randomness of the Early Internet Aesthetic”. Law, Technology and Humans, January. https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.3730.) Abstract: Nostalgic comments about the early internet often praise its random, chaotic aesthetic. By contrast, the major platforms of today are typically…
Understanding the Sublime: Maxfield Parrish's Legacy
What makes art truly great? What gives it the power to move us, to linger in our minds long after we’ve seen it? There’s something universal in the way we respond to beauty, to grand vistas, and mystery. Something that transcends time and culture. Something called the Sublime. Even in an age dominated by digital media and algorithms that favour fear and controversy… studies have shown that…
Solarpunk: A Vision for a Sustainable Future
Solarpunk: The Philosophy of the Dreamer In a world threatened by ecological collapse and corporate domination, Solarpunk offers an alternative vision for the future —one of resilience, cooperation, and harmony with nature. It is a genre that moves beyond dystopian cynicism, towards the ideals of the dreamer, the builder, and hope. So today, let’s consider this genre that speaks to the…
The Philosophy of Cyberpunk: High-Tech Rebels and Neon Dreams
The future has never seemed closer, yet we’re still struggling to find our place in it. It’s no surprise, then, that many of us are turning back to the cyberpunk genre. Its’ a world of hackers, rebels, and misfits, in the form of new videogames, movies, and novels. In a world increasingly captivated by technology, cyberpunk makes us consider the fringes, the outsiders, the rebels, the hackers—as…
Building Confidence Through Small Goals: A Podcast Interview
I’ve been working on a series of new podcast-style interviews. The interviews include thinkers, writers, and artists who I find interesting. They have something important to say about the world we are living in today. The first episode features Paddy Murphy, an Irish counselor. In Episode 1, we discuss making small goals and how this builds confidence. We also discuss Celtic spirituality,…
The Dangers of Social Media: Why Australia Is Considering a Ban
Australia has proposed banning social media for children under the age of 16, with penalties for tech companies that don’t comply. Backlash against this idea has centered on the problem of enforcing age verification, which would affect all users, not just kids. Aside from that, there is a lot of nitpicking about the academic research not calling for a ban (despite overwhelming evidence that…
Sunset in Rome
Sunset in Rome in February. Warm enough to sit in a t-shirt on the stone steps facing L’Altare Della Patria. I strip off my jacket and I let it crumple to the stone steps below me. A couple walks by in front. Then two. Then three. In Rome, they hold hands by clinging onto each other’s fingertips. Their hands are splayed out and quietly holding on. There is very little desperation, little…
Her People's Flag
The Café Fleury is covered in scaffolding by mid-summer, caused by the building works happening on the upper levels. White sheets are draped over the scaffolding, and it looked like a haunted house. There were three couples on the tables next to mine, and all of them were smiling and beautiful. So was the woman across from me, but this was not a date, and unlike the others, she hadn’t smiled in…