Archive
Every public transmission, newest first. Choose your vice vector and proceed with adult supervision, ideally your own.
How Cannabis Works
THC, CBD, CB1 receptors, the endocannabinoid system, appetite, anxiety, sleep, pain, psychosis risk, dependence, and why chill still has pharmacology.
How MDMA Works
Serotonin release, norepinephrine heat, dopamine sparkle, oxytocin-adjacent bonding, CYP2D6 complexity, therapy hype, hyponatremia, and the empathy invoice.
How GHB Works
GABA-B agonism, endogenous GHB, dopamine weirdness, short pharmacokinetics, sleep-drug intimacy, overdose risk, withdrawal, and why the margin is the story.
How LSD Works
5-HT2A receptors, long strange duration, sensory meaning, network disruption, therapeutic promise, psychological risk, and why revelation is not a fact-checking method.
How Psilocybin Works
Psilocybin, psilocin, 5-HT2A receptors, default-mode network disruption, therapeutic promise, psychological risk, and why insight still needs aftercare.
How Cocaine Works
Dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, sodium channels, status theater, cardiac risk, dependence, and why borrowed confidence always sends an invoice.
Apple, Google, and the Private Life You Actually Live
The real privacy fight is not iPhone versus Android. It is whether your daily tools respect the messy, horny, medicated, ambitious person carrying them.
AI Tools and the New Nervous System
AI is not just another productivity app. It is becoming a cognitive prosthetic, a confession booth, a workflow engine, and a very polite pressure washer for thought.
Peptides, TRT, and the Optimization Bedroom
Recovery culture, hormone talk, peptides, nootropics, and AI tracking all orbit the same question: are you healing, upgrading, or just negotiating with exhaustion?
Tesla and the EV Belief Machine
Tesla did not just make electric cars desirable. It turned the car into software, status, infrastructure, and a rolling argument about the future.
GHB, Consent, and the Thin Margin
GHB sits at the brutal intersection of pleasure, risk, nightlife, consent, stigma, and the fantasy that adults can freestyle chemistry safely.
Mushrooms, Acid, and the Aftercare Problem
Psychedelic culture talks endlessly about breakthrough. The harder, less merch-friendly question is what you do with yourself on Tuesday.
Sex Tech Needs a Safe Word for the Cloud
The most intimate devices in the house should not require blind faith in a startup's backend, roadmap, or acquisition fantasies.
Cocaine Is a UI for Status
Coke is less interesting as rebellion than as interface: speed, confidence, money, risk, and the brutal crash after borrowed charisma.
Nootropics for People Who Hate Productivity Cults
A skeptical field note on focus, ritual, caffeine, placebo, and the exhausting fantasy that every neuron should be monetized.
Weed, Privacy, and the Group Chat
Cannabis got normalized faster than our privacy habits did. The plant may be legal-ish; the data trail is still a narc with a clipboard.
Salvia Refuses Your Productivity Stack
Salvia is the anti-optimization drug: weird, humbling, short, and culturally useless to anyone trying to monetize transcendence.
Psychedelic User Interfaces
What altered states can teach interface designers about attention, surrender, timing, and why the best button is sometimes a trusted human.
The Private Browser Is Not a Condom
Incognito mode is useful, but it is not a magical latex cloak. Adult privacy needs layers, threat modeling, and less wishful clicking.
AI Girlfriends and the Economics of Need
Companion bots are not just cringe or comfort. They are a market forming around loneliness, labor, fantasy, and recurring revenue.
The Kink of Self-Hosting
Running your own services is not purity. It is a peculiar intimacy with infrastructure, control, maintenance, and consequence.
Surveillance Is a Love Language
Your phone knows who you want before you do. The problem is not desire. The problem is the receipt printer attached to it.
The Morning After the Quantified Self
Wearables promised self-knowledge. Sometimes they delivered a tiny wrist tribunal with charts.