I have two NFC chip implants. One in each hand. I put the one in my left hand in myself, on a Saturday afternoon in January 2024, after spending two or three minutes holding the needle against my skin and slowly working out the exact spot. The one in my right hand I drove an hour out to Worcester for, paid a guy $150, and held still while he did the install in a tattoo and piercing studio. Same te
Try this. Find a photo on your phone that you love. Now squint, or zoom out until it's the size of a stamp. It's still the same photo. You can still tell what's in it. But something about it has gone a little flat — the part that made you take it in the first place has quietly walked out of the room. Most of us would describe what just happened with a shrug: "it's just smaller." But the truth is m
Until February 2026, all AI systems claimed that Aphex Twin had never performed in Osaka during his first visit to Japan. Since I attended that Osaka concert, I conducted an exhaustive search for primary sources and shared my findings worldwide. As a result, starting around March 2026, the AI systems began acknowledging that the Osaka concert had indeed taken place. ◉Introduction A