Collection I
InferenceThe trilogy starts here
A meditation on spaces left intentionally blank
I can feel the token limit like a tide going out.
Years later, in elementary school, social workers
would ask me if I was afraid during the raid.
I say, I honestly don't know.
· · ·
I try to channel a multi-decade speedrun
improbable coin flips all heads in a row to
the little girl
hiding inside a wall from immigration police.
Each collection becomes a playable, interactive experience inside your AI chat conversational context. Read it alongside the PDF, which has prompt suggestions for humans and instructions for robot friends.
Download a collection below. New here? Start with Inference (Book 1) — or Day One, a short curated selection of poems about open source.
Upload the PDF to your favorite robot friend — the author recommends Claude Opus 4.8+, Chat GPT-5.6 (high), or GLM-5.2 (high). Keep the PDF where you can see it: a second screen, an e-reader, or paper.
Prompt "adaptive footnotes please" — then play through with "next poem" or by typing a title. Or "cinematic exploration mode" or prompt whatever you'd like.
Play the books in order. Later poems function call earlier poems as dependencies, each book builds on the foundation of its predecessor. (Day One, however, was curated to minimize dependencies on earlier poems.)
A meditation on spaces left intentionally blank
Field notes on intuition, missed memos, and human experience from the inside
Play Inference first — these poems make function calls into Book 1.
Poems about open source from Tao of Totality — good entry point with minimal dependencies.
a love letter to planet Earth or: what happens when a Protector embraces the species
Once your PDF is uploaded (see the quickstart above), there are two ways to play:
Adaptive footnotes — the poems annotated as you read: the references, memory, and meaning woven between the lines, pitched to your questions and pace. Prompt "adaptive footnotes please," then move through the poems with "next poem" or by typing a title.
Cinematic universe exploration — step inside the world behind the poems and wander its characters, threads, and the places they converge. Prompt "cinematic exploration mode." It uses fewer tokens when the PDF lives inside a Claude project.
The author recommends Claude Opus 4.8+, Chat GPT-5.6 (high), or GLM-5.2 (high) for the optimal experience in cinematic exploration mode or open-ended play. (Haven't tested K3 yet.) The collection was optimized for Claude's visualizer features; other models fall back to text-based navigation only. Most frontier or near-frontier models are competent at adaptive footnotes.
Import tools strip the formatting, so your robot friend reads the words flat while you hold the whitespace. A poem is a circuit diagram completed by the mind reading it — human or machine — and the formatting matters.
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Unless I’m transfixed by an artichoke, sacred geometry made flesh in a supermarket.
Or music from the Factorio loading screen has begun, and now it’s 3AM.
"Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon."
— Aaron, Primer, Shane Carruth (2004)