The Horrifyingly Perfect Way AI Complements our World

We're losing the war before it's begun. How AI fits just nice into late-capitalism, and why that's absolutely terrifying.

Apr 10 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

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February 2025

Optimised to Imperfection

Why can't I just play the video game? A foray into losing sight of the fun, one hyper-optimised spreadsheet at a time.

Feb 7 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

January 2025

Caught in 2024's Glow

A scattered recap of the things that had me captured in their glow.

Jan 9 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

November 2024

The Masculine Urge to Stay Up and Watch Football

How staying up late as a kid led to me getting possessed by a spirit… of sorts.

Nov 8, 2024 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

October 2024

'Brat and it's completely different but also still brat' is Completely Different, but Still Brat

Now that's what I call a remix album.

Oct 12, 2024 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

September 2024

Diagnosis, Identity Renegotiation, and How TikTok Made Things Both Better and Worse

Why it took me so damn long, and why I'm still not sold on the idea of TikTok as a mental health support group.

Sep 15, 2024 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

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August 2024

Alien: Romulus and the Shackles of the Past

Great movie, difficult question: how do we move forward when we only want to look back?

Aug 18, 2024 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

July 2024

The Bear S3 and Charli xcx's BRAT are locked in

Where I recommend the latest season of The Bear, which is oddly divisive, and Charli xcx's 'BRAT', which turned the whole world the most garish green.

Jul 8, 2024 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

June 2024

I Saw Myself in the TV's Glow

or: why queer kids find themselves unhealthily obsessed with TV shows.

Jun 30, 2024 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

January 2024

Check Your Letter Box(d): Saltburn, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Holdovers

The two films I ended 2023 with, and the one I started 2024 with.

Jan 8, 2024 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

December 2023

fuck the algorithm

I need more humans to tell me what to listen to. The robots will NOT win.

Dec 31, 2023 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

July 2023

The Dread of Making and Unmaking

We live in a snowglobe.

Jul 30, 2023 • 

Mikhail Hanafi

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