hey i'm winston. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. i work as a technical product manager.
Recent posts
Poem: time to kill god again
i used to believe it was required of me / to look every horror in its face
I Am Once Again Sitting by a River
a poem
Feral Tech
I think the shitty pedagogy and false assumptions that underly the LLM boosters' beliefs about how human knowledge operates will have similar risk profiles to unleashing a preschool class without supervision in Times Square. Lots of people will be harmed, in ways that we can't even imagine, because those little fuckers are creative, fast, and have no idea what dangers they should be watching out for.
Stop Fucking With Trans Lives and Rights
Trans people of all ages deserve a world where their identities are validated and celebrated. A world where healthcare is obtainable, is not surrounded by a bunch of paternalistic, insulting concern and questioning. A world where they are understood to be the experts on their bodies and their identities, and the rest of us are respectfully curious and celebratory. A world where trans joy flourishes everywhere.
Recently Read

Audition for the Fox
Copyright 2025, Tachyon Publications
Fiction

The Mushroom at the End of the World
Copyright 2021, Princeton University Press
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
(2nd time reading)

All the Water in the World
Copyright 2025, St. Martin's Press
Fiction

Tree Thieves
Copyright 2023, Little, Brown Spark
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis

Beaverland
Copyright 2022, Twelve
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis

Ninety Percent of Everything
Copyright 2014, Picador
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis

Uncommon Carriers
Copyright 2007, FSG
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis

Hammajang Luck
Copyright 2025, Harper Voyager
Fiction
Links of Note
Articles, papers, and other things that don't make it on to my reading page.
The World is Toxic. Welcome to the Metabolic Era
The Stones Shall Cry out: Consciousness, Rocks, and Indians
On Nonscalability: The Living World is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
Feminists write the Anthropocene: three tales of possibility in Late Capitalism
Decolonization is not a Metaphor
Disability, Bias, and AI