work & appearances

positions

• technology correspondent at the spectator
• staff critic at tablet
• contributing writer at the dispatch
• publisher of default.blog, an independent publication about the internet, technology, and the future

internet real life

in 2024–25, i co-created, curated, and hosted two cohorts of internet real life with peter limberg: an interview series and “inverse course” looking for an internet-realist position beyond naïve optimism and reflexive pessimism. guest presentations and q&as were followed by private, unrecorded collective inquiry.

selected talks

• finding our own resilience
  aspen ideas: climate, chicago — july 21, 2026. workshop with ripley stroud.
• llms as djinn?
  human directed futures: dsro, san francisco — november 2025.
• “on claude 9”: examining emotional and romantic attachment to ai assistants
  talk, 10th international congress on love & sex with robots (lsr2025), uqam, montréal.
• objects and anime characters of our affection
  future commerce visions summit at the museum of modern art, new york — june 10, 2025. on fictosexuality, objectum sexuality, and how both intersect with ai companions.
• the digital sexual revolution
  creator and host, a live debate on mediated sex produced with substack at teatro zinzanni, chicago — september 16, 2025.
• imitation, innovation, and heresy in the digital public sphere
  novitāte: new models of thought and desire, washington, d.c. — november 3, 2023.
• who you really are: a conversation about pseudonymity
  coindesk consensus, austin — june 11, 2022. on pseudonymity, anonymity, and identity online.

grants & recognition

• two emergent ventures grants
• substack fellow, inaugural Bridge cohort (2020)
• substack grow fellow, one of eleven recipients (2021)
• interact fellow (2023)

selected interviews & conversations

• katherine dee on our internet age — n.s. lyons
• the rise and fall of the girlboss meme — modern wisdom with chris williamson
• ai psychosis — maiden mother matriarch with louise perry
• a cyberethnography of imagination — a conversation with ruby justice thelot
• did the internet break our sense of reality? — reason
• digital hauntings, friend ai, and the e-girl timeline — future commerce
• finding life where other people don’t see it — the common reader
• early internet culture and the feeling of being online — experience.computer

before this

before journalism, i worked as a copywriter for apple support and led internal editorial work at tesla; worked as a strategist at praytell, writing for brands and researching internet trends and film projects; ran community at repl.it; and researched archival media for pbs/wgbh, including american experience: the great war, NOVA, and frontline.

i have a bfa in dramatic writing from nyu tisch. in a past life, i wrote award-winning plays and screenplays.