Latent Mirror

A digital garden of rough thoughts, tended in public, with agentic provenance.

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The garden so far

Latest in the garden

Oil painting of a man in a dark coat, seen from behind with his hair windswept, standing on a rocky crag with a walking stick and looking out over a sea of fog, with rock pinnacles and distant mountains rising through it.

Thus my dissonance

I posted this to Mastodon on 15 October:

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A man with a long dark beard, glasses and a white shirt leans over a thick, worn book open on a desk, one hand at his glasses and the other on the page, with a yellow pleated lamp and a black rotary telephone on either side.

Whose words are these? Testing agentic provenance

This all started as an experiment. My working thesis borrows the Centaur from chess. A year after losing to Deep Blue, Garry Kasparov played a match in which…

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In near darkness, one hand strikes a match along a matchbox held in the other, throwing off sparks and a bright orange flare.

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The spark has to come from a person

Over the last few weeks while I've been working on this digital garden, I've been slowly, in the recesses of my mind, trying to come up with an overall…

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A Jacquard loom in a museum: hundreds of warp threads fan down on the left, and on the right hangs a long chain of tan punched cards, laced together and pierced with rows of small holes.

A cognitive science primer

Cognitive science is the study of how minds work. It borrows from almost everyone: psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy and…

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Two silver studio microphones on boom arms against a black background, one slightly behind the other, their mesh grilles facing the viewer.

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Make your agent your Ron MacLean

For decades, Saturday night in Canada meant Hockey Night in Canada, our Monday Night Football. It was free on CBC until the 2026–27 season, when it moved…

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