This is a now page: a snapshot of what I’m up to at the moment, assembled from this site’s streams every time it rebuilds — so it is current as of 9 November 2026.
Hospital
I am currently in hospital and extremely unwell. I am having haemodialysis five days a week and total parental nutrition or IV feeding for severe malnutrition due to chronic norovirus as well as CPO and E. coli. I am still working but slower than usual.
Knowledge Commons
I am currently working on the theming system for our entire suite of apps. The underlying architectural question is: how can we build an engine that will give a unified look to our apps that run on different stacks, different languages, different ways of doing things. It’s going to be an interesting project but it’s on a deadline.
I am also onboarding a set of new institutions who particularly want to use our KC Works repository. This is satisfying work, reaching out to libraries.
Formal Research
In my research professor role, I am currently writing a book for the MIT Press about the dark web.
My book on Star Trek: Voyager has gone into production and I expect a copyedited version of the manuscript to be with me by the end of November!
I am also writing a somewhat more secret (for now) book about contemporary healthcare and its embroilment in AI technologies.
Writing on Eve.gd
The most recent long-form pieces:
- Unspoken Agreements, Circling Vultures, and Asahi Linux (9 November 2026)
- An update from day 68 in hospital... (15 October 2026)
- My View on AI and University-Level English Literature (5 October 2026)
Short Thoughts
The latest short thought:
Aaron Swartz. Same age as me. Disgusting how AI orgs have ingested the world's material without legal consequence. He merely took some academic articles from JSTOR.
They can take everything and garner $bns while they threw everything at him. And he is now gone.
Learning
The most recent entry from Today I Learned:
If you send email from an apex on Fastmail (x@y.com) to a subdomain (z.x@y.com), there's no DNS and FM assumes it is the MX. You can turn this off under subdomain routing.
Listening
Most recently: Bullet (Nick Warren & Nicolás Rada Remix) by Fluke. The band I have played most lately is Fluke. Scrobbled on Last.fm; the full log is at /listening.
For who I am and what I do more permanently, see about, accounts, or my CV (PDF).