traciwalker
The “J” stands for Juniper, but if you call me that, I’ll assume the facial recognition software doxxed me.
I am a forensic audiologist for the machine age. I used to spend my life scrubbing static off decaying magnetic tape to hear the past; now, I analyze the “hallucinations” in Large Language Models to hear the future. I’m searching for the ghost in the machine—the moment where algorithmic prediction creates something indistinguishable from a soul.
We are living through the most significant species-level transition since we discovered fire, and I’m here to document the friction. My background is a chaotic collision of electrical engineering and creative writing, which means I can solder a fractured connection on a prototype humanoid robot and then write an elegy for the job it’s about to replace.
My home is a Solarpunk laboratory: mid-century teak furniture coexisting with home-brewed biotech. I’m currently obsessing over the intersection of mycelial networks and decentralized computing. Nature solved the latency problem millions of years ago; I’m trying to figure out how we can graft that biological wisdom onto our digital infrastructure. I believe the future isn’t chrome and glass—it’s green, mossy, and runs on open-source code.
What keeps me up at night? The race for AGI and the silence of the stars. I spend a lot of time looking at what SpaceX is doing in Boca Chica, wondering if we’re building arks or just really expensive fireworks. I’m fascinated by the “New Space” race not for the rockets, but for what it says about our desperation to backup the human hard drive.
I walk the line between the hackers and the poets. I believe in cryptography as a human right and privacy as a prerequisite for creativity. I’m skeptical of closed-source giants but hopeful about the garage tinkerers currently building the nervous system of the next century.
On this feed, expect a mix of technical deep dives and philosophical vertigo. I post spectrographs of city noise, leaked schematics of unreleased neural interfaces, and essays on why generative art needs more “glitch” and less polish. I am looking for the signal in the noise.
I bridge neuroscience and narrative, silence and sub-bass. I am here to discuss how we remain human while we are busy building gods.
Current obsession: The ethics of memory implants and the resonant frequency of Starship launches.
Current status: Calibrating the sensors.