Your mind ever taunt you? Tell you you're not good enough? That's not a deep spiritual truth. It's just your brain chemistry actively gaslighting you. Stop trying to think your way out of a thinking problem. Use your body to force a chemical override. Here is the science.
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Weaponizing Paranoia With 1950s Horror Marketing
Hollywood took cold war dread and turned it into a carnival of cheap thrills. Now we steal that exact energy to market a new kind of infection.
The Agency Manifesto: From “Why Am I Like This?” to “Watch What I Do Next!”
THE AGENCY MANIFESTO FROM "WHY AM I LIKE THIS?" TO "WATCH WHAT I DO NEXT." I Deserve To Know What It's Like TO NOT BE OVERWEIGHT. Not someday. Not theoretically. Not for other people. FOR ME. The Law Of The Machine BODY INPUT -----> BODY OUTPUT BODY INPUT -----> BODY OUTPUT BODY INPUT -----> BODY … Continue reading The Agency Manifesto: From “Why Am I Like This?” to “Watch What I Do Next!”
Renting Strength from a Sociopath, The Meat, the Math, and the Machine
I stopped letting a piece of paper gatekeep my life and starved the hedonistic loop of sugar and nicotine to build a foundation in code. Now I treat the AI like the idiot savant it is and force it to show its work so I actually own my strength.
A real book in hand?
Reading on a phone is a nervous twitch but reading a physical book is an act of defiance. We have traded depth for convenience and we are losing our minds in the process.
Hit that anvil!
Writing daily isn't a soft wellness routine. It's survival. I stripped the safety nets. Voluntary starvation to focus the mind. If you can't master your flesh, you can't master the page. Stop waiting for permission. Forge your blade and fight for your dinner.
I Hit 725 Pounds. The Prison Was Never the Walls. It Was My Body.
New article, and it's the one that explains all the others. I was 200 pounds at nine years old. 300 at thirteen while wrestling. 400 at twenty-five. Then a back injury at 450 took my movement and I climbed to 725. That's when I learned what a prison actually is. Not walls. A body that won't let you leave. I also learned the scale was lying to me, the hard way, in a hospital. I'm done trying to escape the cell. I'm claiming it.
Why “No One Wants AI” Is a Lie That Saved My Life
When a devastating breakup and a hospital bed left me alone at 3 a.m., AI became the lifeline I never expected. This raw, personal story explores how an unexpected source of support pulled me back from the edge, and why the growing chorus of “no one wants AI anymore” erases people like me who are still here because of it.
What I Eat When I’m Allowed to Eat-A 500-Pound Man’s 3.5-Day Refeed Window
Article Two is live. The refeed window. What I actually eat after 84 hours of fasting. The clean day. The McDonald's run I am not pretending didn't happen. The protein pudding recipe that holds the whole thing together. The science of why one bad day doesn't burn the protocol. I show you both because both are real. Every fasting blog shows you the perfect plate. This is the honest one.
I’m a Sumo Sized Ginger Who Fasts 3.5 Days a Week. Here’s What Actually Happens.
Also on Medium I’m a Sumo Sized Ginger Who Fasts 3.5 Days a Week. Here’s What Actually Happens. Three weeks into a six-month honest experiment in losing the weight every diet failed to take. By Joseph Riley Long | Published May 2026 TL;DR: I’m Joseph Riley Long. I’m 500 pounds and I’ve been overweight since I … Continue reading I’m a Sumo Sized Ginger Who Fasts 3.5 Days a Week. Here’s What Actually Happens.