Serpentor's Lair

If you’re reading this on December 30, 2025 (or saving it for the true finish line on December 31), you can feel it: that last-lap energy where everyone insists we’re about to “level up,” “upgrade,” and “optimize” into the next year. But some of us—especially the Gen-X crowd who learned independence from a bike, a curfew, and a streetlight turning on—aren’t itching to sprint into 2026. We’re itching to turn the clock back! Not because 1986 was perfect. It wasn’t. But because it was human-sized. The world felt less like…

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Resistance Isn’t Futile (Unless You Make It That Way) Gen-X grew up with friction: paper maps, cash, calling collect, and a built-in suspicion of anything that felt too slick. That instinct matters now, because the “assimilation” threat isn’t a single sentient AI declaring victory. It’s a stack of incentives pushing the same direction—convenience, centralization, and constant data capture—until opting out becomes socially and economically painful. Think of the Borg: they didn’t conquer by debate. They offered “efficiency,” then rewired the individual into the collective. Today’s version doesn’t need nanoprobes. It…

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