About The Dumpster Fire

This started with a pretty simple observation: the internet is drowning in noise. Every day, the signal-to-noise ratio gets worse — and now, with AI-generated content flooding every platform, finding genuinely thoughtful work feels like archaeology.

So I built this. From The Dumpster Fire is a curated collection of the best things on the internet — articles, videos, podcasts, poetry, letters, art, and the marginalia we refuse to let the algorithm bury. Every issue is hand-selected, every curator’s note is written by a human (me), and every recommendation comes with a reason.

This isn’t a summary service. You have LLMs for that. This is closer to seduction — I want to give you an incentive, a hook, a framing that makes you want to read the original thing. I want to titillate your senses, not flatten them.

We are living in an information-saturated world. We don’t have a scarcity problem anymore. We have a filtering problem. And I think that’s where a human curator becomes important again. A person. A taste. A point of view. A track record. A recognisable “this person consistently finds good stuff” signal.

I want to pick out the big themes, connect them to other themes, connect them to other pieces, and over time build an interconnected web of ideas — a lattice of links that compounds.

The name? The internet is basically a raging dumpster fire at this point. But fires are warm, too. And sometimes, if you look carefully enough, you find beautiful things glowing in the wreckage.