Legal & personal disclaimers

01 · Purpose and positioning

What this site is, and is not

This site is a philosophical-content surface: essays, a glossary of coined terms, a book, video adaptations, and adjacent material proceeding from a single author’s intellectual position. It is not a clinical resource, not a therapeutic intervention, not a self-help framework, and not an instructional program. Readers encounter argument — to take, to leave, to interrogate.

The register is intentional. Pessimism, anti-natalism, structural arguments against existence, and adjacent positions are explored as philosophical positions in active discourse. Disagreement is the expected reader response; engagement on the work’s terms is its first ask.

02 · Not professional advice

Nothing here is a substitute for licensed counsel

Nothing on this site constitutes medical, psychological, legal, financial, or other professional advice. The author writes in the philosophical register; he is not licensed in any of the above domains. Readers seeking professional counsel should consult licensed professionals appropriate to their situation; this site does not substitute for that consultation, and the author makes no representation that the material here is fit for any particular purpose beyond philosophical inquiry.

03 · Philosophical positions, not advocacy

Anti-natalism, pessimism, voluntary extinction

The site discusses anti-natalism, structural pessimism, negative utilitarianism, the empirical asymmetry argument, and voluntary human extinction as positions in philosophical discourse. These are not calls to action, programs of coercion, or endorsements of harm.

The site does not promote violent acts. It expresses a sentiment of longing for the extinction of the anthropomorphic species known as homo sapiens — ideally through voluntary means — while understanding that ‘the end’ may come indirectly through in-fighting and non-consensual terms. Either way, the work does not endorse direct aggression through physical coercion (assault, suicide, homicide, or other), but transmissions of iconoclastic memes.

The arguments are meant to be read, contested, and integrated into the reader’s own thinking — not enacted as instruction. The reader retains full responsibility for how they engage the material.

04 · Personal Mementos — testimony, not template

One interior life, not a prescription

The Personal Mementos sequence (essays and book excerpts where the author writes in first person about lived experience — schizophrenia, panic, psychosomatic pain, isolation, and other particulars) is testimony. It is the record of a specific interior life under specific conditions over a specific period.

The author does not claim to speak for others with similar diagnoses or experiences, nor to prescribe response. Readers experiencing similar conditions are encouraged to seek the care and community that fits their circumstance; the page is not a substitute for either. Resemblance between the author’s interior and the reader’s is recognized, not generalized.

05 · If you are in crisis

Resources, without claims about them

Content on this site engages directly with themes of death, non-existence, suffering, and despair. Readers in acute personal crisis may want resources that this site cannot itself provide:

• Crisis lifelines — most jurisdictions operate one (in the United States, 988; in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Samaritans at 116 123; an international directory exists at findahelpline.com).
• A trusted person — professional, friend, family, or otherwise.

The author does not make claims about the policies, confidentiality, or specific procedures of any listed resource; readers should investigate what fits their circumstance. The work’s register is what it is; this page is not a tonal apology for that, but a recognition that not every reader arrives on the same footing.

06 · Privacy and data

What this site collects, and does not

This site is static — HTML, CSS, and a small amount of JavaScript served by Cloudflare Pages. There is no first-party analytics tracking, no behavioral telemetry, and no advertising. Audio playback is served from a self-owned Cloudflare R2 bucket; playback events are not analytics-instrumented.

Cloudflare’s edge logs may collect standard request data (IP address, user-agent, referrer, request URL) for infrastructure and security purposes, governed by Cloudflare’s own privacy terms. No cookies are set by this site for tracking. The site does not require an account and stores nothing about the reader beyond what passes through Cloudflare’s default request handling.

07 · Copyright and reuse

Licensed under CC-BY-4.0; attribution required; share and adapt freely

All written content, audio, and visual material authored for this site is © Josiah S. Cooper, 2010–2026, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0). The full license text is also mirrored at /LICENSE. You are free to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for any purpose — including commercially — provided you give appropriate credit to Josiah S. Cooper, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Associated projects may carry their own terms. The efilist Argument Library at library.wuld.ink ships under dual CC-BY-4.0 (content) and MIT (code) licensing per its repository. Malgré Tout — the book — retains standard authorial copyright as an independently-published artifact; the CC-BY-4.0 license here covers the book’s presentation pages and authorial commentary on the site, not the book’s text itself. The Ne Hoc Fiat / Successor Protocol project is in development and unreleased; its surface materials are gated and not yet under public license. Readers seeking permission for uses outside the scope of CC-BY-4.0 — or for material outside its scope — should contact the author.

The site also embeds a small ambient background player on each page, which streams tracks from a curated YouTube playlist via youtube-nocookie.com, Google’s reduced-tracking embed domain. When active, this still phones home to Google for video delivery, even though the no-cookie variant does not set tracking cookies until a video is interacted with. Readers who prefer zero third-party network calls can toggle ambient off using the control at the bottom of the page; the off-state persists across sessions in your browser’s local storage.

The site also mirrors a selection of the author’s own prior works as PDFs accessible from the archive — The Point, Love Void Love, Hatred, Forget the Plot, and The Known and the Unknown. Smaller works are served inline from the site itself (Cloudflare Pages); larger works are mirrored on the author’s R2 storage at audio.wuld.ink. These mirrors exist for offline access and archival continuity; the works themselves are the author’s own and carry no third-party tracking. Curatorial selections at the archive surface (excerpts, anchor pages, illustration galleries) remain the editorial entry points; the full-work links exist as escape hatches for readers who wish to wade further.

08 · Recommendations and external linking

Pointers, not endorsements; inclusion is not affiliation

The recommendations surface at /recommendations/ — together with any other listings, links, embeds, or references to third-party work elsewhere on this site — consists of pointers to material the author finds worth attention. It is not endorsement, not co-signature, and not a request for reciprocity.

No party named in any recommendation list has been contacted regarding their inclusion. None of the named individuals, organizations, labels, publishers, platforms, vendors, or other entities have endorsed this site, been informed of their listing, or consented to use of their name or work as a recommendation here. Inclusion does not establish or imply affiliation, sponsorship, partnership, employment, agency, or any other relationship in either direction. The author does not represent any of the named parties; the named parties do not represent the author.

Recommended works, when they reach difficult subject matter, are not implicit prescriptions. The presence of a work on a recommendation list is not advice to engage with that work, and not a claim that engaging with it is safe, healthy, or appropriate for any particular reader. Readers carry their own judgment; the recommendation is a pointer, not a guarantee.

Outbound links open to surfaces controlled by third parties whose terms, policies, and content are not under this site’s control. Linking is not a warranty of accuracy, safety, persistence, or fitness for any purpose. Links may break, redirect, or be retargeted by their owners at any time. Use of any linked surface is at the reader’s own discretion and risk.

09 · On revision and open-mindedness

Open-mindedness is a discipline; revision is its practice

Over the years I have been willing to change my mind when I believed an idea I held was legitimately challenged. I have acquiesced when I encountered what I took to be a superior position, and I have countered aggressively when I thought I could. The aim, when there is one, is to remain humble — knowing the limits of what I can know — and honest about what I actually think and feel. It is not anything less or more than itself.

I have biases, I have inclinations; those are what they are, too. If an idea is impeccable, it will withstand any argument presented to it. Open-mindedness, from this angle, isn’t believing whatever you are told — it is being open, then scrutinizing what you encounter against what you already hold, conceding when what you hold is no longer sufficient, and admitting your bias.