ashleymills.com is not dead
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It is being mildly threatened into existence.

The old website has been removed from public view because it had become less of a website and more of a haunted filing cabinet with a stylesheet.

A new one is being made. It will contain essays, tutorials, art, stray systems-thinking, and other small animals found living under the floorboards of consciousness.

Current pressure ritual: the site remains awkwardly empty until Ashley finishes the first essay, currently titled “LLMs Are Just Predictive Text”.

This is not a launch page. It is a controlled burn.

status: old site offline
hypothesis: friction was the enemy
next action: write the article
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