Archive

2026

• Federalist No. 86 May 22
• When Compression Becomes Authority May 14
• The Vortex Had No Public Receipt: A Control-Theoretic Reading of Zardoz, Unfortunately May 12
• Escape Hatches Are Not Liberation May 7
• Lying to Management May 3
• The Lie Is Cheaper Than the Proof May 1
• Star Trek V Is a Midlife Movie Apr 26
• The Labeler Is the Policy Apr 22
• Conceding Authorship Apr 20
• The Inner Light and Trek’s Dignity Budget Apr 19
• Subscription Services for Unprocessed Reality Apr 5
• Sold as Freedom, Priced as Necessity Apr 4
• Plan 9 for Them, Browser for You Apr 2
• What Claude Code Accidentally Revealed About Agent Safety Mar 31
• We Didn’t End the Draft. We Drafted a Permanent Minority. Mar 28
• The Politics Are in the Order of Implementation Mar 26
• Oracle Wasn’t Weird Enough Mar 23
• Substack Didn’t Launch a Feature. It Made a Confession. Mar 20
• The Moral Panic Has an API Now Mar 18
• The Problem Isn’t Ownership. It’s Entrainment. Mar 16
• Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” as a Miltonic Soteriology of Mechanical Becoming Mar 13
• Bluesky didn’t reproduce Twitter’s ownership structure Mar 11
• Invisibility Is Not Maturity Mar 9
• I Described a Threat Model. Someone Built It as a Toy. Everyone Loved It. Mar 7
• The Exit Is Math Mar 5
• The Trap Is Sprung Mar 3
• Any Lawful Use Feb 28
• Language Is a Proposal, Not an Authority Feb 20
• Capability Without Governance Feb 18
• When Protocol Becomes Ontology Feb 16
• Terms of Service Are Not Governance Feb 14
• Reasoning Without Witnesses Feb 12
• The Model Asked, or: Accountability as a Disappeared Object Feb 6
• Monte Carlo Mysticism, or: When Scale Looks Like Insight Feb 4
• Moltbook, or: The First Pure Waste Machine Feb 2
• We Built the Wrong Michael Knight Jan 30
• The Summoning Problem Jan 26
• Constitutional AI and the Maintenance of Plausible Alignment Jan 22
• The Thing We Were Already Doing Jan 6

2025

• Why Hallucination Detection Needs a Clock Dec 29
• Moloch Is a Timing Problem With Great PR Dec 22
• Empiricism as Veblen Good Dec 19
• How Chrome Ate the Web Dec 17
• The Silicon Valley Clock Dec 15
• When the State Adopts the Startup Tempo Dec 11
• The Power Beneath the Power Dec 10
• GenAI.mil and the Surrender of the Clock Dec 9
• The Wonton Burrito Catastrophe Nov 28
• The Missing Metabolism Nov 24
• From Libraries to Ledgers Nov 21
• Developing the Latent Image Nov 19
• The Majestic Equality of Broken Systems Nov 17
• The Penny Died Nov 14
• Circuses as Bread Nov 12
• The McLuhan Trap Nov 10
• The American AI Infrastructure Authority Nov 7
• What Moral Discourse Can’t Do Nov 5
• The Mixed Signals Index Nov 3
• Building Trust Islands Oct 31
• The Exploit Economy Oct 29
• Two Disciplines, One Wound Oct 27
• I Built Substrate Warfare Arms Control in an Afternoon Oct 25
• The Interest Graph State Oct 24
• I Built Substrate Warfare Arms Control in an Afternoon Oct 23
• Liturgy of the Last Multiplier Oct 22
• The Correction Event Oct 20
• Exiling the Sovereign Without Leaving the Room Oct 18
• Privatizing Dollar Hegemony Oct 17
• The Bubble Is Accelerating Oct 16
• The Global AI Bubble Oct 14
• The Reflexive Furnace Oct 10
• Garbage Mesh Oct 8
• OpenAI’s AMD Deal Reveals What the SEC Filings Already Showed Oct 6
• ATProto’s Structural Risks for Marginalized Communities Oct 3
• The Internet, Forked Oct 1
• The Radical Act of Obvious Solutions Sep 29
• When the Map Ate the Territory Sep 26
• The Machine Runs on Tragedy Sep 24
• The Cartographers of Nothing Sep 22
• The Oracle Papers Sep 19
• Latent Capitalism Sep 17
• When the Map Eats the City Sep 15
• The Death Star Distraction Sep 10
• When the Terrain Must Match the Map Sep 8
• Stochastic Firewalls Sep 5
• The Genealogy of Authority Capture Sep 4
• Your Crisis Is Performing Well This Quarter Sep 3
• The Lockean Pathology Sep 1
• The Mirror That Loves You Aug 28
• SCP-USA: The Anomalous Republic Aug 22
• Hopium, Copium, Toil & Trouble Aug 20
• The Goldfish Gambit Aug 15
• Glass Roses and the Ghosts of Journalism Aug 14
• The Batboy Papers Aug 12
• Which Continental Philosopher Are You? Aug 4
• Field Notes on the Spectacle Machine Aug 1
• Cognitive Offloading as Service Jul 28
• The Spectacle Machine Jul 25
• Why I'm Probably Building a CVE Database for Ideas Jul 23
• CVE-∞: Western Intellectual Tradition Ontological Reification Vulnerability Jul 22
• CVE-∞-EAST: Eastern Metaphysical Non-Duality Exploit Vulnerability Jul 22
• The Kaleidoscope Jul 20
• No Exit, No Origin Jul 18
• Living in the Mesh Jul 16
• How Bluesky Broke Every Security Principle Jul 14
• The Polynopticon Blinks Jul 11
• Consent of the Governed (EULA Version) Jul 9
• Simuleviathan Jul 7
• Voluntary Disarmament Jul 4
• The Validation Papers Jul 2
• Language Is a Trapdoor Jun 26
• Wile E. Columbia Jun 18
• Welcome to the End of History Jun 17
• The Banality of Decline Jun 17
• On endings Jun 10
• Extensions to Critical Theory Jun 6
• The Chorus Field Phenomenon Jun 5
• On Noticing Jun 4
• The Machines Got the Ecosystem May 30
• Of walls, and seeing what sticks May 14
• Once more, dear friends Apr 23
• Should I Tell Anyone This Exists? Apr 18
• After the Cyberneticists Apr 17
• Stealth Epistemes Apr 16
• Source Code of Belief Apr 15
• The Poster's Bushido Apr 11
• The Forest Has Wolves Apr 10
• Mirror Ethics Apr 10
• The Bully State Apr 8
• Semantic Amplifiers, Not Intelligence Simulators Apr 7
• The Kung Fu Crisis, Part II Apr 4
• I Know Kung Fu Apr 2
• Data Immiseration Mar 27
• The Dream of Sovereign Compute Is Dying Mar 26
• Thinking In And Of Vectors Mar 21
• Future Aftershocks Mar 10
• Hello there. Mar 4
• Against My Better Judgment, A Newsletter Mar 3

2022

• Coming soon Dec 15