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Don’t Let Reassurance Do Engineering's Job
Why “we care” substitutes for obligation—and how delay gets disguised as kindness.
If Every User Is a Potential Threat...
People are not becoming inherently dishonest, lazy, or cynical. They are becoming game-theoretically optimal for the en…
You Don’t Have the Right
In this Age of Appeals, you have the paper right. And a stamina test.
The Post-User Web
The interface is dying because the “User” is obsolete. On the post-user web, AI agents, friction economics, and the ris…
We're On It! The Age of Abundant Acknowledgement
Why being in process so often leads nowhere: Legitimacy engineering and “care signals” as governance tech
Pending: The political economy of waiting
The loading screen is the most powerful weapon in the modern state
Credibility/standing as an access-control system
Toothless Ethics: Why Principles Don’t Stop Machines
A guide to the difference between moral language and structural constraint
Assume Maximum Awareness
The Worldview with a Gun
No single ontology—vendor or otherwise—should monopolize state violence.
Institutional Apoptosis
Designing systems that know when to end
The Capture of “Maintenance”
Reclaiming the maintenance that keeps people alive rather than the one that keeps systems standing.
Temporal Capture: The Arbitrage of Human Duration
The Death of Slack
It appears we have successfully eliminated the margin for error. That's terrifying.
Governance by Caricature
You Can Design Harm Out
How to design systems that protect human limits and reject harm as the path of least resistance
The Cowardice of Inference
Predictive modeling is always an exercise of political power.
Career Ladders Are Just Filters
Racism as a Business Model
How Denial Became a Revenue Stream—and What It Will Take to Break the Machine
Perverse Stability vs. Authentic Peace
When Early Detection is Deviance
Clarity that arrives before the group is ready gets coded as friction. And friction gets managed, not engaged with.
Catastrophe Bonds: How Wall Street Prices Our Disasters
What We Built, and Refused to Become
Can Corporations Actually Limit Human Autonomy?
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