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Politics essays
Essays on power, coercion, statecraft, legitimacy, and the social conditions that make domination look natural. 28 essays in this theme.
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People are not becoming inherently dishonest, lazy, or cynical. They are becoming game-theoretically optimal for the environment they have been placed in.
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Stop designing for the idealized "Hero User." Learn how to build resilient interfaces that work when your user is stressed, tired, and operating on 15% battery.
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Resilience is a subsidy we pay to cover the cost of structural failure
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The interface is dying because the “User” is obsolete. On the post-user web, AI agents, friction economics, and the rise of adversarial infrastructure.
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A guide to the difference between moral language and structural constraint
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No single ontology—vendor or otherwise—should monopolize state violence.
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We must reclaim the maintenance that keeps people alive rather than the one that keeps systems standing.
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Predictive modeling is always an exercise of political power.
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From algorithmic empathy to moral branding: the hidden politics of charisma in AI.
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The political question isn’t if shocks arrive, but where the load lands. This essay reframes “policy” as applied physics—and legitimacy as a system’s load-bear…
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From 1493 papal decrees to 2025 AI eviction pilots, and the single profit logic that sustains them.
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What happens when grief is routinized? When mourning scripts follow mass shootings, airstrikes, or police violence—but policy doesn’t move?
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I don’t want you to just avoid burnout, I want you to see labor as a site of struggle, defaults as political choices, and for us to reforge our systemic bluepr…
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Reclaiming Collective Care Without the State
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In a world structured by borders and paperwork, does human dignity require state approval?
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AI-Driven Time-Series Modeling Will Reshape Political Campaigns
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And what we can do about it, from my personal experiences and research
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Unlike many religions, Ascetic Jainism was built in absence of, and in opposition to, state power
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