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Walter Mitty Effects in AI Incident Analyses
Metanarrative pathologies in the OpenAI-HF incident
Aug 31
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August Break
Taking a break through August/early September. Billing will be paused.
Aug 1
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July 2026
Cognitive Farmsteading
The message of the AI medium is intellectual rural domesticity
Jul 28
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Join me in Jamverse
My first foray into contributing to a science fictional extended universe
Jul 24
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Can the (Social) Oobleck Dance?
Temporal forcing of non-Newtonian precommodified ooze in the appropriate context tanks might lead to prescience
Jul 18
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The Taste Essay
Taste cultures, risk, cruelty, and kindness
Jul 12
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A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty
Jul 9
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Dead Forest Theory
Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out
Jul 5
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Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s
A ridiculous generated photo essay taking a meme much too far
Jul 1
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June 2026
Strange Knowledgeability
Human knowing in perspectival encyclopedicity
Jun 26
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Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals
Solving the distribution crisis in marketing
Jun 22
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A Camera, Not an Engine II
Further thoughts on photography in latent space, now with agents!
Jun 20
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