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Summer 2025 U.S. Vibe Brief
A contemporary sentiment and vibe map of the US with o3
Jul 26
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Tripwire Minds, Clockwork Days
There is no healthy lifestyle formula for creative production
Jul 10
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June 2025
Prompting is Managing
No, LLMs aren't creating “Cognitive Debt”
Jun 19
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May 2025
A Random Walk Down Meme Street
Living in cultural index-fund Mary Sue civilizations
May 1
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April 2025
Autoamputation Flow
How AI Is Changing Human Nature
Apr 12
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The Poverty of Abundance
A meta-analysis of a hyperstitional project
Apr 11
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To Know is to Stage
Warm Caches in Cold Worlds
Apr 5
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The Starfish and the Goose
Trade Complexity, Tariff Nationalism, and the Fragile Leviathan
Apr 4
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LLMs as Index Funds
Language, Homogenization, and the Search for Alpha
Apr 1
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March 2025
Knowledge Under Siege
Strategic Response in the Age of Institutional Redundancy
Mar 30
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Deep Teaching
Ghost Pedagogies and the Architecture of Learning
Mar 29
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The History and Future of Memeing Things Into Reality
Introducing Slotraptions, AI-assisted textual contraptions
Mar 9
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