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What happens when a corporation tries to fit authority inside a token.
A blend of tech experiments, ethical inquiry, and personal storytelling to decode the systems shaping our digital lives. Strange metaphors, useful tools, and the question: What does staying human look like now?
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What happens when a corporation tries to fit authority inside a token.

Picking winners is the easy part. The Calibration Cup is a public test of whether the confidence behind each pick was worth anything.

An experiment to figure out which AI laws actually matter before they matter, with help from two AI agents and a healthy distrust of their output.

What every household needs to know about voice cloning, deepfake scams, and the plan that works.

On "What is truth, really?"

Why the color everyone uses to explain consciousness explains nothing at all and why AI will eventually need to “feel” to get to the next level

Smarter models are only half the story. The rest is permissions, accountability, and trust.

Artificial intelligence hasn’t solved the problem of free will.

Why robots can fake trippy outputs, what it would take for them to actually feel it, and what that says about us

Integrated Information Theory: why unity matters for minds (and machines)