A Feed You've Fallen Behind On
A briefing is a list of what happened. Everything that mattered, you had to be there for.
Systems & Spines
The difference between the technology and the story we're sold about it. Weekly.
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Summer Spines
Three weeks. Five books. One chair.
Pointed at Whom
Power funds the eye aimed at you and buries the one that would name who decided. The word for both is efficiency.
The Lover's Anger
Cynicism is just wonder that gave up. I am not making that trade.
The Staked Read
We use one word for two different skills. AI just made the cheap one free, and we've spent twenty years dismantling the only thing that ever made the other.
Tick Tock, Tick Tock
When someone says a technology is years away, the buried variable is whose return clock set that date. Capital's lifecycle, not the physics, decides what gets built and when.
Load-Bearing
AI and universal basic income promise a post-work future, but both can only count work that already has a price, and miss the unpaid care labor holding it up.
The Luxury of Being Understood
Communication was always an engineering problem. The people always understood by the system are the ones unready for AI; those who had to translate are fluent in it.
The Part I Left Out
Thirty-one essays about judgment and this technology, and the move I never named: leaving the work to defend STEM as wonder, from inside a classroom.
We Stopped Meaning the Thing
Technology stopped meaning the thing that works and came to mean the story that sells it. The apparatus that mishandled AI is now staging quantum the same way.