CBE: Contract-Based Execution Architecture
An architecture for extracting maximum utility from existing physical capital through strict execution invariants.
The Ultimate Avatar of Balance
Measuring the Political Economy's acceleration towards the Entropic Event Horizon.
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The Nested Machine: Symbolic Culture and the Viability of the Empire
Following on from The Hidden Costs of Making Everything General Purpose, where I used CPU Architecture and Linux along with a kernel patch as an analogy for the political economy; this time I’m going show how the concept of the contract as the crystalisation of trust
The Telemetry of Collapse: Sentience, Extraction, and the Immune Response to a Dying Machine
In this essay: Why the sea squirt digests its own brain, why your depression might be an accurate immune response, and why ‘doing nothing’ might be the only ethical action left.
The Hidden Costs of Making Everything General Purpose
Or: Why We Must Stop Teaching Abstraction as Obfuscation
The Pragmatism of Waste: How Signal Occlusion Drives Architectural Regression
As a free software contributor who has spent years maintaining and optimising the x32 Application Binary Interface (ABI), I have observed its recent deprecation from the Linux kernel from a position of intimate technical familiarity.
The Epistemic Embargo: The State’s Blink Reflex at the Entropic Event Horizon
When you see a hit coming, you don’t calculate its velocity.
The Architecture of Delusion: The Digital Dam and the Camouflage of Material Decay
For two decades, Western liberal democracies defined their digital superiority in stark opposition to the ‘Great Firewall’ of China, routinely condemning Beijing’s authoritarian network controls.
The Whitehall Palantír: Data Enclosure and the Thermodynamics of Hubris
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The Folly of the Apex: Why Wealth Concentration is a Thermodynamic Crisis
In a recent and otherwise excellent essay, Dr Warwick Powell made a compelling case for placing supply chains at the heart of macroeconomic analysis.
The Trillionaire Siphon: Why the ‘Bottom 46%’ Statistic Hides a Darker Reality
With the recent IPO of SpaceX pushing Elon Musk’s net worth past the $1 trillion mark, the inevitable wave of NGO statistics has flooded the discourse.