The Bandwidth of Sorrow
On Exhaustion, Empire, and the Faint Light Still Coming Through
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Musings on Humanity and Survival
Existential risk, human futures, survival, catastrophe, and the choices that shape humanity over long horizons.
The Cassandra Tax
Accepting the Burden of Knowing Too Much
The Frame that Admits No Reply
Christine McDougall, who writes at Syntropic World and has spent twenty years building the models and the language her project needs, has published an essay called 95% Yanged Out. It’s a furious, exact, and, in large...
A Most Discrete Desertion
From Digitisation to Disenfranchisement
The Unseen Architecture of Consent
Recalibrating Human Agency in the Algorithmic Age
The Thinker the Century Couldn't Hear
In Memoriam Edgar Morin
Anxiety In The Western Mind
Distrust and the Machinery of an Exhausted Civilisation
A Directorless Catastrophe
Harder Truths About Who Is Actually In Charge
How Wars Grow Old Before They Die
Face, Fatigue, and the Art of Slowing Humanity's Urge to Fight
The Arithmetic of Grief
How Human Attention Actually Works
What Technology is For
The Palantir Manifesto and the Machinery
Beyond the Illusion of Unity
Why Shared Purpose Matters More Than Amity
Amnesia's Grip in the "Here and Now"
Human Psyche in the Age of Industrial Economism
The Rules Were Never The Point
On laws of war and the business model they protect
The Idea That Couldn't Be Forgiven
Why truth provokes outrage, and has always done so
Transcending Our Limitations
Beyond the Binaries of Separation and Disconnection
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