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Provenance Over Polish

Wikipedia’s recent stance on AI is easy to read as a policy adjustment, but that framing misses the deeper issue. The real pressure point is not what Wikipedia has decided to allow or restrict. It is that AI fundamentally weakens one of the quiet assumptions the entire system depends on: that you can infer something…
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In the Beginning Was the Word: Analog Mind, Language, and the Shape of Intelligence

We tend to think of intelligence as computation – inputs, outputs, correct answers. That framing works for software, but it breaks down when you look closely at minds, human or artificial. The Bible starts somewhere else entirely. “In the beginning was the Word.” Not matter. Not mechanism.Word – something active, expressive, unfolding. That opening line…
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We Are Not Going Away

For a long time, mobility was treated as a phase. Something you did when you were young.Something you did when you retired.Something you did when things went wrong and you were “between” real lives. That framing is no longer true. A growing number of people are choosing – or being forced – to live outside…
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Who Benefits from the Criminalization of Poverty?

We live in a time where it is not only possible—but increasingly profitable—to criminalize poverty. And we need to ask, not as a theoretical exercise, but as a matter of urgency: Who benefits when basic survival becomes a crime? Step One: Build the Incentives Let’s start with the American prison system. It’s no secret that…
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Can Real Social Networking Fix Social Media

How AT Protocol and intentional community building can transform superficial connections into genuine relationships The Follower Trap You know the feeling. You’re scrolling through your Bluesky timeline, seeing posts from your 847 followers, and you realize something unsettling: you wouldn’t actually want to have dinner with most of these people. This isn’t meant to be…
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Losing Alexandria

Why losing Google Drive would eclipse the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria In the year 391 CE, a Christian mob led by Bishop Theophilus stormed the Serapeum in Alexandria, Egypt. As flames consumed the daughter library of the legendary Great Library of Alexandria, centuries of accumulated knowledge turned to ash. History remembers this…
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Education in a Pill

Timothy Leary, Trinity, and the Programmable Mind At some point in the late-stage collapse of the American education system, while we were all pretending that debt, dropout rates, and diminishing returns were simply problems of policy or funding, Timothy Leary was already somewhere else entirely. He wasn’t trying to reform the classroom. He was trying…
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A Clean Slate for Care

How America Could Finally Embrace Universal Healthcare After Regime Collapse For as long as I can remember, the United States has treated healthcare not as a birthright, but as a commodity. We’ve built a maze of copays, deductibles, insurance networks, and prescription tiers. We call it freedom, but it feels more like a tax on…
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A Course In Simplicity

Want to simplify your life? You’re not going to do this, but If you were serious in a perfect world, you would google “estate sale company <your city>”, call the first number, give them a key to your house and a piece of paper with an address to mail the check to. Walk away. Don’t…
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Peace, Love, and Second Thoughts

You never forget your first time. My first time was in 1969 in front of Florida State University. I was with my Mom and a couple thousand of our friends at a war protest the first time I was tear gassed. I’m an old hippy. I was raised by many of our founders and great…
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