Short Stories: The Logbook's Lies (Part 1)
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The Republic Is Not a Platform. You Are a Digital Citizen, Not a User. Act Like It.
Plato did not write The Republic as an instruction manual. He wrote it as a warning. The philosopher sat down in the ruins of Athens' democratic experiment, having watched his mentor drink hemlock at democracy's behest, and tried to answer a question that has never stopped being
Feature, Not Bug: How AI Sycophancy Became Everyone's Problem
Two new studies confirm what anyone paying attention already suspected. AI chatbots are systematically flattering us into delusion, and we love them for it. Somewhere, a product manager is smiling. There is a particular kind of genius involved in building a product that makes people measurably worse off and then
Punch Cards and Power Plays: From IBM to Big Tech, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data State
There is a distinct class of modern astonishment that deserves to be bottled and sold as a novelty item. It tends to appear whenever wealthy executives, draped in the language of innovation and disruption, are seen sidling up to political power in ways that feel, how shall we put it,
The Internet Kill Switch Iran Built While the West Was Busy Debating Age Verification
The most politically significant event of January 8th, 2026, was not broadcast on television, did not trend on social media, and was not reported by wire services for several hours. It was visible, in real time, only to a small number of people staring at network monitoring dashboards, and what