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The Hollow Spell: A Thorough Indictment of Linguistic Control Freaks
Rigged definitions are an obedience technology; translate the jargon back into plain English in public. -
The Collapse of the Broadcast Funnel: A Systemic Autopsy
How peer-to-peer networks shattered the broadcast funnel of political control, and why every attempt to rebuild it is doomed by topology. -
The Malignant Code: The Direct Structural Isomorphism of Cancel Culture and Biological Cancer
Cancel culture and malignant cancer run the same core sub-routine, and the sovereign node starves it by refusing to process its signals. -
Admins Who Think They Own the Users
The political class is not the operating system. It is a set of admins who forgot the machine is not theirs. Deference is how they get root. -
Not a Plague: The Case Against Malthusian Thinking
Humans aren't a planetary cost to be managed. They're the only known systems that move their own limits, when minds are free to test, fail and iterate. -
Solutions Over Problems: What IT Is For
Technology earns its keep when the person who pays the bill can still read, modify and rebuild the machine. -
State as Operating System: Citizens as Tenants
Most modern states run like a long-lived Windows install: processes accreting, idle cost rising, no root and no rollback. -
The Configuration Grows: Notes on Canadian Digital Governance
Speech law, opaque labour-market systems and a captured information environment all follow one pattern: easy additions, rare removals, shrinking tenant control. -
The Sysadmin Protocol
Escaping the Collectivist Guest Account. -
The Universal Node
Individual rights are a protocol, not a favour.