Don’t Build the Blackwall
How the fight against rogue AI is being hijacked to rebuild the mid-century telecom monopoly.
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act V)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act IV)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act III)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act II)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
Nobody to Sue — A country is about to let a company exist with no person behind it
In 2024, a man named Jake Moffatt lost his grandmother. He went online to book a flight home for the funeral. Air Canada’s website chatbot popped up and told him he could apply for a discounted…
Singularity and the Rain of Telephones
Charles Stross opens Singularity Sky with one of the great first paragraphs in science fiction. Telephones fall out of the sky onto the cobblestones of a colonial capital. Some of them are still…
The Quiet Abundance of the Singularity
In the summer of 2026, a seventy-one-person clinical trial in China quietly closed the distance between “incurable” and “treatable” for a disease that has no cure.
Software Horticulture
For most of its history, software borrowed its language from construction. Architecture. Blueprints. Foundations. Structural code. The metaphor was accurate for the work as it was actually done…