The Architecture of the Infinite Con
From Theranos’s Black Box to Elon Musk’s Kinetic Hyperstition
Business
The Assistant That Stays Home
What a private AI assistant on your own laptop can actually do today
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…
Where the Machine Must Stop
Between the corporations optimizing us out of the org chart and the governments optimizing us out of the decision, there is a third path: bound the machine, and let institutions be human.