The Phantom Safety Net: Silicon Valley’s Fake UBI
How corporate equity pledges and sovereign wealth schemes are being used to paper over the destruction of America’s public infrastructure.
Politics
What it Really Means to Win the AI Race
On the morning of July 17, 2026, Xi Jinping took the stage in Shanghai for his first in-person address to China’s World AI Conference, and he began his keynote by crediting the United States. Seventy…
Liable for Your Own Actions
The Accountability Gap in Alex Karp’s AI Nationalization Pitch
The Automation of Certainty
How Stale Priors and Epistemic Arrogance Cascade from Synthetic Text to Kinetic Warfare
Nobody Voted for the AI Race
The United States has a long history of treating technological competition as a crisis, and of building permanent institutions on the strength of that crisis.
The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism
Where It Comes From, How to Spot It, and How to Outlast It
Enclosure, Again: The Human Cost of Progress
The AI buildout and the oldest bargain of the industrial age
Don’t Build the Blackwall
How the fight against rogue AI is being hijacked to rebuild the mid-century telecom monopoly.
The Ancient Source of Neon and Chrome
There is a moment near the start of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, published in 1984, when the reader learns exactly what kind of story this is going to be. Case, a washed-up console cowboy, has been…
The AI Data Center Problem in 2026
The people who packed the Tucson city council chambers on the sixth of August, 2025, had been told almost nothing, and what they had figured out on their own was enough.