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cybernetics

Institutional Decay

I spent decades preparing for real inquiry — thinking that universities existed to confront the unknown. Instead, I walked into a machine that protects itself before it protects knowledge. It acts like a guardian of truth while defending hierarchy. It talks about discovery while policing deviation. The gap between its claims and its actions doesn’t […]

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cybernetics

Objective Function of Machine Learning

Studying machine learning now looks less like a steady ascent and more like an asymptotic orbital reference frame perennially caught in and constrained between attraction and repulsion. The desire is centripetal, a pull towards the imagined centre of mastery and promise, but the structure itself functions centrifugally, casting people back out, denying arrival. The gap […]

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Philosophy

Meaningless Production

It is worth reflecting upon the unresolvable core of contemporary working life in the post-industrial “West”. This is a suggested contemplative practice that does not seek meaning or purpose so much as it asserte that there is none. Beyond the gravitational center of a system of work, production and consumption that is optimally (if inefficiently) […]