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cybernetics

After Trump

If the United States survives Trump, there is a genuine possibility of reconstruction, but only because damage exposes the relationships that mattered and brings hidden dependencies into the open, revealing how the system was actually held together. The damage being inflicted is real and severe, economic and political at once. Disruption to institutions, markets, and […]

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physics

Quantum Confusion: Institutional Inertia

We are taught to treat quantum mechanics as intrinsically strange, opaque, almost hostile to intuition. The standard story is that reality itself is bizarre, and that only extreme mathematical sophistication grants partial access to it. Yet this framing quietly ignores another possibility: that many workable intuitions, partial models, and genuinely useful ways of thinking never […]