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Surveillance Capitalism

Surveillance capitalism claims to see outward, yet its deepest capture is inward. Any system that grounds authority in exhaustive data collection must internalise its own apparatus. The observer becomes the most observed entity in the field. As capture intensifies, freedom contracts. Control architectures require constant calibration and escalation, growing brittle, paranoid, and self-consuming. Power built […]

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Palantir: who sees, is seen

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Post date Jan 26, 2026
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Palantir begins as a word before it becomes a company: Tolkien’s seeing-stones, artefacts of vision and distance, instruments of remote awareness that promise clarity while quietly warping intention. They collapse space, compress time, and tempt their users into mistaking access for understanding. In Middle-earth, the danger is not simply that the stones reveal too much, […]

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Stranger Kings

Post author By G
Post date Jan 2, 2026
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Evil did not arrive with a plan. It arrived pre-installed, the natural orientation of relationally networked complexity at scale, settling into low-energy states and the familiar attractors of corruption, populism, and conflict. There are puppet-masters and greedy, demonic characters involved, certainly, but even they are mostly riding that prebuilt wave. They do not invent the […]