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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

The Dividend of Displacement: How Corporations Profit by Outsourcing Risk

Corporations today amass wealth not by absorbing risk, but by exporting it. Their growth model turns liability into external burden—shifting costs onto users, public systems, or future generations—while repackaging the residue as progress. Externality as Architecture Digital platforms are engineered to reward the sensational, the divisive, and the viral. Outrage propagates faster than nuance, not […]

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culture

Duplicity, Politics & Regulation

Don’t assess a system by its mission statements so much as by its behaviour…