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cybernetics Philosophy

Turn it Off

Autocorrect does not correct language. It normalises it. It quietly collapses variation, cadence, hesitation, and idiosyncratic drift into a statistically preferred surface. In doing so, it narrows vocabulary and cognition, nudging expression toward higher-probability words and away from outliers that often carry intent and conceptual precision. What it offers as clarity is often conformity. What […]

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language

Symbolic Traffic

Language is a game in which winning, or apparent success, is characterised, celebrated, and sustained by the relational value of tokens within it. What actually wins is the communication system itself. Human projects, without exception, are functions of belief within language, of language. Success is the generation of more language. Wealth, politics, and sociocultural dominance […]

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Philosophy

Armageddon Absurdity

Across the world, the sociocultural reality we call civilisation exists only as a field of shared meaning and communicative patterns held in living minds and enacted through collective interaction. If the population of minds sustaining that field were abruptly extinguished, the artefacts of culture — cities, texts, technologies, narratives — would persist physically but would […]