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The Cybernetics of School: The Stars, the Well, and the Institution

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Post date Aug 31, 2026
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Institutions study the world remarkably well. The harder problem is that the world they are studying is also inside the building, and there is no position outside the system from which that entanglement simply disappears.

Philosophy

Triggered: The Logical Collapse of Civilisation

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Post date Aug 20, 2026
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The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.

cybernetics satire

A Theory of Dickheads

Everyone knows a dickhead. The interesting question is why the conditions that generate them do so, enduringly, and with such uncanny frequency.

language

Semantics Follows Frequency: Why Meaning Repeats and History Rhymes

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Post date Aug 8, 2026
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Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.

language

Probably: Why What Happens Keeps Happening

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Post date Aug 8, 2026
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The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.

cybernetics

how capitalism reconstructs scarcity

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Post date Jul 30, 2026
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The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.

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cybernetics

capitalism’s contradictions: why unequal access keeps the system working

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Post date Jul 30, 2026
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Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.

Tags capitalism, Complexity, control systems, cybernetics, delay, differential access, differential timing, feedback, housing, inequality, markets, ownership, political economy, scarcity, social systems, systems theory

Philosophy

Order, Entropy and the Antisymmetry of Persistence

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Post date Jul 30, 2026
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What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.

Tags antisymmetry, applied field logic, category theory, coherence, complex systems, cybernetics, entropy, feedback, logical orbit, machine-readable ontology, natural transformation, order, organised difference, persistence, possibility, relational ontology, rhythm, self-organisation, transformation

politics

adaptation: fixing aussie politics

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Post date Jun 21, 2026
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There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.

cybernetics

aristotle’s egg

Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.

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strategy

strategic incompetence

When organisations confuse confidence with competence, wealth with wisdom, and power with understanding, incompetence is no longer simply a failure of leadership but becomes one of its preferred production methods.

Tags administrative failure, business leadership, complex systems, Complexity, consequence, cybernetics, 無能, Daedelus Kite, Donald Trump, война, некомпетентность, политика, 무능, 권력, feedback, geopolitics, governance, incompetence, institutional failure, Iran war, 전략, 전쟁, 정치, 철학, leadership, leadership failure, стратегия, философия, Philosophy, philosophy of incompetence, political incompetence, political philosophy, politics, power, power and competence, reality, strategic incompetence, strategy, systems philosophy, systems theory, U.S.-Israel war with Iran, فلسفه, فلسفة, war, wealth and wisdom, 哲学, 哲學, 戦略, 戦争, 戰爭, 戰略, 政治, 权力, استراتيجية, بی‌کفایتی, جنگ, حرب, راهبرد, سياسة, سیاست, عدم الكفاءة

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Cognitive Bandwidth and the Politics of Belief

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Post date May 9, 2026
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Cognitive bandwidth becomes cultural destiny because the carrying capacity of technologically mediated communication systems exceeds the carrying capacity of the biological minds living inside them.

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