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cybernetics

Merry Griftmas

Across the United States, and increasingly across comparable political systems, authoritarian grift has consolidated with remarkable speed. It is disproportionately financed, protected, and normalised by extreme concentrations of wealth. The alignment is not driven by ideological sophistication, intelligence, or long-term strategy. It is driven by extraction. Ultra-rich actors pursue deregulation, tax minimisation, labour suppression, and […]

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Peace

Compassion

Life is difficult for everyone, in different ways, at different times. We exist as partially individuated selves, each with a limited point of view, shaped by desire, belief, hope, and fear, often without reflection. Language gives form to this condition, allowing meaning to emerge while also carrying the weight of suffering. To be a self […]

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Psychology

Vanishing Point: Self-ish

The self is commonly understood as something one has: a centre of experience, a point of view, a continuous “me” that persists through time. Psychological models tend to formalise this intuition by treating the self as a representational structure—narrative continuity, minimal experiential core, or predictive model—through which coherence can be maintained. This move is not […]