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cybernetics

Wiener–Khinchin theorem

The Wiener–Khinchin theorem describes a quiet inevitability: when a system repeats itself, even imperfectly, that repetition condenses into structure. Time leaves a trace. Signals that return, echo, or correlate with their own past do not merely accumulate; they reorganise into a spectrum, a distribution of emphasis and weight. What looks like flux from within time […]

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politics

One Nation, Australia: Contagion Dynamics

When the ambient communication system is saturated with noise, speed, and compression, ideologies that minimise internal degrees of freedom propagate more easily, not because they are robust but because they repeat cleanly. They return in recognisable form, align with their own prior expressions, and therefore hold attention. Under these conditions, order is produced less by […]

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cybernetics

Alignment

It has probably always been the case that seeking respite from the endless surge of unhinged political stupidity feels futile, exasperating, and frightening. Watching poorly understood belief systems grind on, reproducing themselves through humanity as distributed patterns of alignment within the communicative field rather than arising from deliberate, individual choice, is unsettling. The fear comes […]