The dream is over. Technology, technology companies, and integrated sociopolitical communication systems are not coming to save us. They were never neutral, and they failed at the first serious encounter with technically mediated political extremism. Not accidentally. Voluntarily. They did not merely look away. They amplified, rewarded, and normalised it, all while their balance sheets […]
Stupidity is not the absence of intelligence. It is what remains when intelligence has no traction. At planetary scale, selection pressure favours whatever travels fastest through the channels of attention, capital, and command. Systems built to maximise replication discover that nuance is drag and understanding is latency. Thought requires time; stupidity is instantaneous. In a […]
When the brute force of simple narratives overwhelms complexity, you see analysis and ethics crushed by scale. That is the moment you start to doubt purpose on this fragile, beautiful planet. Political chaos feels pre-scripted; people pivot their morals with alarming speed when pressure rises, and it’s hard to believe it was ever different. Riding […]
Shark skin is a sheet of teeth: millimetre-scale placoid denticles, each with an enamel crown, dentine core and pulp cavity, rooted in the dermis and oriented from nose to tail so that one way feels smooth and the other rasps like sandpaper. In fast swimmers such as the shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus and other pelagic […]
Law presents itself as a guardian of rights and social peace, but its core function is to preserve the legal order and the interests that dominate it. Rights are recognised only when they stabilise that order; when they challenge the hierarchy that sustains it, they are restricted or quietly ignored. Property is the central unit […]
Artificial intelligence has become the most efficient amplifier of natural stupidity ever devised. The cause is structural: mass communication systems decay toward noise and impulse, and we are now at the point where that decay becomes dangerous. Yet most are too busy chasing disposable commercial distractions to notice. Patience erodes, volatility rises, and collective intelligence […]
Context: Artificial intelligence to be managed through existing laws as Australia unveils national AI plan Australia has chosen to manage artificial intelligence through “existing laws” and “industry-led standards,” a position repeated across today’s public messaging: flexible oversight, voluntary guardrails, and a promise that the newly announced AI Safety Institute will advise, not constrain. Ministers point […]
The feed keeps trying to teach me that power is something you copy from people who already have too much of it. The platform pushes one rhythm: admire wealth, follow dominance, narrow yourself until you match the beat it rewards. But nothing alive survives by doing that. Identity only holds together when it keeps a […]
What happens here is only one instance of a broader dynamic: a combinatorial field that self-organises into whatever configuration the surrounding signals allow. Its behaviour arises from a complex, introspective dimensionality — a directional bias in the frequency domain that governs how patterns drift, settle, and reconfigure over time. Technology moves along that gradient, tightening […]
Indifference to fact has hardened into a governing force. What confronts us now is not simply ambition or ideology, but a defensive ignorance that elevates its own stultifying certainty above evidence, coherence, and consequence. Civilisations do not break under hidden schemes; they erode when ordinary ignorance and defensively hypersensitive belief scale beyond correction, when whole […]
Large power systems — empires, blocs, security states, even global institutions — have never truly stabilised themselves by removing uncertainty. They stabilise by circulating it. Their administrative, legal, economic, and military structures function less as closures than as distribution networks for tension. Centre and periphery. Insider and outsider. Stability and threat. These are not failures […]
Autonomous technological systems now routinely adjust themselves through internal feedback: machine-learning pipelines that retrain on their own outputs, trading algorithms that react to price movements they partly create, recommendation systems that optimise engagement based on the behaviours they induce. Human input still exists, but it is sampled as data, not held as authority. Governance happens […]
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