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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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cybernetics

Meaning: Uncertainty Disco

Meaning does not exist in words, ideas, or intentions taken in isolation. It arises from a relational system in which elements acquire significance only through their differences from one another over time. Words are defined by other words; references defer to further references; interpretation always lags expression. That lag is not an accident or a […]

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cybernetics

Service Delivery: Delay Is the Control Parameter

Executive summary Delay is not a flaw to be engineered away. It is the control parameter that sets a system’s operating frequency. Most complex organisational and institutional service delivery systems tend to fail when their timing is misaligned with the realities they are intended to regulate. That misalignment is rarely visible as a single “slow […]

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2026 Technocracy: More Control, Less Comprehension

We are likely worrying about the wrong thing. The danger is not that AI amplifies stupidity, volatility, selfishness, or ideological corruption. The danger is the speed of that amplification, the smoothness with which it integrates into ordinary life, and the ease with which this acceleration is framed as inevitable. It is not inevitable. But velocity […]