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cybernetics

Dissent: Another War

Resistance to war is easy to respect and hard to execute, because the same communicative channels that allow objection also convert that objection into a commercially and strategically manageable signal. A manageable signal is one whose form, timing, and intensity are already accounted for by the systems that receive it. It can be measured, narrated, […]

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Philosophy

Structural Insecurity Precedes Moral Failure

Racism, misogyny, and other forms of exclusion recur not because they are compelling, justified, or desirable, but because large-scale social systems are biased toward generating them, or things like them, under stress. Calling this structural does not mean denying choice. People do make choices, good, bad, and ugly, and they live with the consequences of […]