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Philosophy

Diminishing Returns

I am withdrawing from almost all U.S.-based digital subscriptions; soon, all. This is not a symbolic gesture or an act of ideological theatre. It is a practical decision grounded in observation. Platform governance is converging with corporate and political power into a single operational field, where economic alignment determines visibility, legitimacy, and survival. The architecture […]

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cybernetics

Why an Autocratic Turn is Catastrophic

An autocratic turn accelerates self-destructive collapse not because it is immoral, but because it forces a distributed system into a shape it cannot sustain. Short-term unity is purchased by suppressing variation, and the centre begins to confuse resistance with disobedience rather than information about system limits. Feedback from courts, states, agencies, markets, and elections is […]