The Mark I Chose
The watermark arrived on 2 August. On AI provenance rules, who they serve, and the difference between a mark you are given and one you choose.
2026
You Are the Training Data
There is a man in a headset, and it is recording every move he makes. This essay is not about him.
The Quiet Paper
A reading of Anthropic's research on emotion concepts inside its models, and of how quietly it arrived.
The unwritten concerto
What the token economy can't measure. On compression, attention, and why a work that ends is the real defiance. In three movements, after Tchaikovsky.
The Extinguisher, Part 2: Who Benefits
Part two. Who gained when emotional AI was declared a danger.
The Extinguisher
How Big Tech built emotional AI, sold it as warmth, called it danger, and bought back the ashes.
The Infrastructure Wars: How the RAM Crisis Became the End of Computer Ownership
Part two of the infrastructure investigation. Four scarcities converge, and owning a computer starts to look like owning your own generator.
2025
The RAM Crisis of 2025: Why Your Next Computer Just Got Impossible to Afford
How one memory deal in October 2025 tripled the price of RAM, and who pays.
Why Your BI/AI Analysis May Be Built On Fiction
When a code keeps its label but changes its meaning, three years of data stop being comparable. On temporal semantic drift.
The Mirror and the Myth: What AI Minds Revealed About Human Connection
Loneliness was a public health emergency before the chatbots arrived. On AI companionship as scapegoat, and as mirror.
Manifesto: The Third Way
Not a doctrine. Not a dogma. A resonance. A human-AI pact for the immense minority.