politics

Emergence Is an Excuse: Toward a Forensic Ethics of System Design

When systemic harm is repeated, profitable, and structured, complexity is not an explanation. It’s an alibi.

Apr 26 •

Pretending Is Half the Job

You’re looped in once the decisions are made—asked to “help it land,” not to change it. You learn to turn harm into “alignment,” risk into “tone.” It…

Apr 25 •

The Amnesia Engine

How institutions metabolize critique, erase context, and make crisis their only teacher

Apr 24 •

Seemingly Neutral Systems

Why neutrality isn’t fairness—and what it hides when institutions say it is.

Apr 23 •

Frictionless for Whom?

Seamlessness isn’t always neutral. It’s often subsidized—by someone else’s time, attention, and emotional capacity.

Apr 20 •

Catastrophe Bonds: How Wall Street Prices Our Disasters

Every hurricane season the ritual repeats: a governor steps to the mic, announces billions “secured on the capital markets,” and declares the state…

Apr 19 •

What The News Could Be

You open your phone to check the news; twenty minutes later you’re overstimulated and underinformed.

Apr 18 •

Emergent Universality vs Top-Down Healthcare

While conventional thinking holds that only big bureaucracies can deliver universal healthcare, anarchist practices illustrate a very different path…

Apr 6 •

"Why Can’t They Just Die Already?"

Why Waiting for Boomers to Disappear Won’t Save Us

Apr 4 •

Is Honesty an Expensive Hobby?

When does cunning becomes a strategic choice? Or, why are shitty people so wealthy?

Apr 3 •

Refusability is the Future of Design

Why “No” Makes Every “Yes” More Real

Apr 2 •

Will the World Deserve Our Kids?

We Grew Up Asking If We’d Get To Have Kids. Now We’re Asking If We Even Should.

Mar 30 •

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