23 Sep 2026
America's Promise
Money, power, and the world that keeps the account. The companion column to Currency.
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America's Promise
Money, power, and the world that keeps the account. A companion to Currency, Series 2 · Volume 2 of Causality and Attraction.
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12 Sep 2026
AI On the Shoulders of Giants — Dostoevsky’s The Idiot — September 12th
A three-chapter literary reimagining of the September 11 investigation after an AI reading of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot.
11 Sep 2026
The Investigation Enters its 26th Year
Two complete traversals across the evidence, followed by the annual work of dressing a wound the world still experiences.
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Imagine This
Private imagination, generative image moderation, artistic agency, and responsibility at the boundary of publication.
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The Harvest Economy
How a recurring cybercrime market grows from the digital trust American institutions rebuild each morning.
02 Sep 2026
What Will Not Be Televised
International news, UCDP, V-Dem, population health, NewsBoob, and the real War Maps Project.
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America Invented the Computer. Then It Outlawed Learning How It Breaks.
How computer law changed who could safely learn the systems America built.
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A Continuum of Cognitive States
Attention, agency, learning, state transitions, and deliberate return.
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A Volunteer to Exemplify the Problem
Approval, exposure, evidence, and informed consent in medical research.
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Approval Is Not Exposure: A Draft Across the Boundary
A draft on drug safety, accumulated human exposure, and regulatory language.
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Rather Than Looking for Work
Writing, scale boundaries, and doing the work before deciding where it fits.
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08 Jul 2026
Sustained Departures From “The Idiot”
A NotebookLM experiment crossing Sid’s work with Dostoevsky.
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09 Aug 2026
Causality and Attraction, Volume IX: The Hacker
Computational power, computer law, security research, and surveillance.
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