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Just Fucking Think.
One of my biggest triggers is watching people consume information without thinking about it. They read something.They watch something.AI gives them an answer. And that’s it. It becomes truth. It irritates the shit out of me. And I’ve asked myself why it bothers me so...
It Always Boils Down to the Human Being
The Epstein story raises a much bigger question than who knew whom, who appears in which file, or which intelligence theory eventually proves true. It raises the question of human vulnerability and power. A democracy can have elections, constitutions, institutions,...
Stop Looking for the Next Mamdani
Something interesting happens when a new political figure starts gaining attention. We immediately ask: Who are they like? So when someone like Abdul El-Sayed or James Talarico gains momentum, the instinct is to compare them to Zohran Mamdani. And on the surface, it...
Stop Interrupting Me While I’m Trying to Buy From You
I’m a visual buyer. Instagram gets me. I see something, it catches my eye, I click, and suddenly I’m on a website looking at a product I didn’t know existed five minutes ago. Fine. Marketing worked. Now get out of my way. Because one of the fastest ways to lose me is...
Unplugged: What One Country’s AI Kill Switch Reveals About All of Us
On a Friday evening in June 2026, the most capable AI models on the planet went dark. Not because they failed. Not because a company changed its mind. Because the US Department of Commerce sent a letter, and a private company in San Francisco had forty-eight hours to...
Writing on the Wall
When the people building the most powerful technology in human history start buying the silence of those meant to govern it, we should all be paying attention. Most of us aren't. John O'Farrell left Andreessen Horowitz in May. He was the firm's first outside general...
AI Governance Weekly: The Week of May 29, 2026
The Pope Enters the Room -- and He Comes With 42,000 WordsThe most talked-about AI governance development this week did not come from a legislature or a regulatory body. On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released his first major papal teaching document, a 42,300-word encyclical...
The Shell Problem
Strip away the shell and we are startlingly identical. Narcissism, empathy, grief, ambition, shame, love – these do not belong to any race, gender, nationality, or religion. They are the human operating system, running the same core code across every population on...
Curiosity Is the Prompt
I use AI. I'll be upfront about that. I'm also fully aware of what that means: the data annotators working in difficult conditions, the communities whose voices are underrepresented or outright missing from the training data, the structural exclusions baked into the...