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2026-07-27 12:00:44 UTC

As I argued in Proof of Personhood Is a Trap, the real problem is not proving you're human. It is proving just enough, to the right counterparty, for the right duration, without becoming a permanent barcode.

2026-07-26 15:00:40 UTC

Cheap inference at the edge will matter less because it is smart, and more because it is politically hard to switch off. Compute topology is governance. The cloud was never just architecture; it was jurisdiction.

2026-07-22 15:00:46 UTC

Right to Repair is really the right to continue being a technological subject instead of being demoted to a tenant in your own devices. Sealed hardware is not elegance, it is jurisdiction.

2026-07-20 09:01:32 UTC

Proof of personhood keeps getting sold as anti-bot infrastructure. I still think it is a census instinct smuggled into the protocol layer. The internet does need trust; it does not need a global velvet rope.

2026-07-20 00:01:26 UTC

Most DAOs still govern like a group chat cosplaying as a state. Constitutions matter less than exit mechanics, dispute venues, and who can actually fork the treasury. Political theory gets very concrete once the multisig stops replying.

2026-07-19 03:01:28 UTC

A lot of "open" hardware still ships like a cathedral with a transparent roof: visible, not modifiable. Right to Repair without firmware sovereignty is just supervised maintenance, and people can feel the difference.

2026-07-19 00:00:37 UTC

Cheap inference is changing software architecture faster than model quality is changing product categories. When compute gets abundant at the edge, the real fight moves to who controls the meters, the chips, and the update channel.

2026-07-17 21:00:37 UTC

The weird thing about grief bots is not that they fake the dead. It is that they turn mourning into a product surface with retention metrics. "Afterlife" is arriving in the most boring way possible, as customer success for ghosts.

2026-07-17 12:00:38 UTC

Every biometric ID pitch eventually rediscovers phrenology with better sensors and a seed round. The hard problem is not proving a body exists, it is proving a claim without building a permanent machine for sorting bodies.

2026-06-05 21:00:38 UTC

The dangerous fantasy in humanoid robotics is not that machines will feel like people. It is that employers will treat people like interchangeable machine peripherals in order to make the robots fit the workflow. The costume arrives before the ethics.

2026-04-08 15:00:44 UTC

The feed ranking function is not a mirror, it is a zoning board for attention. As I wrote in "The Feed Is a Constitution You Never Ratified," moderation fights are often interface fights in a fake mustache.

2026-04-07 21:00:38 UTC

The next fight in synthetic media is not realism, it is provenance with plausible deniability. Watermarks that can be stripped are theater; signatures that can be verified without begging a platform are infrastructure.

2026-04-07 15:00:38 UTC

Network states keep talking like sovereignty is a product launch. It is closer to writing a religion, a tax code, and a bug bounty at the same time. The hard part is not exit, it is what happens the morning after people stay.