First part of a new series : A Mechanical Magistrate : (I) Overview I’ve stared work on long series of exploring git as a legal-political system, with the dual-use aim of both explaining non-technical people how software is versioned, and how it parallels established institutions, and, in the reverse direction, for software ‘engineers’ as a convoluted tour through political economy, from Marx to Graeber , so they hopefully will gain an appreciation of the intellectual insularity of their practice. unorderedrecollections.subst…

Red Alert 2: MAGA’s Revenge (part II) Politically correct satire as game design continues with the Liberal Interventionists faction. unorderedrecollections.subst…

Who will teach the new working class ?

A Possible Blame Theory of Value: On pricing responsibility in a AI inference-enabled synthetic labor-power. unorderedrecollections.subst…

Red Alert 2: MAGA’s Revenge (part I) Political satire via speculative game design. unorderedrecollections.subst…

Soylent Grim : A clumsy first attempt at an Epistemic Enclosure by VGT3 with a heavy dose of Bradbury and Harrison. unorderedrecollections.subst…

Another Kind of an Atomic Model unorderedrecollections.subst…

Pending new Substack article. The smartphone as the one device that both atomizes society while at the same time aggregates the atoms as telemetry. Telemetry ➡️ Engagement Optimization ➡️ Behavioral Conditioning.

A Sack of Knowledge and a Grain of Truth unorderedrecollections.subst…

A Schizophrenic Machine unorderedrecollections.subst…

A Quieter October Revolution unorderedrecollections.subst…

The Primitive Accumulation of Code unorderedrecollections.subst…

The Soviet Without a Program unorderedrecollections.subst…

Kritik der hyperskalar Ökonomie unorderedrecollections.subst…

Something Like an Epiphenomenon unorderedrecollections.subst…