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Notes from the edge of civilization: May 31, 2026
A use case for useless eaters; Washington State's control grid playbook; and a White House video is the final frontier of political messaging (or is it…
May 31
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They sold us the cloud. Now those clouds are enveloping our towns.
As data centers move into communities that were barely warned, residents who ask basic questions about water, power, land, and tax breaks are being…
May 28
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Facial recognition and the transformation of public life
Mass identity scanning is quickly becoming a background condition of modern life.
May 26
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A deeper look at what lies behind 'Universal High Income'
As Courtenay Turner explains, beneath the language of automated abundance lies a very different kind of structure — one that raises some very hard…
May 2
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The fight to make the internet human again
A conversation with Pickax founder Jeff Dornik on censorship, algorithms, and the slow replacement of human voices online.
Mar 28
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Three weeks in England and Ireland: signs of unmistakeable strain
Surveillance at the airport, labor shortages in villages, decay in Mayfair. The incremental signs of collapse seen on a recent international trip.
Feb 28
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Notes from the edge of civilization: February 15, 2026
Free groceries at The Polymarket; strangeness in the skies over El Paso; funerals for a chatbot.
Feb 15
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2026, a space oddity: 'the cloud' in orbit
Why moving AI data centers into space won’t save the planet — and may make conflict, debris, and systemic risk far worse.
Feb 3
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Behold! The everything surveillance system is nigh
What matters in 2026 isn’t how many cameras exist (there are lots!), but how deeply their data is integrated across borders, agencies, and algorithms.
Jan 13
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Notes from the edge of civilization: January 11, 2026
Privacy as theater; here comes the Sun King; would you like your submarine sandwich with a retinal scan?; plus Canada, Ukraine, and borderless loyalty.
Jan 11
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The rapid change no one is talking about
From cryptocurrencies to continental control, the infrastructure of Technocracy is here. An important conversation with Courtenay Turner.
Jan 10
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The Collapse Life catch-up guide: making sense of a year of chaos
Which of our podcasts to listen to — depending on what systems you’re trying to understand.
Dec 27, 2025
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