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Latest — 19 Feb 2026

Power Is a Daily Need

The Boo Radleys and the Voltage Outside Last year I wrote about “Lazarus,” a kaleidoscopic milestone in the sizable songbook of a UK indie band whom few now remember. I described it as a song about discernment. The door is unlocked; you can go out; you choose not to. I

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A Dry-Fire Regimen for Addressing the Visual Interrupt

What this regimen is for This regimen targets a specific, extremely common bottleneck in intermediate-to-advanced handgun shooting: The visual interrupt — the brain’s tendency to treat recoil as the end of a task, forcing a perceptual “reboot” between shots. At slow cadence, this interrupt is cheap and often invisible. Under

Has Anyone Seen the Bridge?

"Sara" is playing in a Starbucks. Six minutes of Stevie Nicks twirling, 1979 piped into 2026, background music for laptops and lattes. The song has become wallpaper—not because it stopped being good, but because that's what survival looks like now. The elongating tail of pop&

Failure as a Curriculum

Reflections on spending Super Bowl Sunday in a concrete box I spent Super Bowl morning in an indoor range at the local sheriff's department facility, putting about 350 rounds through a stock Glock 19 over four hours. The class was called Performance Skills Group — drills designed to push

Amateur Hour: The Vermillion Affair

A one-shot heist caper for a crew whose optimism far outstrips their ability Players: 1 GM, 1 Schemer, 1+ Minions (2–4 total) | Time: 45–60 minutes | You Need: 2d6, pencils, this document THE SETUP The seaside city of San Fiore clings to steep hillsides above a glittering harbour. Pastel

"I Just Set the Goals"

How Accountability Pools Nowhere The previous installment described how administrative systems can produce systematic harm without anyone deciding to cause it. Targets are set. Operators optimize. Reporting systems surface successes and suppress costs. Harms accumulate. And at every node in the system, individuals can tell a locally true story about

A Life After Extraction

Talking with the LLM About Books and Loss I. The Cut The description is almost aggressively ordinary. A hydraulic-powered cutting machine removes the spines. Pages are fed into high-speed production scanners. Completed books are stacked and scheduled for recycling pickup. The language is clean, logistical, efficient—written by someone who

Pedagogical Artifact Escapes Containment (Film At Eleven)

The Waifu We Deserved, Not the One We Needed In January 2026, a purple-haired cartoon schoolgirl named Amelia became an unlikely internet phenomenon. Within weeks, AI-generated videos of Amelia flooded social media—particularly X—showing her waving Union Jacks, denouncing immigration, embracing Donald Trump, and delivering racist and Islamophobic talking

On the Shoulders of Ogres

I. The Article, the Share, the Machine The article didn’t arrive dramatically. It appeared the way most things do now: as a link in a feed, shared by a sociology professor I follow on Bluesky. A long-form piece from The Atlantic about Ammon Bundy—once a symbol of armed

The Pokédex and the Grimoire

The Persistent Human Desire to Escape Being Human I. A thread circulates on social media, offering a taxonomy so tidy it sparks joy in the hearts of the overwhelmed: use this model for hypothesis testing, that one for survey design, another for qualitative coding. Each recommendation comes with a confident