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A Ledgered Meal: Paqui, Portland

We’ve lived in the neighborhood nearly a decade and have seen this corner go through many identities—brewpubs, fusion experiments—but Paqui feels like a genuine arrival. It’s not trying to dazzle with reinvention or nostalgia. Instead, it offers something more rare: memory rendered with clarity and care.

A Redacted Document: Shutdown Directive

COLLECTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN DIRECTIVE — AUTOPHAGIC PROTOCOL CLASSIFICATION: OMEGA-BLACK — EXISTENTIAL CONTAINMENT Document ID: CRMA/EMERGENCY/SHUTDOWN-001 Date: Cycle 2396.2 Authorization: Supreme Directorate Emergency Powers Act Triggering Event: CASCADE EMPATHIC BREACH - CRITICAL MASS ACHIEVED IMMEDIATE EXECUTIVE ORDER ALL CULTIVATION OPERATIONS SUSPENDED ALL PARADISE ENVIRONMENTS SEALED ALL PERSONNEL

Mutual Aid, the 2025 Remastered Edition

So, I’m in City Lights, that San Francisco shrine to beatnik rebellion, now a hipster book shop for bourgeois radicals cosplaying dissent. There’s Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), a 2020 call-to-arms, sitting on the “Praxis” shelf like a $14.95

Oregon's Transportation Crisis

A Case Study in Supermajority Governance Challenges Executive Summary Oregon's 2025 transportation funding crisis offers insights into the governance dynamics that can emerge when a single party holds overwhelming legislative control. Despite holding supermajorities in both chambers and receiving years of advance warning about a structural funding shortfall,

Mojo within the Limit

Five Modes of Constraint in the Age of Abundant Music I. Introduction: The Age of the Skip In the algorithmic present, music lives or dies in six seconds. On TikTok, that window is the difference between obscurity and virality. On Spotify, it’s the length of a skip-rate metric. Hooks

Constraint, Converged: One Night in Houston

It’s 2006 in Houston, and the evening air hums with the strange promise of resonance. Nameless Sound, the city’s quietly radical nonprofit for experimental music and improvisation, is hosting a concert at the Friends Meeting House—a Quaker space of radical stillness designed by James Turrell, where light

A Redacted Document: Ethics Hearing

COLLECTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY ETHICS HEARING TRANSCRIPT — CLASSIFIED LEVEL 4-Ω Document ID: CRMA/ETH/2395-117 Date: Cycle 2395.8 Location: Directorate Central Complex, Sublevel 7-C Classification: MAXIMUM SECURITY - EMPATHIC BREACH CONTAINMENT HEARING PANEL: * Administrator Vex-Prime, Oversight Node (Presiding) * Director Yuki Tanaka, Personnel Integrity Division * Dr. Marcus Chen, Cultivation Ethics

Aging Minds, Accelerating Machines

Rethinking AI and Cognitive Decline We often talk about AI as a competitor to human intelligence. But what if it’s not just replacing human brilliance—but quietly compensating for our natural decline? Recent research suggests that in cognitively demanding professions, mental performance often begins to plateau or subtly decline

Debord: The Spectacle Eats Itself

A TiGGR two-shot “adventure” where Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle meets Duck Amuck in a surreal Costco. A cartoonish critique of late capitalism where every rebellion becomes quirky content. TiGGR Quick Rules Components: 2d6, pencil, paper, optional LLM Players: 2-5 (1 GM, 1-4 players) Playtime: 30-45 min

Skeptic’s Checklist for AI-Generated Sources & Interpretations

A tool for epistemic vigilance in the age of confident machines. I. Source Integrity Do the citations actually exist? ‣ Search titles, DOIs, or URLs—are they real, accessible, and relevant? Are the sources credible for the topic? ‣ Peer-reviewed journal, institutional website, domain expert? Or low-signal content farm? Are links live