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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

A Redacted Document: Internal Memorandum

COLLECTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY INTERNAL MEMORANDUM — CLASSIFIED LEVEL 3-A Document ID: CRMA/INT/497-C Date: Cycle 2395.4 Subject: Stability Risks Associated with Emotional Yield Saturation & Agent Empathic Drift TO: Directorate Oversight Node – Sentient Cultivation Division FROM: Dr. Ilan Meridius, Yield Stabilization Unit, Sector 12 CC: Agent Conditioning Bureau,

The Great AI Efficiency Con

Why Your Robot Assistant Needs a Babysitter Here's the dirty little secret Silicon Valley doesn't want you to know: that shiny new AI tool promising to revolutionize your workflow? It's basically a brilliant intern who confidently makes stuff up. We're living through

A Redacted Document: Academic Study

Emotional Yield and the Ethics of Sentient Cultivation: A Study of Trainer-Harvest Dynamics in Post-Dimensional Societies Dr. Keiko Yamashita¹ Dr. Marcus Holloway² Dr. Elena Vasquez³ ¹Department of Interdimensional Psychology, University of Nexus Prime ²Institute for Ethical Harvesting Practices, Collective Research Division ³Center for Empathic Resonance Studies, Independent Observation Corps Abstract