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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

Debord Aboard

In exaggerated French accent: "I told you zees! Ze society of ze spectacle, she eez not just theory - she eez your LIFE now! You silly Americans with your warehouse cathedral worship!" "Zees eez exactly what I said! Ze commodity becomes ze social relationship! You think you

Debord Overboard: Storyboard and Script

Storyboard Each frame is described with visual details, camera angles, and transitions to guide the animation process. The style is hand-drawn, vibrant, with exaggerated proportions and expressive character design typical of Chuck Jones. Title Card * Frame 1: Distressed Marxist red background, textured like cracked paint. Center: Black silhouette of Guy