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The Intrepid

Look What Got Flattened in the Mail

On Numbers, Portability, and What Survives the Slot My wife subscribes to the Tate museum's membership magazine. It arrives from London in a protective envelope—or it's supposed to. The last issue emerged from its transatlantic voyage looking like it had been fed through a shredder.

The Auditors Are Here

A game of hostile audits in a retro-futuristic bureaucratic dystopia You're compromised consultants hired to expose corruption in The City—a concrete labyrinth where ghost labor powers computers, demons manage corporations, and surveillance cameras forget constantly. Gather evidence, turn witnesses, and escape before the truth is buried forever.

When the Holy Fools Leave the Stage

Young bones groan And the rocks below say “Throw your skinny body down, son” — The Smiths "Shakespeare's Sister" I. Opening: The Question Nobody Builds For Many cultural and political systems depend on people who could leave, but don't. People with jobs that offer paid

To All the Guns I’ve Shot Before: Palmetto State Armory Dagger Micro

The story of this gun begins, as so many questionable decisions do, with a ballot measure. Oregon Ballot Measure 114 passed by a sliver, promising a permit-to-purchase regime and a ban on magazines holding more than ten rounds. As of January 11, 2026, it remains unenforced—blocked by a judge

Unmarketable by Design

Accounting for a Disappearing Network Movietone, Crescent, and the wider Bristol post-rock network were not simply “good bands from a cool scene.” They were proof that, briefly — very briefly — a particular alignment of economic, social, and infrastructural conditions made it possible for unmarketable music to exist without having to justify

AI, Agents, and Readiness

A Systems Perspective from Operations This document captures a set of observations and framing developed through recent discussions, vendor briefings, and lived operational experience. It is not an argument for or against AI adoption. Rather, it is an attempt to clearly articulate where we are, what kind of work we

Cantrips

Cantrips, by Buddha on the Moon2 track albumBuddha on the MoonBandcamp New & Notable Jul 10, 2025 Cantrips and Tails “Cantrips and Tails” began as a synthesizer squiggle, a throwaway line made during a lull at work using an iPad app I no longer remember. It was paired with a

The Parallel Ledger

What an AI investment outlook reveals about the architecture of financial comfort There's a temptation to read an investment advisor's macro email as either right or wrong, bullish or bearish, insightful or bland. But that misses what the document actually is. An advisor–investor communiqué is

The Smoke and What Follows

The bodies won't stand. In N.C. Wyeth's Gunfight, painted in 1916, four men occupy a saloon interior in what should be a moment of Western heroism. But there's no clear geometry to the violence. No upright victor. One man's knees are

In Search of Spaces and a Disappearing Act

Flying Saucer Attack don't really enter the room. They're already there when you notice them. Their records don't announce a position or propose a future. They don't feel like interventions. They feel like something that was happening anyway, and happened to be