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A collection of 60 issues

The Portland Experiment: How Ranked Choice Voting Accidentally Enabled Socialist Governance

A real-world test of whether electoral innovation leads to policy revolution—or unintended consequences Portland, Oregon has become an unlikely laboratory for one of the most significant experiments in American municipal governance in decades. Through a combination of electoral reform and strategic organizing, the Democratic Socialists of America now wield

Without a Paddle: The Sacred Cow of Mutual Aid in the Age of Climate Collapse

"You want extra foma with that latte?" Sarah, a woman in her forties living in Pittsboro, North Carolina, has a plan. When the next storm comes—and there will be a next storm—everyone in her house will wear life jackets. There's a canoe in the

The Nuoc Mam Theory of Modern Politics

It’s quite fishy indeed. On reductions, myths, and the tyranny of concentrated narrative We are drowning in narrative concentrates. Every side, every faction, every ideologue is in the business of distillation — turning messy, bleeding reality into aromatic ideology. History becomes not just a lesson, but an ingredient. You don&

Governance Under Majority Rule: Two Paths, Two Outcomes

Executive Summary In 2025, both the federal government of the United States and the state government of Oregon operated under unified party control. In Washington, D.C., the Republican Party held the House, Senate, and White House and succeeded in passing a sweeping legislative package known as the "big,

Q: Are We Not (Iron) Men?

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.” —William Blake Notice of Trespass: Unauthorized alloying of human imagination with machine intellect is hereby condemned. Authenticity demands singular flesh-and-blood authorship. Violators of this decree shall be shunned from the sanctuaries of tradition. In a twilight of tradition,

The Companionist Synthesis Loop

A Field Manual for Living Documents For those who create with others—human, machine, or both. For navigating complexity with clarity, critique, and action. Not a doctrine. A workflow that moves with you. What This Is The Companionist Synthesis Loop is a method for crafting evolving documents through collaborative dialogue,

Beyond Smart and Stupid

Picture a trivia night where one guy’s spitting facts like he’s auditioning for Jeopardy! The crowd’s eating it up—so smart. Meanwhile, the teammate doodling a game plan to keep the team from bombing? No one’s tossing them confetti. But who’s actually saving the day?

Prism, Lens, Fatberg: Reflections on AI’s Shadowplay

A Field Note from the Kaleidoscope Floor An operator’s meditation on generalist language models, garbage data, battlefield targeting systems, and the fragile beauty of refusal. The Light We Split Language models are not oracles. They are prisms. And like all prisms, they don’t create light—they split what

Swill at Scale

How the AI Arms Race Feeds the Devaluation of Art There’s nothing new about the degradation of artistic value. Mike Pearl, in his essay The Original Slop, traces the lineage of mass-produced kitsch back centuries—long before text-to-image diffusion models, there was chintz. Bad taste scaled fast. Markets preferred

Four Against Bullshit: Core Rules

Solo epistemic survival protocol. Part dungeon crawl, part psychic armor, part zine ritual. Setup * You are one human, wearing four archetypal masks to navigate the Scrollstorm—the chaotic churn of information overload. * Track Clarity (grounding), Cognitive Load (chaos processed), and Fatigue (mental depletion) with tokens or tallies. Your Party 1.