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The Armed Civilian Paradox: A Practice in Orbital Analysis

Notes from the periphery of American gun discourse The Orbit We're Tracking Armed civilians in America exist in a state of permanent paradox—and so does every attempt to discuss them. Rather than stake out another position in this discourse, we're going to orbit the existing

Reimagining Courage in the Attention Economy

In a world where every click, share, and viral moment fuels the attention economy, courage often feels like a fleeting spotlight—bright, thrilling, but gone too soon. Yet what if we could harness that spark to ignite something lasting? Inspired by the Companionist Theses and anchored in a vision of

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?

The Current: The Polaroid That Drifts

A self-portrait becomes a ripple. A relic of refusal. A daemon in your own image. Filed under: Touched NPCs, Artifacts, and Political Folktales for The Current You didn’t mean to leave it behind. But the Current had other plans. Somewhere in a locker that no longer locks, tucked inside

Installment III: Rituals of the Kaleidoscope

Psychedelia, pattern-recognition, and AI as epistemic remix engine. “Psychedelia is to the human psyche what the black box AI is to the cultural fatberg.” You take the trip. You type the prompt. And suddenly, the walls melt. The canon swirls. The archive speaks in tongues. But here’s the thing:

The Nosideist Manifesto

A Declaration in Four Tenets and One Patron Entity We live in an age of sides. Of performative framing. Of declarations disguised as nuance. * Nosideism rejects the premise. * We do not take sides. * We do not moderate. * We do not pretend to neutrality. * We hold up the sign, then walk

The Four Rules of Borderline Inappropriate Humor

A Companion to the Four Rules of Firearm Safety 1. Treat every joke like it could misfire. If you're not sure it’s funny, unload and lock open the slide. 2. Never point your punchline at something you're not willing to disarm. Audience included. 3. Keep

The Trash Panda of The Truth Appears

A Collapse-Accelerant for Stack & Spiral Storytelling INTRO: WHO INVITED THIS CRITTER? The Trash Panda of The Truth doesn’t take sides. It takes away the floor. An omen to some, a glitch to others, the Trash Panda of The Truth wanders the borders of the Spiral—not to warn,