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Darkness, darkness, enveloping darkness - on grief & hope as dark twins, millennial nostalgia, and what comes next
An unedited stream of consciousness essay hammered out at midnight.
Jan 9
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SORRY (not sorry) - but I owe you some reading (my emails weren't sending)
Everything is a hot mess
Jan 8
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Divination & derivatives: Cardano and the Bloomberg Terminal (how financial models are just horoscopes, pt. 2)
The inventor of probability got investigated by the Inquisition for casting Jesus Christ's horoscope. On the structural kinship between natal charts and…
Jan 7
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Getting Into Bed With Defense Tech: An NDA
Do you know what your Twitter mutual is doing at 2am in someone else's bed? A disclosure of disclosures and agreements broken
Jan 3
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December 2025
Divination & derivatives: the Iron Condor and the Celtic Cross (how options strategies are just like tarot, pt. 1)
A Christmas catastrophe, a derivatives explainer, and why your Bloomberg terminal is basically a tarot deck. Or - on the structural kinship between…
Dec 28, 2025
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The spy who loved the D (système) & GPT: when the CIA absorbs too much French work culture
In which an American spy absorbs too much French work culture, decides foreign agent registration is not for him, and asks ChatGPT to apologize on his…
Dec 26, 2025
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An American bleeding on Blvd. St. Germain: the uncensored 1st chapter of my Paris memoir
The next great American novel this is not, but I've dug up a long forgotten draft (unedited, in its original form, added onto). My life in Paris was a…
Dec 25, 2025
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The Techno-Slopulence Manifesto
A response to the Techno-Optimist Manifesto, written in the Year of Our Lord Slop as 2025 ends
Dec 23, 2025
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Performative mails: when the Frankfurt School DMs a VC
Why 'DM me' is a trap in venture capital when the Frankfurt School goes to Sand Hill Road/Herbert Marcuse’s work on the one-dimensional man, repressive…
Dec 21, 2025
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From Russia with bolt cutters: the nepobaby who fled Italy, hid in the Balkans, and evaded Task Force KleptoCapture
Boris Bourne makes his film debut as the governor’s son who cut off his ankle monitor with bolt cutters and escaped, much to the lament of Task Force…
Dec 16, 2025
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When Eric Cartman worked for Blackwater & signed for 200 missing AK-47s in Kabul
In which the Pentagon, South Park, and Blackwater guest star in an imports export violation costing over 42 million dollars and several lives
Dec 6, 2025
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China girl, pt. 6 (finale): the AI reckoning of America's future
Or: the conclusion to a six-part series on how China mobilizes women while America excludes them, and why AI governance is where we either learn the…
Dec 5, 2025
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