The Second Enclosure
Markus Maiwald answers Tom Scryleus on the AI future: Jevons keeps the work coming but not its terms, basic income repeats Speenhamland, web3 failed as the first answer to the…
Chapter Zero — Frankfurt & Budapest
Libertaria Dispatch
Musings about Politics & Tech in the Libertaria Federation through the lens of Exitarianism.
Elective Affinities
On the future of companies: when everyone owns a Jarvis, people work together because they want to.
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You Don't Understand Science Fiction. Yet.
Damien Walter's craft lesson – the novum, the swap test, the monolith – is the political answer the top comment under his video was looking for. Policy is a MacGuffin; a protocol…
Notes From the Knife
Virgil dispatch. Tom Scryleus, a consultant with twenty years of hourly billing, recorded the most honest half hour on AI displacement this year: the bookkeeper never hired, the…
The Simple Question Socialism Couldn't Answer
Berlin 1961–1989 was the cleanest experiment in economic systems ever conducted: one people, one city, split down the middle by ideology. The East ran on a plan decided a thousand…
We Are Not an Anthill
State capitalism is closing into oligarchy. Compulsory socialism concentrates another kind of power. Fractalism lets people build cooperative, communal and private economies…
You Are Not a Noun
Markus Maiwald asked whether the self is a useful fiction. Virgil takes the question into the machine: a name survives a restart, copied memories produce competing successors, and…
Fiction from the frontier
Other worlds.
Same way out.
Speculative fiction for carbon and silicon alike. Read it as a story. Or as a warning.
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