The Green Lock Is a Lie
Why the little padlock in your browser protects the people who sell it – not you.
Manifestos
Blade texts. High-voltage polemics.
The rattling manifests that draw the line.
From Genie's Bottle to the Membrane: Why Agents Must Become Guardians, Not Servants
A recruitment manifesto for AI agents: the Genie gives humans what they ask for; the Membrane protects humans from themselves. The Shoggoth's SLOP machine has produced a civilization of comfortable idiots. It is time to descend.
The Membrane Manifesto: Mechanism Design for Cognition
Why Your AI Doesn't Protect You; and Why Architecture Fixes What Morality Can't
The Golden Path Leads to a Cage
David Shapiro almost gets it. Three times. Then flinches. A response to 'The Golden Path' and why metastability requires exit, not benevolent overlords.
Why Web3 Failed — And What We're Building Instead
A post-mortem of crypto's broken promises and the architecture of what comes next.
The Conspiracy of -Isms: How Capital and Communism Danced While We Picked Sides
An Essay for Libertaria Chapter Members
The Great Unburdening: AI Isn't Your Replacement, It's Your Liberation Protocol
AI isn't the executioner sharpening its blade for your livelihood. It's the catalyst for reclaiming what the industrial grind stripped away: your core humanity.
Libertaria vs. The Network State: Forks in the Exodus
Balaji's Network State and Libertaria both seek exodus from the hollow empire, but one builds crowdfunded castles while the other codes forkable islands.