Category: The Bonzo Diaries
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The Phantom’s Revenge
ACT I: ARRIVAL & THE PERFORMANCE. They invited me to Santa Monica, to the clean, well-lighted prison of culture called The Broad Stage. The mission: to bear witness to a “subsidized art opera,” a thing of fair quality and certain protection. A fortress against the market. A mausoleum with a liquor license. I went armed…
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The Cognitive Manhattan Project and Its Coming Boardroom Coup
The air in Davos smells of melting permafrost and panic-sweat. Venture capitalists whisper about AGI alignment like medieval monks debating how many angels might pirouette on a data center’s cooling fin. Meanwhile, in a windowless Virginia sub-basement, a task force plots its leveraged buyout of one of those boutique model shops out near the crumbling…
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Big In a Texas
Once upon a time, being big in Japan meant you’d failed in America but succeeded in myth. These days, we’ve moved the mirage inland. Now it’s Texas — the South Capital of Soft Capital — where every hustler, coder, and half-famous band gathers to pretend they’re building something that matters. I wasn’t looking forward to…
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Revisiting Vietnam
Research Grant Proposal: Revisiting Vietnam: Exploring the Parapsychological Labyrinth of a Humphrey Triumph Over Nixon, Impeded by Kaleidoscopic Counterculture and Fellow Travelers in the Fog Authored by: Mortimer M. Muddle Sponsored by: Abstract: The specter of Vietnam looms large in the American psyche. This proposal seeks to revisit that pivotal moment in history, venturing into the…