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Fear and Loathing in the Ministry of Truth
There is no greater sin in the Church of the Perpetual Grift than reading Orwell and understanding him. That would be heresy—worse than treason, worse than tax increases. No, the only proper way to digest 1984 is to rip it apart like a rabid dog tearing through a steak wrapped in government bonds, chewing up…
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Rules of the Game
There’s a sickness in the air. It smells like Axe body spray, fear, and poorly structured hedge funds. The streets of Wall Street are crawling with a new breed of mark: the finance bro. You know the type—high-and-tight haircut, teeth like polished marble, and a face that screams, Dad says I’m a winner. These goons…
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ML + Crypto
The neon-lit labyrinth of machine learning and crypto doesn’t want to be resolved. It’s a sprawl, a rogue architecture growing in the interstitial zones between code and capital, where every solution births three fresh malignancies. Picture it: string theory’s a ghost cathedral, all hyperdimensional manifolds glowing in the vacuum, pristine and untouchable—a math cult’s wet…
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Scaling Is a Problem. Downscaling Is a Wicked Problem.
Scaling is easy. Just throw more hardware at it, more bodies, more capital, more hype. Pump it up, stack it high, run the numbers until they glow. A startup becomes a unicorn, a unicorn becomes a monopoly, and suddenly the market’s a game of Monopoly where one guy owns all the hotels and everyone else…
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The SV Ouroboros: Eating Its Own Future
Ah, the glittering contradictions of Silicon Valley, where the titans of “innovation” hold the steering wheel with one hand and strangle competition with the other. The ecosystem of disruption is now an ant farm encased in venture-backed resin. We’re engineering a conflict to kickstart a future that will take us forward 75 years into the…
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ZIRP Personality
What If Your Whole Personality Depended on Low Interest Rates? Worse—what if your entire social circle, your ideological shtick, your sense of meaning, was just a byproduct of a SoftBank write-down? That’s the uncomfortable reality a lot of people are facing right now. We’ve spent the last decade living inside a simulation powered by cheap…
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Elon’s Reverse Von Braun
Elon Musk is a living prototype of the reverse Von Braun, a man who started with rockets and electric cars and ended up in the ideological trenches, slowly backpedaling into the past like a man moonwalking into a burning building. Von Braun had the good sense to launder himself through history’s acceptable filters. He started…
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Wordcel vs Shape Rotators
The problem with the wordcel-shape rotator class is that it’s an ecosystem without an outside. A self-licking ice cream cone of credentialed cognition. They write white papers for each other, render graphs no one else reads, optimize logistics for the next iteration of optimizing logistics. But here’s the catch—markets require consumers. They require a churning…
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All’s Well That Ends Well (1602)
1. All’s Well That Ends Well (1602) Based on the ninth tale of the third day in Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, the Decameron. Completed in 1353, the Decameron is a collection of one hundred short stories told by friends over ten days during the Black Death. William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest…
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The Mary Sue’s Journey
The concept of the Mary Sue character has been a controversial topic in literature and media for years. The term originally came from fan fiction and referred to an idealized and perfect self-insert character. In recent times, the term has been expanded to describe any character, regardless of gender, who is seemingly flawless and overpowered,…
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