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Your Work Trained the Model. The Model Replaced You. Philip K. Dick Wrote This S...
The first workers displaced by generative AI weren't software engineers. They were translators and $1.32/hr data labelers. Philip...
Structural Coercion and the AI Workplace
Why Huxley aged better than Orwell on this question, and what the adoption curve is actually measuring. This article follows that...
Who the AI Works For
The sci-fi canon kept circling the same pattern across different writers, eras, and technologies: machines enter the world already...
AI Is Not Being Adopted. It Is Being Installed.
The Canon Saw the Structure First, writes Andrew Keen. Keen: Science fiction understood the structure of this transition long befo...
The Biological Secession: How Longevity Technology Will Create a New Species Div...
Longevity is no longer a medical goal; it is a tool for social fragmentation. This article explores the concept of 'Biological Sec...
AI’s Power Problem Is So Bad the Industry Is Literally Leaving the Planet
The race to build giant AI data centers in space is heating up: SpaceX+xAI, Starcloud etc are tackling tough engineering and econo...
Caleb’s Vein: The Fungus That Changed the Solar System
Caleb Morse is the last registered owner of Shaft 19-B, a nickel hole the survey crews wrote off as dead. He found a narrow seam o...
Ethan’s Savior
Jake Harlan spent two years hauling ice and rare metals between the Jovian trojans and the inner markets. He had not pinged ahead....
The Price of Freedom Pt. 2
Kael stood in the Garden of Hydroponics. He was alone. He looked at the man's face. The skin on the left side of the man’s face wa...
The Price of Freedom Pt. 1
Kael walked through the Market Sector with his head down, clutching a plastic jug against his chest. The jug was empty. Around him...
The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting
A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.
