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Essays on this site, a newsletter on Substack. Same thread: desire, verification, digital sovereignty.
On this site
- The whole is more (and less) than the sum of its partsA reflection on specialization, the big picture, and everything lost when we take things apart.
- The cloud does not exist. There is only a substrate.Behind the cloud: mines, chips, concrete, water, and energy — a map of the matter that holds up the digital.
- The largest condominium ever built has no administratorLow Earth orbit as a condo without rules: Starlink, debris, and the commons.
- Denim and siliconOn the artificial-gold rush, the sellers of picks, and who really holds the knife by the handle.
- Infrastructure has no conscienceAmazon, Project Nimbus, and the real price of convenience.
- Philosophy on the payrollSilicon Valley is not short of philosophers. It is short of proof that they matter.
- Make people addictedAddiction as architecture.
- Confidence is not verificationA model sure of itself has not yet proved anything. Ethics begins where a certainty can be refused.