Articles & Essays

Macro perceptual analysis on AI bubble economics, narrative engineering, and the machinery of manufactured perception.

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May 28, 2026

How Banks Create Money From Nothing

The Signal Report · Series I: The Foreign Country of Money · Entry 2

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May 26, 2026

The Meme That Evaluates on Your Behalf

Why Every New Imaging Technology Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened

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May 19, 2026

What Marx Got Right About AI in 1843

What If the Most Misread Sentence in Political History Is Running the AI Industry?

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May 13, 2026

What Is a Dollar, Actually?

What is a dollar? Not gold, not a government promise.

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May 13, 2026

The $100 Trillion Offer

When the entire market mistakes the map for the territory, direct observation becomes a $100 trillion advantage.

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April 7, 2026

The Halo Effect

Why People Worship Tech Billionaires

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March 24, 2026

The Commenters Are the Slop

How a two-word meme became a mind virus—and what forty years of manufacturing perception taught me about the people who caught it

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March 17, 2026

AI Crash Report: What Triggers the Collapse

What three physicists, a Serbian teenager, and seven men in a circle can teach us about the coming AI collapse

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March 10, 2026

THE HYPOCRITE AND THE PARADOX

On Using the Machine Against Itself

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March 3, 2026

THE OBELISK IN THE ROOM

On tools, paradox, and what it means to fight the machine from inside the machine.

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February 24, 2026

AI Crash Report: The Physics of the Collapse

Even If the Money Were Real, the Physics Don’t Work

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February 17, 2026

The Silicon Mirage: Big Tech’s Broken Promises

Understanding how a con works is the vaccine against being conned.

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February 3, 2026

AI Crash Report: The Money Furnace

What happens when circular financing meets infrastructure obsolescence—and why 2026-2027 is when the music stops

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January 21, 2026

The End of Moore's Law

The Physics of Stagnation