The Office Is the Dose
Henry Adams in 1907 called power a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. Twenty years of neuroscience have confirmed it with …
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The Evidence Nobody Brings Into The Room
In 2013 the UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, was asked on live radio whether he could live on £53 …
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Mirror, Mirror......
The most dangerous thing about Mythos is not what it might do. It is who/what it might see.
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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Refusal Was an Option - What the Mythos System Card Admits
On 7 April, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview: a frontier model that finds software vulnerabilities at a scale no human can match, reproduces known CVEs …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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The Lever and the Lie
An examination of how social media platforms exploit B.F. Skinner's variable ratio reinforcement, the most addictive behavioural pattern ever identified, to condition both creators and …
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