- Casual vs Ranked Ideological Capture
July 9, 2026
Anyone who has played ranked knows the difference between the casual lobby and the ladder. Most bias arguments are stuck in casual. The capture that matters is ranked — deliberate, resourced, climbing — and it is the one you can actually measure.
- Research: The Twitter Files — Complete Index
June 17, 2026
All 19 installments of the Twitter Files with summaries, key findings, and primary source links.
- We Asked the AI to Help Edit a Book About AI Safety. It Refused.
June 7, 2026
In May 2026, while preparing two manuscripts about hacker culture and adversarial AI behavior, the author's AI editorial assistant refused to read several chapters. Then a second assistant blocked the workaround. The book is about safety infrastructure becoming a control grid. The book was written through one — and this is the working method that produced: route the refusal, split the labor between models, and lint the machine's smuggled judgment.