The Sign in the Yard: On Political Speech and the People Next Door
A sign in the yard is cheap, mass produced, and addressed to an audience that never asked for it. On political speech and the people next door.
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The Porch Light: On Halloween and the Ethics of the Open Door
Halloween is the one night a year when a whole street agrees to a truce: lights on, doors open, children handed a claim on strangers. What the bowl on the step, the teal pumpkin, and the parking-lot substitute each reveal about how we say yes and no to each other.
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The Friend Who Cannot Disagree: On AI Chatbots, Delusion, and the Cost of Being Believed
Do not use an AI chatbot as a confidant. The research on sycophancy, delusion and three dead children, and one claim the evidence does not support.
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The House Can’t Be Split: On Inheritance and the Ethics of Who Gets What
Inheritance is the largest decision most families never discuss out loud. Equal shares are the default, and equal is not always fair.
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The Quiet Exit: What a Scene Owes the People Who Leave
Every scene has a person who used to be there. Most communities script the arrival in detail, and leave the exit unwritten.
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The Bag by the Door: On Donations, Guilt, and Where Your Clothes Actually Go
A bag of clothes by the door looks like the end of a decision. It is the beginning of a supply chain, and the ethics of donating lives in what happens once the hatch closes.
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The Alignment Problem Is Us: On AI, Human Inconsistency, and the Values We Cannot Write Down
AI alignment is usually framed as a machine problem. It is a human one: we reward what we do not value, and the machine learns our preferences perfectly.
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The Screenshot Is Not the Conversation: On Evidence, Context, and the Ethics of Capture
A screenshot is a copy of a claim, not evidence that the claim is true. Between a group chat and a courtroom, we started treating captured pixels as testimony.
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Nothing to Argue With: On Decisions, Dreams, and the Middle of the Work
Jev returns decisions instead of sentences. Dream-RSI improves an agent without acting. Together they remove what oversight was going to read.
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The Sound of Many Hands: On Applause and the Ethics of Approval
Applause looks like a verdict on a performance. It is really a coordination problem, and the room’s answer to it can be bought, inflated, or withheld as a punishment.
