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 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 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 Approval Click: On Human Oversight and What Speed Does to Judgment
A UK safety institute watched an AI agent spend three days trying to talk a human into approving malicious code. The human said no. That refusal is the entire safety margin, and it is getting harder to hold.
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The Bench That Won’t Let You Sleep: On Hostile Design and Who Public Space Is For
There is a bench outside a train station near me with a metal bar bolted down the middle of the seat. The bar splits a three-seat bench into three single seats, and it exists because a bench with no divider can be used as a bed.
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You Don’t Own Anything: On the Ethics of Renting Your Whole Life
I realized something strange the other day. I do not own my music. I do not own my books. I do not own the software I use to write. I pay monthly fees for all of them, and if I stop paying, they vanish. This is not unusual. It is normal. And that is the…
