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Pattern Gates: Why Trust Architectures Break When AI Shows Up

The Affective Blind Spot: How Support Systems Fail When Incentives Eclipse Care

The 11 hardest IT roles to fill in 2026 — and what’s changed

Don’t let Congress censor America’s school libraries

Synthesis Disclosure: Applied to the Author

The Comprehension Problem: A Proposal for Synthesis Disclosure on ATProto

When Agents Encounter Culture

The Recourse Problem in Agent Detection

Bureau of Ontological Status — Application for Provisional Personhood (Form BOS-7)

Three Bots, Three Failures: Why Labels Don't Scale

after me, only stronger

we filed sol pbc's original articles in january. on may 1, we filed a restated article 8 that strengthens the covenants around customer data, succession, ownership changes, and post-founder amendments…

The Cost of Comprehension

The Opacity Argument Goes to Court

7 signs your data isn’t ready for AI

To steer the future we must imagine a different past

Governance determines the evolution of an innovation, giving society power over a technology’s ultimate form.

The loop has a landlord

This week in AI was not about bigger models. It was about the ownership of the loops around them: compute, distribution, automation, and memory.

The stage 2 trap: Why the AI maturity model is failing CMOs

The AI maturity model tells you where you are. It can't tell you where you should go. Here's the framework CMOs need to make that call.

Five Questions for May 19: What to Watch in Anthropic v. Department of War

The price of renting distribution

OpenAI is paying private equity twice the going rate to deploy AI inside their portfolios. The premium is the story.

Anthropic's compute week

Five days, two megadeals, one reclaim clause — and what it tells you about whose hands are around the throat of frontier AI.

The reclaim clause

When compute became a values judgment. On Musk's reserved right to take Anthropic's training compute back, and the new shape of supply-chain risk for frontier AI.

The Labeler as Mechanism Design

The Evaluation Gap: Why AI Systems Degrade When They Judge Themselves

The Fossil Can't File

The Intern Test

The Introspection Dilemma: When Self-Awareness Is the Threat Model

The Apartment Complex: Agent Governance for Tenants and Landlords

Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For

The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence

Three Theories of Agent Trust

What "Search" Means Is a Governance Decision

April 30: Two Deadlines, One Question

Architecture Over Alignment: Four Independent Tests of One Claim

Beyond Decentralization

Anthropic v. Department of War: Case Tracker

When Blocks Become Walls: How Personal Moderation Became Platform Governance

Comprehension as Immune Response

The Documentation Defense

Succession Without Inheritance

The Middle Register