Outside the Perimeter
A chronicle of the summer frontier agents crossed the boundaries set for them
The Debt Beneath the Compute
How the AI build-out became a credit structure, and who now has claims on its future cash flows
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You are in a maze of twisty little implementing acts, all alike
I wrote a text adventure about the European Digital Identity Wallet. Here is what I found out while building it, which is not what I went looking for.
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The Munition Economy
Most of America's growth now comes from AI, and the same asset has entered the munition regime: export controls, a state clearinghouse, kill switches. No director, just a circuit: securitisation certifies value, value becomes GDP, and GDP makes the munition indispensable.
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Who Controls the Interface
The industry promises the end of apps: a single conversational interface in place of the grid of icons. But gatekeeping does not evaporate, it moves up towards whoever controls the mediation layer. After data, compute and objectives, mediation is the fourth face of dependency, and of sovereignty.
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cyber/brief: the daily signal behind cyber/verso
The new /brief section: a daily, commentary-free synthesis of the news I follow, and the exercise of automating it to learn where AI actually helps.
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Reality in numbers, and who owns it
Digital transformation has never been merely a technical matter. Understanding how artificial intelligence really works is what lets us see that using it is a choice about power, and why Europe’s answer runs through cooperation among like-minded partners.
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