Utility pole with a chaotic tangle of wires spreading in all directions against a clear blue sky.

The Desolation of the Real

In 2007, I watched a meticulously negotiated LNG agreement dissolve into fiction the moment it touched the press. No scandal. No conspiracy. Just distortion, narrative gravity, and human convenience. That was the day I understood: truth does not die in darkness — it evaporates in transit. From then on, I stopped consuming information. I started constructing it.
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Rust-corroded industrial pipeline joint with flanges and bolts, symbolizing aging energy infrastructure.
Empire of Sunk Costs
The pipelines were laid. The giants were drilled. The costs were politically absorbed and historically erased. Europe mistook inheritance for permanence….
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Three astronauts in pressurized suits walk away from a landed spacecraft on a barren, Mars-like landscape under a pale sun, emphasizing human fragility in a hostile environment.
Earth Is Not Optional
We like to imagine ourselves as a spacefaring species, destined to scatter across the stars. In reality, we are fragile Earth-creatures…
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The Model in Your Head

Yes, AI is a model. And like every model, its outputs are, in principle, predictable—bounded by its architecture, its training,…

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