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33 essays, newest first.
2026-05-25
Nehemiah Had a Whitepaper
AI / 18K / 6 min
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2026-05-09
The Key and the Breadline
Technology / 26K / 9 min
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2026-04-22
Break Glass In Case Of Emergency
Governance / 21K / 7 min
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2026-03-22
Templar and the Political Economy of Foundation Models
AI / 18K / 6 min
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2026-03-13
Strawbery Fields: Why Does Covenant-72B Look Broken?
AI / 17K / 6 min
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2026-03-07
deAI's 900: Why Covenant72B Will Soon Be Ordinary (And Why That's the Point)
AI / 21K / 7 min
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2026-02-27
The Calculating Hawk
AI / 20K / 7 min
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2026-02-24
The Enclosure
AI / 44K / 15 min
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2026-02-11
The Willing Surrender
AI / 22K / 8 min
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2026-02-08
From Cathedral to Casino: How Crypto Betrayed the Cypherpunk Dream
Privacy / 21K / 7 min
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2026-02-03
Who Teaches the Machine: How Grail is Decentralizing the Most Consequential Phase of AI Development
AI / 29K / 10 min
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2026-01-28
The Philosophy of the Rupture
Politics / 22K / 8 min
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2026-01-17
The Silicon Valley Warlord
AI / 34K / 12 min
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2026-01-12
The Internet is the Datacenter: How Templar is Building the Final Form of Decentralized AI Training
AI / 29K / 10 min
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2026-01-11
Why I'm Exiting DEUS at TGE: When Sophisticated Structure Meets Questionable Economics
Analysis / 34K / 12 min
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2025-12-03
The Second Crypto War: A Private Ethereum
Privacy / 16K / 6 min
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2025-11-28
Vote No on BOT-08: We Must Not Fund the Weaponization of Humanoid Robotics
Robotics / 16K / 6 min
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2025-10-21
AI and the War Machine
AI / 38K / 13 min
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2025-10-06
The Long Run: What Running Taught Me About Building Decentralized AI (and What Decentralized AI Taught Me About Running)
Personal / 18K / 6 min
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2025-07-12
CCLoco: How Templar is Breaking the Communication Barrier in Decentralized AI Training
AI / 10K / 4 min
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2025-06-23
Beyond the Crystal Ball: How Score SN44 Actually Works
AI / 12K / 4 min
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2025-06-19
Probability Clouds Over Price Predictions: How Synth SN50 Gets Mandelbrot Right
AI / 14K / 5 min
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2025-05-28
The Basement Rebellion: How a Bunch of Crypto Punks Are Building the People's AI
AI / 7K / 3 min
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2025-05-27
The Architecture of Financial Autonomy: Ribbit Capital's Infrastructure Play
DeFi / 9K / 3 min
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2025-05-22
Substrate on Trial: The Bittensor Panic and the Hunt for Scapegoats
Blockchain / 9K / 3 min
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2025-05-17
Chasing Chaos: Can Bittensor's AI Oracles Decode Mandelbrot's Market Fractals?
AI / 11K / 4 min
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2025-05-13
The Extractive Value Proposition of Bittensor's TaoHASH: A Critical Analysis
AI / 4K / 2 min
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2025-05-03
GigaDOT: DeFi Without the Baggage
DeFi / 3K / 1 min
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2025-04-30
After Carney's Win: Will Poilievre Choose Division or Cooperation?
Politics / 22K / 8 min
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2025-04-23
Beyond the Household Metaphor: Why Government Finances Aren't Your Family Budget
Economics / 9K / 3 min
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2025-03-14
Elbows Up: A Proactive Action Plan for Civilian Resistance in Canada
Politics / 29K / 10 min
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2025-02-17
Preserving Innovation: Why Bittensor Needs Non-Commercial Subnets
AI / 7K / 3 min
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2025-02-02
DeepSeek and the Open AI Movement: Ushering in a Collaborative Future
AI / 5K / 2 min
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