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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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