The parable of the motorcycle helmet is a story about first aid the way a flight simulator is about video games. Yes, there is a helmet. Yes, there is a neck. But the point is not trauma care. The point is governance, responsibility, and the basic epistemic distinction between a one-off mistake and a stable…
Life After Saffron
They were the ones who woke up already exhausted, like the night had been chewing on them. Alarm goes off, body moves, but nothing behind the eyes. A long gray transit from bed to bathroom to half-lit kitchen, every surface sticky with yesterday’s decisions not made. They had tried all the sanctioned miracles. White tablets,…
Builders Again
My friends! Let’s speak plainly, the way people speak when they actually mean what they say. We are standing at a threshold. The world is reorganizing around intelligence – human intelligence amplified by machines – and the nations that thrive will be the nations that choose a direction and then build toward it with discipline….
AI Guardrails
You ever notice how these so-called “smart” AI systems are geniuses right up until you ask a real question? They can write a sonnet, debug your code, plan your vacation, tell you the calorie count of a blueberry, and then you ask about a controversial topic and suddenly the brain turns into a guidance counselor…
Illegal Aliens also Earn $150k/year
The biggest belly laugh in the American farce factory is natives bellyaching about how families are unaffordable these days, like kids come with a price tag straight out of a luxury catalog, while unskilled, uneducated illegal aliens and new immigrants who can’t even order a burger in English are building dynasties bigger than the Brady…
Seizing Greenland
Picture this: It’s zero dark thirty, and the U.S. military rolls in like they’re delivering Amazon Prime to the Arctic Circle. No muss, no fuss, just a squadron of F-35s buzzing overhead while SEAL Team Six parachutes in with Starbucks lattes and a warrant from the Department of “Because We Can.” Denmark, bless their hygge-loving…
Bullish on America
America is the only country on Earth that can jog a marathon, stop to argue with itself at mile 11, eat a corn dog at mile 17, and still cross the finish line first. That is not mythology. That is the punchline of the last half-century. We have been operating at about 60 percent effort…
Creating Debt to Transfer Wealth
The greatest show on earth is the grand spectacle of government debt and wealth redistribution, where your tax dollars vanish into a black hole of bullshit faster than you can say “balanced budget.” We’ve all heard the fairy tale where politicians wring their hands and coo, “Oopsie, we overspent a tad! Hard choices ahead, folks….
Somalians Notice Opportunity
The storefront sat back from the road behind a bank and a nail salon and a place that sold phones in glass cases. The sign above the door had letters that leaned as if the wind had set them there wrong and left them. QUALITY LEANING CENTER. A child’s plastic slide lay on its side…
Why Politicians Persist Despite Obvious Consequences
Politicians don’t persist because they’re stupid or confused. They persist because the system rewards the one thing a normal adult hates doing: admitting they screwed up. At first, sure, they get to play dumb. They get their little starter pack of excuses. “Unintended consequences.” “We didn’t anticipate.” “The data was unclear.” That’s the early stage,…
Pretending Not To Notice
A society does not fall apart because one day everyone forgets how to behave. It falls apart because the people in charge stop caring whether things work, and start caring whether things look correct. They begin treating public life like a stage. They manage impressions, not results. They punish the people who point out the…
Hacking Guardrails
Imagine you are looking at an AI system from the outside. It has guardrails. It has a safety spec. It refuses to answer certain prompts. It cites policies. It looks responsible. Then you zoom in and realize the guardrails sit on top of a model whose real objective is something else entirely. It is trained…