Collapse Isn’t Just Institutional. It’s Personal.
There’s a form of collapse that doesn’t make headlines. It doesn’t announce itself with dramatic exits or public implosions. It shows up in smaller ways. A skipped status call. A…
Category: Personal
Tactical Field Guide: Resisting Escalation Without Becoming the Pretext
Escalation isn’t a failure mode. It’s a strategy. The goal is not order — it’s justification. Not stability — but spectacle. Not safety — but consent for emergency powers. When…
Escalation, Hypocrisy, and ICE
We’re being told Pretti was “brandishing a weapon” and “attacking” ICE personnel who then killed him. We all know now that it’s BS. Those claims are not supported by the…
Practical Acceptance
January is already a rough time for me to pretend to be a functioning adult. Coming back after the holidays feels like trying to re-enter orbit with half a tank…
AI Isn’t Just a Tech Shift—It’s Late-Stage Capitalism Speedrunning Its Oldest Failure Modes
One of the strangest rituals of the current AI moment is how hard the industry tries to insist that everything is new. That this is a clean break from history,…