Posts tagged “personal sovereignty”

Four workers against a Gilbreth motion-study grid, a mason, a weaver, a line worker pulling the andon cord and a writer, each hand tracing a light trail that forks at every choice; the chosen trails rise and weave together overhead.

Work and Workflow

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 14, 2026

A bricklayer in 1890 laying a course of common brick stooped to the pile at his feet, picked up a brick, turned it over to find the better face, tapped it to knock off loose mortar, and carried it up […]

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On Purpose of Writing

Idan Rednaxus · October 13, 2026

On high ground above tree line, trails are often marked by cairns: small stacks of stones, one in sight of next, trails leading across rock where no path wears into the ground. Nobody knows who are their builders. A hiker […]

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A woodcut-style man in red, in waistcoat and breeches, swings a sledgehammer high overhead toward a stocking frame drawn in faint pale lines on a black ground.

Forms of Luddism

Margaret Johannsen · October 13, 2026

In 1492 the abbot of Sponheim, Johannes Trithemius, wrote a treatise called In Praise of Scribes. Monks, he argued, should keep copying books by hand even though the new presses could produce them faster. Copying was devotion. A scribe meditated […]

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A singularity over a city at night: a black event horizon ringed with light and a tilted orange accretion disk, as buildings tear loose from the skyline and spiral in toward it, stretching and burning as they fall

The AI Event of 2026

Alan Forester-Kaiser · September 30, 2026

Historic events usually don't arrive on a date. The numerals Europe counts with didn't have a launch day. Leonardo of Pisa, the mathematician later called Fibonacci, brought the Hindu-Arabic system to Italian merchants in his Liber Abaci in 1202, and […]

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Three figures seen from behind at dusk walk a path narrowing to a glowing point: a tall, thin one in an orange scarf, an average one of no particular gender, and a broad-shouldered athlete in a ball cap, half off the path

Narrow Edge -- A Trialogue

Social Liberty Foundation · September 29, 2026

Three voices. SL speaks for the Social Liberty Foundation. Claude is the AI model that helped draft this piece, given its own lines. 3rd Party is a composite of the country's existing outside parties, fifty years of running […]

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Free Mind

Margaret Johannsen · August 19, 2026

We leave a little before half past seven, with maybe twenty minutes of real light left before the sun actually goes down at 7:39 — gold enough that the sidewalk cracks throw shadows, cool enough that Dog isn't panting before […]

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