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One park in daylight through two lenses. A camera lens shows it cleared: raised canopies, bushes cut to stumps, an empty bench, a hawk. A field glass shows it with cover: thick bushes, birds, butterflies, a lizard, children and a dog at play.

Safety or Privacy

Social Liberty Foundation ·

On the night of 27 March 1943 a group of men in borrowed police uniforms talked their way into the Amsterdam population registry on the Plantage Kerklaan, a former concert hall across from the zoo. They overpowered the guards, moved […]

Property tax: a surveyed parcel ringed by the community, trading a coin for a sealed title. Transaction tax: a third hand reaching between two people trading bread for a coin.

Essential Differences Between Transaction Tax and Property Tax

Alan Forester-Kaiser ·

In 1569 the Duke of Alba, governing the Netherlands for Philip II, asked the States General for three new taxes. The first, the Hundredth Penny, was a one-time levy of one percent on all property. The second, the Twentieth Penny, […]

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 ·

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 […]

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 ·

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 […]