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29
Jul
Nothing To See Here

Nothing To See Here

Twenty weeks of training to get the badge. After that, no obligation to record what you do with it, and no external mechanism that will notice a pattern unless someone already knows which pattern to look for.
11 min read
25
Jul
The Doors Were Locked From the Outside

The Doors Were Locked From the Outside

The people who died at Imperial were not killed by fire. Fire was the mechanism. They were killed by a padlock, a vacant inspector's job, and a state philosophy that said prosperity would trickle down to the people standing in the water on the kill floor.
9 min read
22
Jul
The Marion Massacre of 1929

The Marion Massacre of 1929

8 min read
20
Jul
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House

The Call Is Coming From Inside The House

14 min read
13
Jul
The Election Won by a Dead Man

The Election Won by a Dead Man

8 min read
08
Jul
The Woman in the Photograph

The Woman in the Photograph

7 min read
01
Jul
The Cluster is the Cover

The Cluster is the Cover

The mechanism succeeds precisely because it looks like tragedy rather than procedure. Because the person being eliminated is never made to understand they are being eliminated. Because the narrative supplied by the institution becomes the default explanation.
11 min read
01
Jul
How Intelligence Becomes Propaganda

How Intelligence Becomes Propaganda

6 min read
27
Jun
When Courts Stop Enforcing Law

When Courts Stop Enforcing Law

6 min read
25
Jun
The Assumption at the Center

The Assumption at the Center

Leadership changes. Architecture persists. A system that functions only under benevolent leadership is, by definition, unstable.
5 min read