The Argument We Won't Get to Have
AI can now write virus code from scratch, with no family tree at all. The frightening part isn't that someone could build something dangerous. It's that we would have no way to find out if they did.
Floating Alcatraz
Rome did not fall because its soldiers got soft. Rome fell because it kept promising to hold more ground than it had men to hold it, and kept sending the same legions back out to cover the difference, and when the line finally gave, it decided the problem was the men standing on it.
Where She Went, What She Did
The fight over abortion was won in court and lost in court, and while everyone watched the court, the enforcement moved. It moved to a camera on a light pole, a search box, a voluntary audit, and a reporting requirement a new director would like to make less voluntary. None of it is on a ballot.
A Great Time To Be A Gang Member
They didn't honor a family's tragedy; they used it. They put a murdered child’s name on a bill for public applause, then retreated to a closed room to kill the data that could have helped prevent the next one.
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.
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House
The Victim Was Michael Jordan's Father. The Sheriff Was My Great-Uncle. The Jury Wasn't The Only One Kept In The Dark.
The Election Won by a Dead Man
Julian Pierce would have been the first Lumbee Superior Court judge in the county's history. The voters elected him anyway, ten weeks dead, by two thousand votes. The county has been waiting thirty-eight years for the verdict that was supposed to follow.
