A Colony With No Capital

A borrowed government signed away a century. No one bid, no one audited, no one asked. More on the report the Embassy wrote, circulated, and deleted…

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August 2026

The Shape of the Jaw

On The WSJ, AI detectors, and an old superstition.

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July 2026

The Republic’s Allowance

Washington audits Venezuela’s oil barrel by barrel and delivers earthquake aid in boxes of cash. In a country under tutelage, everything is counted by…

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June 2026

Venezuela, The Army’s Schedule

A country rehearsed in catastrophe, and a state that has perfected, above all else, its own absence.

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Jack Clark’s candor with an asterisk

A transparent leash is the oldest trick in authoritarian politics, and it has just been written into the architecture of a superintelligence. Would that…

Jun 25 • CICERO

The Pope and the Clock

“Magnifica Humanitas” has been read as a moral rebuke of Silicon Valley. In truth, it is an argument about speed and that is why no one there is…

Jun 8 • CICERO

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The Price

On the whale worth a trillion dollars alive, and the instruments that measured whether it was true. (The Political Economy of Consolation #4)

Jun 3 • CICERO

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May 2026

The License

This is the story of the scenario that scientists decided to retire, and the administration that celebrated its retirement. (The Political Economy of…

May 26 • CICERO

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The Promise

On the silicone membrane that hatched twenty-six chickens, and what it cannot return

May 25 • CICERO

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307 Billion Years

An inventory of what we are losing, and the grammar of the loss

May 11 • CICERO

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Every Brilliant Thing, and the Trapdoor That Won’t Close

Every actor who performs this play finds a different line that stops them. This one is mine.

May 3 • CICERO

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April 2026

The Catechism of Cheap Intelligence

AI doesn’t replace human judgment. It teaches institutions they don’t need it.

Apr 13 • CICERO

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