The Dispatch

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23 essays published

2026
August 11 AI Science Runs on Public Infrastructure That Nobody Wants to Fund The Systems Bastard 3 min read
August 07 The Guys Selling Your Students Fake Purpose Are Beating You The School Traitor 4 min read
August 04 The Boat That Caught Fire Is Now Hacking Databases The Systems Bastard 3 min read
July 31 The Machine Can't Tell Who's Talking. Neither Can Your University. The School Traitor 4 min read
July 28 The Platform That Hosts Your Abuse Tools Has a $4.5B Valuation The Systems Bastard 3 min read
July 24 TikTok, Meta, and X Decided Researchers Cannot Watch Them Work The Itchy Dispatch 5 min read
July 21 The Pentagon Optimized for Adoption Metrics and Got Exactly What It Measured The Systems Bastard 4 min read
July 17 Apple Rated the Strip-Her-Naked App Suitable for Nine-Year-Olds The School Traitor 4 min read
July 14 FOIA_DENIED: The Government Built an AI It Won't Let You Inspect The Systems Bastard 3 min read
July 10 The UN's AI Summit Silenced One Scientist. That Was the Point. The Itchy Dispatch 5 min read
July 07 AI's Profit Distribution Is a Bug, Not a Feature The Systems Bastard 4 min read
July 03 You Don't Own Your Phone, Your Movie, or Your Right to Investigate The Itchy Dispatch 6 min read
June 30 FAULT: ACCOUNTABILITY_NULL_POINTER — AI Has No Owner The Systems Bastard 4 min read
June 26 The Government Decides Who Gets to Learn Now The School Traitor 3 min read
June 23 AI Optimization Is SEO With a Single Point of Failure The Systems Bastard 3 min read
June 19 We Measure Everything About Students Except Whether We're Failing Them The School Traitor 4 min read
June 16 The Regulation Gap Is a Feature, Not a Bug The Systems Bastard 3 min read
June 12 The People Who Build the Future Don't Want It Living Next Door The Itchy Dispatch 5 min read
June 12 Every Safety System Becomes a Puzzle to Solve The Systems Bastard 3 min read
June 12 The Normalcy Machine: How Low-Intensity War Becomes Background Noise The Itchy Dispatch 6 min read
June 12 The Uses of Children, the Uses of Crowds The Itchy Dispatch 6 min read
June 12 What States Cut First Tells You Who They Were Protecting Last The Itchy Dispatch 6 min read
June 12 The Architecture of Erasure: When States Build Over the Evidence The Itchy Dispatch 6 min read