Summer Lightning

Thermal Memory

How technological memory affects different layers of civilization

Jan 18 • Sachin

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General-Purpose Technologies as Annealing Agents

Towards a more technology informed theory of social acceleration.

Jan 9 • Sachin

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December 2025

Work-Hardened Archetypes

Memetic and Mnemonic Archetypes, revisiting sons-of-soil arguments and...Saint Nicholas

Dec 30, 2025 • Sachin

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Carnival Time, Hardness, and the Machines That Process Excess

LLMs as carnival processing machines

Dec 22, 2025 • Sachin

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Manufactured Present

Casino Time, Craft Time and expression of time in risks x consequences

Dec 18, 2025 • Sachin

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Knowledge Chronotopes

AI has no default sense of tempo, but neither does common law or religious texts

Dec 10, 2025 • Sachin

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Devices For The Crafty

Looking at 19th century distinctions between gambling and speculative investment

Dec 5, 2025 • Sachin

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Metabolizing Monsters

Online swarms and social web as unprocessed monsters

Dec 1, 2025 • Sachin

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November 2025

Long Goodbye

Twentieth century imagery of cars

Nov 22, 2025 • Sachin

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Why Does AI Development Look Like 1980s Software Planning?

Conway's Law and Coase theorem applied to AI

Nov 16, 2025 • Sachin

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Social Web to Royal Machine

Metaphors for LLMs and meatspace as anti-environments

Nov 8, 2025 • Sachin

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October 2025

Cozyweb Animals

Cozyweb as collective self-regulation in the permaweird

Oct 31, 2025 • Sachin

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