Luc and the Machine ⁽¹⁶⁾

Inside the Billion-Dollar Pipeline Converting Gig Workers Into MilitaryTraining Data. Before the work, the harvest. A glossy door in the cloud, a promise printed in bright numerals— up to, up to, as if altitude were the same as arrival. You bring your résumé like an…

How "World Models" and 3D AI is Becoming a Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Ponzi Built on Unproven AGI Claims. The latest miracle in AI arrives wearing depth and 3D parallax, promising that true intelligence lives only in simulated worlds. Capital believes it — to the tune…

Inside the quiet revolution replacing brute-force scaling with modular architectures, sparse computation, and tool-aware reasoning. The era of pure scaling is ending. Hardware alternatives, novel architectures, and efficiency techniques are delivering 10-100× improvements over traditional GPU approaches while challenging the "bigger is better" paradigm across…

Rethinking Progress in an Age of Machine Excess. They scaled the heavens with silicon wings, calling it progress as the rivers thinned. Trillions of weights hum holy numbers, while the soil forgets its name. But mind is not a furnace fed by data— it is…

How Blockchain’s Freedom Myth Builds a Turnkey System for Financial Surveillance and Control In the beginning there were marks upon clay, scratches to remember the harvest, tallies to bind the debt. Ledgers were born as mirrors of memory, yet soon became chains of command. Empire…