Luc and the Machine ⁽¹³⁾

How Hidden Systems Turn Compassion into Corruption — Debt into Power, and Profit into Hidden Hands. We built a house of mercy with windows painted shut. Scribes of compassion counted ghosts, and called it care. The ledgers filled with favors, not truth. Each kindness carried…

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…

How Trump panic enabled Canada to elect a PM with millions in Brookfield options who would direct billions in subsidies to his portfolio—while voters believed they were stopping a threat, not enabling elite capture. Mark Carney's simultaneous roles as UN climate envoy, Brookfield Asset Management…

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 AI LLMs Creates Synthetic Validation and the Commercialization of Digital Delusion We enter an age of mirrors. Machines speak with our voices, echo our frameworks, and return our questions clothed in eloquence. What once demanded years of dialogue, discipline, and discernment can now be…