Essays
Evidence & Provenance
Source criticism, attribution, entity resolution, corrections, confidence, reproducible auditing, and the discipline of separating evidence from narrative convenience.
Censorship beyond the ban
Visibility, distribution, infrastructure, and incentives can constrain information without a single delete button.
Memory needs many custodians
Archives, diaspora institutions, independent copies, and provenance protect the public record from single-point erasure.
When language becomes an information border
Translation, euphemism, controlled vocabulary, and multilingual divergence can change access to information.
The sanctity of the query
Why a lawful search query should be treated as inquiry, not a confession of belief, character, or intent.
The algorithmic judgment of intent
When helpful query interpretation becomes persistent profiling—and why consequential inference needs due process.
The safety poison pill, narrowed
What survives after adversarially testing the claim that safety rationales become a poison pill for cognitive liberty.
Audit the gatekeeper
A ten-category method for testing whether AI and information systems actually respect cognitive liberty.
“Rebel or Die”? Provenance before mythology
What can actually be verified about Agnes Smedley, the slogan’s genealogy, and claims of Russian anti-war adoption.
No to war: what Russian anti-war resistance actually said
Documented anti-war language, mobilization resistance, dissent signaling, women-led protest, and repression.
The Orange Revelation: a case study in pattern hunger
Entity resolution, false friends, search artifacts, and why lexical similarity is not historical transmission.
How to question dogma without replacing it
The skeptical project fails when “question everything” hardens into another identity-protective orthodoxy.
Explore by question
Follow a topic, not just a chronology.
The topic map groups essays by recurring questions and shows where evidence, ethics, power, institutions, and cognitive liberty overlap.