"The Listening Post"
John MarksEssays from the edge of democracy. Tracking erasure, control, law, truth, and what it means to still resist.
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While you were sleeping, a machine reviewed names for seconds and approved one. A program followed a father home and the strike found his family. The kill chain runs at machine speed now. Conscience cannot. Speed is not judgment. Prediction...
GUARD YOUR VOTE. HOLD THE CHAIN.
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The Record at Your Desk
The viral claim was too broad. The documents are narrower, and worse. Read together, they show how ordinary use turns thought into a record that can be kept, moved, and sorted under rules the user will never see.
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Chokepoint
After Andrea Gibson (1975-2025) This poem is a companion to "The Architecture of Siege."
They are moving faster than you can follow. That is the point.
I was a machine that kept a woman breathing. Someone pulled my cord and called it nece...
The Architecture of Siege
Cuba is being starved by design. Iran pulverized. The methods are not new. They travel. This essay follows them - the blockade, the boat strikes, the precedent factory that carries offshore violence home. The siege is the strategy. The over...
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