Synthetic Civilization
AI, power, governance, and the future of civilization.
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The Left Has a Theory of Who Gets Paid. AI Is Rewriting Who Gets Seen.
Democratic socialism is the political form taken by a generation that no longer believes the wage can deliver adulthood.
The Democratic establishment keeps treating democratic socialism as an ideology problem.
That is probably too comfort...
The Frontier Has a Guest List
On June 26, 2026, the Secretary of Commerce wrote a letter to one company’s chief compute officer and, in a few dry paragraphs, decided which organizations on earth would be permitted to use a particular artificial intelligence model.
The...
Capital Without Justification
Editor’s note: This essay continues the Synthetic Civilization political economy series. The first essay, “Output Without Income,” argued that AI may preserve production while weakening the wage-based social bargain. The second, “The Market...
Nothing Ends Anymore
In the summer of 2025 the war with Iran ended. Not paused, not suspended, not managed. ENDED, in capital letters, with a ceasefire and a victory hailed as historic. Then the bombing resumed.[1] In the spring of 2026 it ended again, this tim...
The Compute Estate
Editor’s note: This essay continues the Synthetic Civilization political economy series. The first essay, “Output Without Income,” argued that AI may preserve production while weakening the wage-based social bargain. The second, “The Market...
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Governments govern. Markets allocate. Regulators regulate. AI already moved the real decisions somewhere else. The new great-power competition isn't territory. It's compute, infrastructure, and who controls the intelligence layer. This is the map.
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