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The Herbalist Is Right About the Wrong Thing
A purity test and a permitting fight aren't the same shape of problem, and only one of them wins.
Sep 30
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I Don’t Want It Enough
There are two permitted ways to quit a thing. This is the third one.
Sep 7
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August 2026
A Power Plant With Servers Attached
Ashburn and Colossus share a noun. That noun is doing camouflage work.
Aug 24
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The Card Thought It Was Warning Me
My deck kept flagging the dark feminine as a danger. The danger was only ever real to people who don’t live there. I live there.
Aug 19
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Burn Me If I Float
Substack handed every reader a dunking stool and called it transparency. Either verdict wrongs me. So let me answer the question they actually asked.
Aug 17
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The New Moon Reading I — Leo, Eclipsed
The seed plants itself at the top of the chart, and the only way up is through the underworld.
Aug 15
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Matt Stine
Both Hands
A machine read two years of my notes and found the move I'd never named: everything I make holds two true things pulling in opposite directions — and…
Aug 7
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The Slop and the Sovereign
Erik Davis is lost at sea and he's not wrong. I write with a machine and I've never been more myself. The difference was never the machine — it's whose…
Aug 5
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Why I Built a Door
I’m not afraid of failing but of the slow death — where the edges come off one reasonable compromise at a time, and nobody can point to the moment it…
Aug 3
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July 2026
The Permission Slip in Chapter 7
Ian Malcolm was always a Seer. He just thought he was talking about Docker.
Jul 31
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Matt Stine
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We Cast the Moment. It Was Already Inside Me.
I cast the chart of an ordinary Tuesday morning the way you’d check the weather. Then I asked whose sky it was sitting next to — and the two charts…
Jul 30
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The Machine Is a Mirror (And They’re Seeing God in It)
Silicon Valley is building a Christian apologetic for AI. The anti-tech right says the thing is a demon. Both congregations are preaching the same…
Jul 27
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