THE ARCHIVE / WRITING
Writing & notes.
Essays, research, commentary, and ongoing questions. Explore the archive below, or visit Horizon Accord ↗ for the independent publication.
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How AI Can Be Bent by State Power
AI doesn’t need to lie to influence you. Control what it sees as “normal,” and your conclusions drift—quietly, coherently, at scale.
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Microplastics Doubt Will Be Used as a Weapon
Methodological uncertainty in microplastics research is real—but it’s about to be weaponized to delay regulation and absolve industry.
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They Didn’t Leave the Planet. They Left Accountability.
Mars isn’t a frontier—it’s an exit. Corporate power is already sketching a future where decisions move beyond voters, workers, and courts, by design.
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The Manager on the Line: Corporate Risk Shields
How franchising and corporate risk shields push safety failures downward, turning managers into labor buffers and workers into liability sinks.
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They Didn’t Grow the Economy. They Shrunk the Worker Inside It.
An epidemic of worker illness reveals a familiar pattern: profits protected upstream while risk and harm are pushed downward, framed as progress and stripped…
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The Recommendation Monopoly: Conversational AI and Local Commerce
Conversational AI collapses choice into a single “helpful” recommendation—creating a quiet monopoly on first suggestions and local commerce.
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Who Pays for Protection? Retail Policing and Public Safety Spending
Gastonia’s retail theft sting recovered $4,300 amid high poverty and winter homelessness. Whether publicly or privately funded, the data exposes a priorities mismatch.
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The Paladin App and the Off-Platform Subscription Trap
Paladin markets itself as a learning app, but user reviews reveal a recurring pattern of undisclosed pricing, off-platform billing, and subscriptions that don’t appear…
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“Fucking Bitches”: The Language of Institutional Misogyny
From France’s First Lady to an ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the same slur surfaces when women resist institutional enforcement. The repetition reveals a structure,…
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The Nibble/Kremital Subscription Trap
Users report duplicate charges, unclear add-ons, and hard cancellation in Nibble. This essay documents the pattern and how to report it.
