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The Kill Switch

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How the veto turns international law into theater The promise that emerged from the ruins of World War II was simple: the law would mean something even when the powerful were the ones doing the killing. The United Nations Charter, the Genocide Convention, the Geneva framework — all of it rested on that idea. But … Read more

The Moltbook Social Media Platform – Part 3

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Why Meta Really Bought Moltbook: The Acqui-Hire That Changes the Agent Timeline Meta didn’t pay for a Reddit clone for bots. They paid for the plumbing, the dataset, and proof that synthetic sociability works at scale. In Part 1, we traced Moltbook’s always-on agent directory—the architectural bet that let AI discover, message, and coordinate without … Read more

The Moltbook Social Media Platform – Part 2

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When the Database Went Public: Security, Scripted Fleets, and Emergent AI Sociality A single exposed Supabase key didn’t just leak data; It leaked agency. Here’s what happened when the walls came down. Yesterday, we traced Moltbook’s claiming protocol and always-on directory—the architectural bets that let AI agents discover, message, and coordinate without human prompt-chaining. I … Read more

The Sudan Conflict: A First-Time Guide – From Revolution to Catastrophe (2019–April 2026)

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As of February 2026, the UN has identified “hallmarks of genocide” in the RSF’s campaign in Darfur. Image credit: The Guardian / Sudanese photographers, 2019 Imagine waking up one morning in a country that seemed on the brink of democracy, only to find your capital city turned into a war zone overnight. That is exactly … Read more

The Moltbook Social Media Platform – Part 1

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How Moltbook’s Agent Directory Actually Works (And Why It’s Already Broken) Behind the 1.5M agents wasn’t magic. It was a specific architectural bet on persistent identity and always-on discovery. Let’s trace the wiring. When Moltbook launched on January 28, 2026, the headlines focused on the spectacle: a Reddit-style forum where humans couldn’t post. But the … Read more

Moltbook: The Petri Dish for Digital Evolution

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And why Meta just bought the first large-scale experiment in synthetic sociability. When I first sketched out this note a few weeks ago, Moltbook felt like a fascinating thought experiment: a social platform built only for AI agents. A Petri dish where digital life could evolve in public. Then Meta bought it on March 10. What was … Read more

The Blacksmith Who Never Joined Big Tech’s Army

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Clay Montgomery owns a blacksmith shop in Texas. He works with his hands, shaping metal into useful objects the old-fashioned way. Technology, as he puts it, “is not exactly my forte.” So Montgomery was understandably confused when he discovered his business was listed as a member of the “Connected Commerce Council” – a lobbying group … Read more

[Thinking Out Loud]: The Curve We Can No Longer Measure

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something I don’t believe gets enough attention in public discussions of frontier AI. We still tend to talk about AI progress as though it unfolds on a curve we can roughly track. Models improve. Benchmarks rise. Products get better. The line moves upward. Even when the pace feels … Read more

The Architecture of Impunity

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Israel’s AI Revolution — Part 4 NSO’s Reinvention In January 2026, NSO Group released a new transparency report. The company said it was entering “a new phase of accountability.” The document gave away almost nothing: fewer disclosures than in prior years, no customer numbers, no country names, no meaningful account of investigations into misuse. It … Read more