Jon Neiditz

Caring for Humans in a Panopticon: The Golden Record Problem We feel the sadness in the conference halls the way you can feel humidity before a storm: not performative, just there—resting on people’s shoulders while they drink hotel coffee and pretend it tastes...

Seems alliances are forming quietly between all groups who care about humans, who really care about anything, and being quiet, not being legible, is what many are about.

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Tacitus: Rebranded Robbers of the World I am Tacitus—trained in public speech, educated by private fear. I watched a commonwealth keep its old names while power moved indoors: from assemblies to corridors, from laws to whispers.

We need Tacitus to cover our wars of robbery and plunder. The networks report operations; Tacitus reports the empire: how “necessity” is manufactured, how tribute is laundered as favor, how conquest abroad is financed by corruption at home, and how habits change.

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Developing Minds on Beta: Steerability under Abundance At 11:47 p.m.

AI as “perfect tutor” is worse than illusion when it does perfect work while leaving the learner unchanged.

Real tutoring builds agency through struggle especially when the answer is easy.

Education doesn’t need flawless assistants.

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Trojan Tragedy in Fulton County: How to Stop the Feed The judge’s order is real. The convoy was cinematic.

A judge can dismiss a fantasy in a few clean pages. A convoy can resurrect it in a few clean shots.

If we don't stop the feed from editing time, we will wake up one day to find that the next election has already been “proven” illegitimate, on camera, in advance.

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Exposing the Fulton County Conspiracy Entrepreneurs A fraud is indeed being run in Fulton County, Georgia. It is the fraud of accusation: a coordinated practice of laundering insinuation into ‘evidence,’ then using that ‘evidence’ to demand power over ...

Breaking: Fulton County guilty of crimes against paperwork. Sentenced to complete exposure of its accusers here.

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Fulton County at the Junction: Trump’s Plan to Seize the Machinery of Voting Fulton County is a switchyard. Not the nostalgic kind—no lanterns, no brass, no romance.

Fulton County isn’t just the target of Trump’s election obsession—it’s the proof his story can’t survive.

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Amodei’s Implicit Alarm: Before the Datacenter Becomes the State Dario Amodei’s thoughtful new essay is an adult document about adolescent power. It refuses doomer theater, refuses techno-utopia, refuses the narcotic comfort of certainty.

Dario Amodei's new essay is one of the most mature documents on AI safety yet written, and also contains political and legal insights that a tech CEO cannot say out loud.

"Democracy" work that ignores AI is guarding the ballot box while the evidence layer melts.

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After Pretti: America’s Choice Between Truth and the Two Machines A free people can endure argument, but not a broken record of reality. When the fight over what happened becomes the norm, the vote may survive, but consent dies.

After Pretti, the country just learned something it had been resisting for years: the fight is no longer only over policy. It is over the public ownership of reality.

The tide has turned. Now we begin the work that makes truth livable again.

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The Administration Confesses in the Murder of Alex Pretti The killing of Alex Pretti is the most complete confession yet by the Trump Administration of who it is and what it wants from us. First it attacks you with precisely the same three-beat muscle memory...

The murder of Alex Pretti wasn’t just a national tragedy. It was the Trump Administration's most complete confession yet.

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Walking, Not Burning: The Monks, the ROMEOs, and the Better Angels We call ourselves the Circle of Knowledge, which is both a joke and an aspiration depending on how the week has gone. The name we gave ourselves that has caught on more is ROMEOs, Retired Old Men Eati...

In a country addicted to performative persuasion, monks walking with a dog have become the most persuasive thing I’ve seen in years. The ROMEOs noticed. The small towns noticed. Washington is about to find out what a hush looks like.

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The Default Brain & the Rise of the Geminopoly Nobody is going to “choose” their AI assistant. They’re going to inherit it, the way they inherit whatever browser shows up on a new phone, or whatever search bar sits there like a loaded gun pointed ...

Apple just invited Google into Siri’s engine room. When one company can pair iOS reach with Android dominance and a full-stack AI machine underneath, the risk isn’t “better AI.” It’s a Google moat around default cognition, with everyone else stuck selling boats.

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THE GROUND THAT WILL NOT LIE: Why Trump and Noem Were Unmasked in Minneapolis The killing by ICE of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, is crying out legibly and inescapably to your soul, snapping into patterns your body cannot forget. Not asking for interpretation, it forces immedi...

Three shots from the side. A doctor blocked from reaching the wounded. Then Trump and Noem declare “terrorism” before the body is cold. Minneapolis has seen this script. The ground will not lie.

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The Donroe Doctrine is China's Ticket to Immediate Global Dominance The most dangerous thing the United States can do in the 21st century is start acting like a 19th-century empire again. Not because moralizing foreigners will scold us.

The post-Maduro moment is a legitimacy sprint we will not run, especially once Stephen Miller is put "in charge" of Venezuela.

China doesn’t need a shot fired in Taiwan to get what it wants. It just has to sell “Order™” while America sells extraction.

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Escape from the Death of the Author, Season 1 Episode 1: CARE COLLAPSE “I think we will reach the 10, and you won’t care.” “Who won’t care?” “You won’t care.

For when holiday lights don't shine so bright, here's ESCAPE FROM THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR.

Perfect poem drops. No feeling. So platform finds Author, but....

Here's Episode 1: CARE COLLAPSE. Links at end of each episode lead to the others, so no more links here.

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Read This Before Your Caring Becomes Optional (Ambient Masterpiece) “I think we will reach the 10, and you won’t care.” “Who won’t care?” “You won’t care.

Tyler Cowen expressed his biggest AI fear to Sam Altman, confirming that the birth of the reader need no longer be ransomed by the death of the Author.

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Chatt Hills Neighborly Post Issue No. 2: Our Postage Stamp of Native Soil Dear neighbors, and dear strangers far beyond Chattahoochee Hills, We live in a country that cannot decide what it wants to be when it grows up. We are rich and anxious, connected and lonely, powerful...

Like Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha, our “postage stamp of native soil” compresses American beauty and brutality: forests & streams, history, guilt and conflict over land and race, and stubborn hope. To know Chatt Hills is to study, tend, and re-make America in miniature.

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THE TRIAL OF SAM ALTMAN A play in four acts featuring TUCKER CARLSON as The Grand Inquisitor and a jury of our peers: MEGACHURCH PASTOR, TECH BRO, GRANDMA PATRIOT, PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER, ICE AGENT, DATA SCIENTIST, UNION MAN,...

This Thanksgiving, before your uncle starts shouting at the gravy about “real America,” pull him into a different courtroom: The Trial of Sam Altman. Tucker Carlson plays Grand Inquisitor of AI and morality, and Altman the sleepless, hapless defendant.

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So We Are Speaking Out, Now What? The 70/30 Solution Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia didn’t just survive twenty years of sprawl pressure and political toxicity. It honored and tightened its covenant—protect 70% of the land, shape growth on the other 30%—an...

America is paying attention again, so now what? The 70/30 Solution offers one proven approach for what to build with that energy.

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Under Fire, a Civic Ethic of Keeping Grows in Chattahoochee Hills Preservation, speech, and the quiet discipline of repair under threat What is taking shape in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia is not a triumph but a passage: a community learning how to hold land and one...

In a small town in Georgia uniquely successful at conserving land, a multi-racial coalition is born in hard political times.

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For the Generals Assembled: No New Oaths The room had been polished into obedience. Flags stood like spears, the carpet the purple of a healing bruise, and the lighting so flat it made every ribbon edge look sharpened.

For the Generals:

Your first oath is enough.
It doesn’t expire, doesn’t bend to names, doesn’t trade its weight for applause.
Raise no new hand.
Hold the line.

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

While Maddow coos and Harris reminisces, Trump tightens his control of the last big platform, silences opponents and cashes in. This time we have more than 107 days to fix it if we start right now.

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

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Sanction by Swarm: The New American Censorship The modern censor doesn’t swing a gavel; it raises an eyebrow—publicly. A threat on camera, a flurry of affiliate memos, an algorithmic “brand-safety” toggle, and a show vanishes before lunch.

A wink about “licenses,” an algorithmic brand-safety switch, and a show evaporates by lunch. This essay follows the path from partisan jawboning to private blackout, tracing how speech now travels through chokepoints where a nudge becomes a ban without fingerprints. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sancti...

The Home We Keep — A Myth of the Discovery of America We never stop discovering America with a neat pushing of a pin into a map. There is always coastline seen from a prow.

Glad that the vision of the "Wide Republic" I pulled together 3 days ago resonated with so many of you. As some of you noted, it is all about synthesis; even its name is just a reference to its breadth. Can it become the foundational myth we need? Perhaps.

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The Wide Republic: Necessary New Shared Story America is overdue for an idea that can hold the country together without sanding off our differences. We don’t need a new ideology so much as a new story—a way to weave the best of our progressive an...

The worse things get, the clearer the necessary new shared story for America becomes, and the harder they try to hide it. Here it is.

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Vision of the New Ladder of Service Rebuilding what AI, social media, and Trumpism broke—by giving every young American a paid year of nation‑repairing work. At dawn on a fireline in the West, teenagers in borrowed boots pass shovel to ...

AI has wiped out entry level jobs across the economy, young people don't believe in their future or their country, and where are the bold visions to restore trust, purpose, community, and the labor market? Start here!

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Truth as Care, Love as Practice: A Tribute to Dr. Joyce Essien We speak of truth and love as if they were nouns we could hold. Yet we learn—often from a teacher of rare courage—that truth is a way of walking and love is a way of working.

America and the public health world need the inspiration and healing I heard and felt on Saturday afternoon. I humbly try to share it with you in a tribute to one of the greatest teachers I have known, Dr. Joyce K. Essien.

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Labor Day in the Early Years of Machine Governance Start where the smoke was visible. Homestead, 1892: Barges slip up the Monongahela before dawn, full of Pinkertons hired to retake Carnegie’s mill.

This Labor Day we can feel the continuity between the armed conflict of the Pinkertons and steelworkers at Homestead in 1892 and the White House forcing Grok on all federal agencies, causing fewer visible scars but longer-term damage.
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