Issue No. 5 · July 21, 2026
Nine Hundred Million Synthetic Souls
AI is not just replacing professional expertise. It is replacing the professionals themselves — with identities that don't eat, don't sleep, and don't make billing errors.
Collapse of the Professions · Synthetic Personas · Memoir: FedMine & The Frozen Weights
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Issue No. 4 · July 14, 2026
The Professions Are Not Being Disrupted. They Are Being Decoupled From Value Itself.
Law, medicine, media, and finance built their authority on scarce expertise. AI just made expertise abundant.
The Collapse of the Professions · The Escape Risk · Memoir: FedMine
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Issue No. 3 · April 14, 2026
The Universe Built You From Stardust. China Is Building the Future From Gigawatts.
A Carl Sagan calculation, a power grid comparison, and what it means to build something from nothing — twice.
Energy & Compute · The Sagan Calculation · Memoir: SMAC & FEDMINE
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Issue No. 2 · April 7, 2026
When the Machine Becomes Its Own Teacher
Recursive self-improvement, the end of human excellence, and a Plymouth Duster that got me pulled over five times.
Recursive Self-Improvement · Wealth & Inequality · Memoir: Cleveland
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Issue No. 1 · March 31, 2026
Forty Years Late, and Right on Time
The AI era I enrolled for in 1987 has finally arrived — and everything that happened in between was preparation.
The Threshold · Pain & Entropy · Memoir: India to Miami
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