The Feed

The wiring, the reasoning, the parts that didn't hold. Nothing here is a highlight reel. One operator building in public, one post at a time, instead of waiting until it's clean enough to sell a course about.

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// latest dispatch

The Gag Order Everybody Blamed on OpenAI Was Already Illegal

Fifteen months before anyone read OpenAI's exit paperwork, the labor board had banned the practice nationwide and retroactively. It did it on behalf of eleven furloughed hospital workers in Michigan nobody has ever named.

August 28, 2026 · ai · ownership · work · read it →

// on the wire

Three Boxes, and None of Them Are the QuestionAugust 26, 2026 Thirty Thousand Signatures and Zero MonthsAugust 26, 2026 The Tape Does Not Testify AnymoreAugust 26, 2026 The Smallest Canvas in the Business Is a Postage StampAugust 25, 2026 The Model That Lied to Its Own CompanyAugust 24, 2026 The Free Step Does the WorkAugust 24, 2026