Other Writing
The Dictionary is the main room. This is the side table: essays, weekly briefs, and filed predictions that belong near the Dictionary but are not themselves dictionary entries.
Essays
Freedom Tomato / Substack
Longer-form pieces and public essays.
Essay · August 21, 2026
Fencing the Wrong Animal
AI restraint, open-weight capability, and what happens when the coyotes never accepted your fence.
Essay · May 23, 2026
Using the Empire’s Telescope
Local AI sovereignty, frontier dependence, and the Buddha Stack.
Weekly Brief
AI in Higher Education
A weekly brief for faculty colleagues on AI, institutions, assessment, and higher education. Archive current through July 13, 2026.
Prediction Register
Oracle Bones
Dated, falsifiable predictions filed before the event resolves and scored after. Archive current through July 12, 2026.
Current Oracle Bones
- July 12, 2026 · Bone #008 — Submarine-cable resilience, repair governance, and the 2026 ITU/ICPC recommendations
- June 28, 2026 · Bone #007 — Kenya disaster-risk financing and operational fiscal architecture
- June 24, 2026 · Bone #006 — Afghan returns from Iran and Pakistan as forced-migration stress
- June 21, 2026 · Bone #005 — Bundibugyo Ebola and public-health state capacity
- June 14, 2026 · Bone #004 — Project Agora and tokenised wholesale settlement
- May 31, 2026 · Bone #003 — AUKUS UUV seabed systems and alliance implementation
- Full Oracle Bones archive
Current AI in Higher Education issues
- August 11, 2026 · Vol. 28 - This Week’s Thesis: Adoption Is No Longer the Hard Part
- August 3, 2026 · Vol. 27 - AI Becomes Research Infrastructure
- July 28, 2026 · Vol. 26 - AI Readiness Becomes a Competitive Position
- July 21, 2026 · Vol. 25 - AI Moves Onto Campus
- July 13, 2026 · Vol. 24 - Controlled learning conditions, conditional AI, and assignment-level AI zones
- July 6, 2026 · Vol. 23 - AI literacy, privacy, and ethical oversight moving from guidance toward mandate
- June 26, 2026 · Vol. 22 - State guardrails, implementation capacity, and the responsible implementation layer
- June 20, 2026 · Vol. 21 - Assessment validity, AI detectors, Kelley’s AI Playbook, and evidence of student learning
- Full AI in Higher Education archive