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A Government That Mistakes Control for Power
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AI Is a Gift to People Who Want to Leave the System
The most political thing about artificial intelligence may not be what it allows governments to do.
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The Country That No One Is Steering
How the Chinese Communist Party mistook administrative control for control of history.
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The Grip and the Sand
How the fear of losing control becomes a system for losing what matters.
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The Internet Is Becoming Harder to Border
Networks keep making geography cheaper while states still depend on making geography matter.
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The Rooster That Thought It Made the Sun Rise
When a boom lasts long enough, luck becomes skill, skill becomes theory, and theory becomes mytholog
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When the Whale Falls, Ten Thousand Things Are Born
The boomerang the Chinese Communist Party wrote for its own future.
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You Have Never Tried Breaking It Apart
The strange politics of demanding certainty from every future except the present.
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The Cowardice of the Communist Party
The revolution that killed the king and learned to fear history.
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