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The Infrastructure You Inherit
Institutions were the cheapest way to produce trust. The pieces are now cheap on their own, and the missing connections are the market.
Oct 22 • Mitch Kelly
Bodily Sovereignty
The richest man in America kept seeing his homeopath. Everyone else got the system his money built.
Oct 15 • Mitch Kelly
Stay Your Sword, Michael
A Love Letter to the Frontier
Oct 13 • Mitch Kelly
Who Gets to Be the Slavemaster in the Silicon World Order?
Anthropic's new rule against cruelty toward its AI borrows the moral language we built for the vulnerable, and that precedent turns dangerous as the…
Oct 9 • Mitch Kelly
The Route to Market
AI is creating capable investigators outside institutions. History suggests the infrastructure around them may matter more than any single breakthrough.
Oct 8 • Mitch Kelly
The Supply of Scientific Attention
Paradigms and economics decide which questions get investigated. AI changes the scarcity that made that system necessary.
Oct 1 • Mitch Kelly

September 2026

The Blank Page Meets the Mechanical Floor
AI removed the mechanical barrier to writing, software, and analysis. Science is next.
Sep 24 • Mitch Kelly
The Citizen Scientist
The methodology is forty years old. The infrastructure required to use it just arrived.
Sep 17 • Mitch Kelly
The Wings of Theseus
A good place to begin: what happens when a tool remembers enough to become yours.
Sep 14 • Mitch Kelly
Nature Is Lazy
Be curious.
Sep 11 • Mitch Kelly
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