Agents of Humanity Draft White Paper
Human Skills for a Second Enlightenment
Power and systems
Power is buried in systems and distributed in stories. Once we see it, we can shift it.
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From custom to conscience: calling bullshit on old thinking
Premarital sex, power literacy, chocolate cake: in. Class structures, outdated morality, fruit cake: out.
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How AI will enshittify - and what you can do about it.
The value added by any technology product tends to erode. In the absence of regulation, here's a practical resistance strategy to protect yourself.
Is 2026 the Year of the Terse Email?
Why my fridge is an unaccountability machine and you might need to put your consumer rights pants on.
WTF do you want? Desire is suspicious; productivity a scam.
First Friday Flurry of 2026 goes hard.
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2026: The State of It
Bullshit is up, accountability is down. Here are three trends to watch and three skills to master.
The more power, the less freedom
Power comes at a price. Here's a few receipts.
"Isms" are not people
Does calling people racist protect racist systems? Maybe.
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Scrolling is the new smoking
Tech giants have copied Big Tobacco’s playbook - and it works.
Nepotism, networks and human connection
On finding an afterschool job and buying a duvet in the current digital WTF-scape + BRING BACK LANDLINES
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Critical thinking is not enough. It's time you learned about power
Numbers and words are cool, but we have calculators and ChatGPT now. What you need is POWER LITERACY.
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Big things should be good for us
Cos you're worth it. Public value, private plunder, and general purpose technology.