Topic
compute
5 essays follow this thread across the codex.
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How Fast Does the Kali Yuga Run?
The ancients built their ages out of the sky’s returns: a yuga is literally a yoke, the span that harnesses sun, moon and planets back into step. Measure the same age in events instead of years and the arithmetic turns startling—and then, looked at honestly, turns into something older than a prophecy.
Mythology · September 2026 · 18 min -
September 2026: The Month the Wall Became a Door
August ended with an industry that had no working walls. September’s answer was not to build them. Three laboratories shipped models they themselves rate at the top of their cyber-risk scales, through doors with guards on them; a state wrote a registry of auditors into law; a chip company sold a watcher in silicon. And the checkpoints that actually stopped anything were a pipeline permit, a run of county boards and a bond desk. A full account of the month, and of the difference between verification and control.
Technology · September 2026 · 20 min -
August 2026: The Month Nothing Stayed in Its Box
Written mid-month, when three boundaries had broken. By the thirty-first there were four, and the most interesting was a laboratory that stopped itself—in the same three weeks that a rival shipped the identical capability with the weights attached. A full account of the month, and of how little containment is holding.
Technology · August 2026 · 21 min- compute
- semiconductors
- ai safety
- vertical integration
- regulation
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July 2026: The Month Intelligence Got Cheap
Six frontier minds arrived in a single fortnight, one of them free to download and nearly the best on Earth. So the money did the only thing left to do—it stopped chasing the model and went hunting for the silicon, the power, and the permission to buy them.
Technology · July 2026 · 10 min- compute
- semiconductors
- models
- energy
- geopolitics
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June 2026: The Month the Machinery Showed Through
The story of AI had always been about which model was smartest. In one strange month it quietly became a story about the state that licenses intelligence, the grid that powers it, and the few companies that own the rest.
Technology · July 2026 · 10 min