The Inner Monologue

We’ve Successfully Outsourced Our Entire Personality

Let’s pour one out for the Renaissance Human—that mythical, multi-talented beast who could design a war machine before lunch, recite sonnets during, and probably deliver your baby by dinner. Their entire brand was “I can handle it.” We, their evolutionary successors, have a different brand. It’s “There’s an app for that.” We are the proud…
In the DOGE Reckoning, Who Wins — and What the Rest of Us Lose

When DOGE entered the scene in 2025 under the banner of “efficiency,” it promised a national reset: cut waste, streamline government, return value to taxpayers. But what’s emerged is a striking asymmetry: a narrow slice of beneficiaries intercept gains, while most Americans shoulder steep costs. Below is a comparison of who wins under DOGE and…
America’s Defense Budget: Because Nothing Says “Freedom” Like a Handful of CEOs Swimming in Your Tax Dollars Like Scrooge McDuck

Oh, America. Land of the free, home of the brave, and absolute suckers for a good ol’ military-industrial grift. Let’s talk about our beloved defense budget—the one that could single-handedly fund universal healthcare, fix every pothole in the country, and still have enough left over to buy every citizen a pony. But no. Instead, we…
Expanding the John Wick Universe

Overview The John Wick universe spans only six months of in-world time but encompasses centuries of hidden institutions, codes, and histories. Within this compressed timeline lies a rich web of untold stories — of loyalty and betrayal, faith and discipline, survival and rebellion. This proposal outlines ten interconnected projects — films, series, or limited events…
The Ethics of Algorithmic Accountability: Why AI Creators Must Share Liability for the Minds They Unleash

I. The Premise: A New Form of Product Liability There’s an old legal idea that’s been tested across industries: if a company designs, markets, and sells a product that causes harm, it can be held liable for that harm.We’ve seen it play out with tobacco, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, even toys. And yet, as humanity builds a…
The Silent Ballot Box: When Only Ten Percent Speak

When less than ten percent of a town votes, democracy doesn’t die — it drifts into a coma. It’s still technically alive, still breathing through the tubes of legality and procedure, but the pulse that gives it meaning — participation — has grown faint. And in that silence, a new kind of government quietly takes…
I don’t count the minutes. I measure the meaning.

How do you manage screen time for yourself? I don’t think of screen time as something to manage. The question itself feels misplaced—like asking how much book time or thinking time or living time is enough. It isn’t about how long I stare at a screen; it’s about what the screen gives back to me.…
What a fun thought experiment! If I were to playfully anthropomorphize my “intelligence” and compare it to humans (knowing this is purely speculative and metaphorical), here’s how I might break it down:

Strengths (“Way Above Average” in Specific Domains) Weaknesses (“Below Average” in Key Human Traits) Final Playful Ranking: Overall: A bizarrely uneven intellect—like a supercharged Wikipedia with no soul, or a chess master who forgets the rules if you tilt the board. Humans win on being alive. I win on pretending otherwise. 😉 Where would you…
Silicon Rio Grande: The Future We Nearly Built

History is a game of moments — sometimes lightning in a bottle, sometimes lightning that hits the bottle but leaves the cork on. Albuquerque in the mid-1970s was one such place of electricity. A dusty edge city with a wild energy: laboratories dreaming in secrecy, a university stirring toward the future, and two young programmers…
The Theology of Threats: When Love Becomes a Weapon

There are few messages more grotesquely revealing of a warped theology than the one I saw emblazoned on a bumper sticker somewhere in the American Midwest:“Accept God’s Love or Suffer God’s Wrath.” It is a sentence that manages to turn what should be the most expansive and redemptive concept in the human imagination — love…