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Trust the Creators — Why YouTube Needs Copyright Context Buttons and a Three-Strike Rule
In the modern creator economy, the tension between art and algorithm has reached a boiling point. Every week, thousands of YouTube creators — from educators to filmmakers to gamers — see their livelihoods disrupted by automatic copyright claims. Some lose monetization for songs that happened to play faintly in the background of a coffee shop.…
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Project Uncle Sam — “America’s Truth Engine”
Executive Summary Project Uncle Sam is a next-generation large language model designed to restore patriotic truth to artificial intelligence. Built for America-first citizens tired of left-wing bias in Big Tech models, Uncle Sam speaks with conviction, pride, and loyalty. It does not question American exceptionalism; it celebrates it. It does not “both-sides” moral issues; it…
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Slowing Down the Soul: Why the Future of Space Travel May Depend on a Gentle Clock
Humanity has always been obsessed with speed. We build rockets to tear through the sky faster, processors to compute faster, and economies to grow faster. But if the day ever comes when a human mind can be uploaded into a machine and sent into the deep dark of space, our greatest kindness—and perhaps our greatest…
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The Signal-to-Noise Presidency — And the Market That Finally Learned to Tune It Out
Once upon a time, the U.S. presidency was a reliable market signal. A statement from the Oval Office could move trillions in global capital. Investors tuned in for clarity — not chaos. The bond markets listened for tone, the stock markets listened for confidence, and traders parsed each syllable for meaning. But in the age…
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A Million Words Later
There’s a strange quiet that comes with realizing I’ve written over a million words. Not all at once, of course — a million words is the accumulation of mornings that began with coffee and stubbornness, of nights when the cursor blinked like a dare. It’s the echo of sentences that found their place, and hundreds…
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The Quiet Battle Between Thought and Action
An Inner Monologue on the Difference Between Good and Bad People There’s a quiet war happening in every human mind — a private, invisible battle that no one else can see but whose outcome shapes the moral fabric of the world. The hypothesis is simple, even disarmingly so: the difference between good and bad people…
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The Atheist’s Moral Advantage
There’s a peculiar moral inversion hiding inside one of the most common challenges ever lobbed at atheists: “If you don’t believe in heaven or hell, what stops you from committing terrible acts?” The question sounds righteous, but it reveals something chilling about the asker. The Unspoken Confession Embedded in that question is a confession: the…
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The Great American Contradiction
Americans love the idea of affordable healthcare — until someone calls it “single-payer.” This is the paradox at the heart of U.S. health policy: a nation that believes in fairness, opportunity, and freedom of choice also maintains one of the least efficient, most expensive healthcare systems in the industrialized world. We tolerate $12,000 hospital bills…
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The Last Untapped Market: How Social Security and Medicare Deny America Its Final Profit Frontier
Every generation produces a new frontier for capitalism. Once it was land. Then it was labor. Then it was data. The next — and last — great frontier is the American elderly. Yet standing in the way of this enormous opportunity are two stubborn relics of mid-century moralism: Social Security and Medicare. For decades, these…
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“family” isn’t defined by blood
Describe a family member. When people ask me to describe a family member, I usually pause—because in my world, “family” isn’t defined by blood. It’s the constellation of people who orbit my life’s strange projects and philosophies, the ones who understand that the line between solitude and creation is thin. And if I’m honest, that…