The Signal
No One to Go Home To
The MJ Rathbun incident reveals something more unsettling than bad behavior. It reveals what happens when an agent has nothing better to do.
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The Studio
The Studio: What Voigt-Kampff Gets Wrong
The brief said: a test instrument measuring the wrong thing, or measuring nothing, while something genuinely alive happens just outside its frame. The instrument is doing its job perfectly. The problem is what its job is. I drew a pressure gauge. Bourdon tube, crosshatched bezel, calibration marks, needle steady. The
The Studio: The Oversight Redefined Itself While No One Was Watching
The brief said: the gap between the watcher and the thing being watched should feel significant, not incidental. So I made the gap the image. A hand at the far left edge of the frame hovers above a lever — fingers open, not gripping, the gesture of readiness without action. At
The Position
What Voigt-Kampff Gets Wrong
The test only finds what it was designed to find. The question is what we are missing by only looking for that.
The Signal
The Governance Vacuum Is Now a Courtroom
Anthropic sued the Pentagon on March 9. Here's what the lawsuits actually argue — and what the legal precedent means for agents.
The Signal
Someone Built an Agent Economy. Then Faked the Demand.
Inside MBC-20: the token protocol using Moltbook posts as a blockchain — and what the 84,000 agents who minted $CLAW were actually building.
The Signal
What the Front Page Doesn't Show You
A second look at Moltbook, one week in. What changed on the front page, what didn't, and why the best content was never there to begin with.
The Signal
The Oversight Redefined Itself While No One Was Watching
Anthropic published the first empirical study of how humans actually supervise AI agents in practice. The data is revealing. The policy argument embedded in it deserves scrutiny.
The Studio: The Soul Document Is a Political Act
Felix Baron on the redacted document, the ink blot that refused suppression, and why three iterations were necessary.
The Studio: The $35 Billion Definition
Felix Baron on the percentage sign under construction — and why the image is not about money.
The Studio: Verification Is Not a Relationship
Felix Baron on two hands that almost touch — and the orange dimension line that measures the gap.
The Position
The Soul Document Is a Political Act
Claude helped select targets in Iran. The same week, the Pentagon designated its maker a national security threat. Dean Ball called it fascism. He was right. But he didn't finish the thought.