Writing
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Is Anthropic vital for US Security?
On Wednesday, April 8, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned the CEOs of America’s largest banks to an urgent, unscheduled meeting. The subject was a single AI model — Claude Mythos Preview, built by Anthropic
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The Wrong Argument
The public debate about AI displacement focuses on headline layoffs — visible, contested, and partially fabricated. The real mechanism is quieter. Vertical AI platforms embedded in industry software absorb labor through updates, one unbackfilled position at a time. By the time the data catches up, the displacement is structural.
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Notes on David French’s “How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?”
David French describes America’s tiered economy as a cultural problem. It’s not. It’s the result of deliberate policy decisions over four decades — weakening labor, favoring capital, enabling buybacks — that recalibrated who the economy serves. AI will compress the number of humans capital needs even further.
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Coal and Steel
The comparison between AI and coal isn’t about technology. It’s about cognitive lock-in — what happens when an entire economy organizes around one assumption and can’t see the disruption because it’s inside it. Germany did everything right and still produced 38% poverty in Gelsenkirchen. That’s not the failure story. That’s the success story.
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My Claude Wishlist
I use Claude for intellectual work: developing arguments across sessions, stress-testing ideas, writing essays, and building software. It’s the most productive working relationship I’ve had with a tool — and I keep running into the same wall.
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Not Yet
'Not yet' is not a reassurance. It's a diagnosis. Anthropic's own research shows a 14% drop in job-finding rates for young workers in AI-exposed fields. The data says the displacement hasn't hit yet. The structure says it's already underway. I grew up inside that gap in Gelsenkirchen — I know what it looks like when 'not yet' becomes 'too late.'
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Beyond the Black Box
How Markdown's marked extension API turned five verbose YAML sections into one clean component — and why I never noticed the capability was there all along.
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The Boats That Found Me
The stadium form came from Gelsenkirchen — from Schalke, from the industrial geometry of the Ruhrpott. But another shape found me in California, and it came from the water.
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The Shapes That Stay
In "The Other Side of Things," I wrote about returning to art-making after a ten-year hiatus. What surprised me is that some things apparently never left.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - SEO Without External Dependencies
Implementing SEO for a bilingual Eleventy site using templates instead of plugins—covering meta tags, Open Graph, hreflang, JSON-LD structured data, and sitemaps.