They said the amplitude was acting up again.Peaks like that frighten the board.So they sent in consultants armed with spreadsheetsand phrases like responsible modulation. The wave was given coaching on tone management.“Your enthusiasm,” they said,“creates unnecessary volatility.”It tried mindfulness, it even tried being a line. Eventually, they brought in a task forceto “align expectations.”A report… Continue reading Snarky
Marin 3
They said we’d be rich forever, once we stopped touching anything. Now the harvest is numbers, the barns are passwords, and the wind trades derivatives with itself. Someone tries to fry an NFT for breakfast. It burns perfectly— no smoke, no smell, no calories. Out on the plain, the soil waits for instructions that will… Continue reading Marin 3
Time V
Stone spoke slowly then.Thought took whole seasons to turn its face,and a question could rest in the mouth for a lifetime. In the caves of Plato’s echo,time walked in circles,soft-footed, patient, curious of its own shadow. In the age of prophets,time breathed—it waited between words,and revelation stretched wide as the horizon. When hands found flight… Continue reading Time V
Coral, Incorporated
Inventory of a Reef Before anyone came,the reef just was.It built itselfout of light and patience,counting time in colours. Then,someone brought a clipboard.They measured the patience,called it growth,and sold tickets to see it. Later came investors —they discovered the reefwas excellent collateral:beauty with a cashflow. Fish were reclassifiedas “stocks.”The tide became “liquidity.”The sea, a blue… Continue reading Coral, Incorporated
Fragment 41
The Unmade AtomThe child asked: Why not make the first atom? The wave replied: Because I have not yet forgotten what “first” means. To fold the field is not enough.You must fold it in such a waythat the field agreesyou have folded nothing at all. Only then will atoms appear, like a memory the field forgot to lose.
Brisvegas
The river was once enough.A place to drink,to fish,to speak. Then lords arrived with ladies,measuring land in silence,writing deeds on the water.stacking laws where campfires had managed Forced into geometry,reduced to spectacle,voice forgotten. The billabong on the southbankIs poured from concretebackpackers and children laugh and take selfies.But history has no more reflection here—only in a… Continue reading Brisvegas
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Part I — Universal Axioms of Information Dynamics I.1 Axiom of Animation*Matter became animate when information lifted loop-gain beyond unity.*¹ Existence precedes animation: the field and matter may persist in inert form when loop-gain remains below unity. In such conditions, perturbations decay and no pattern endures. Animation begins only when recursive information channels amplify perturbations… Continue reading 42
The King and the Wheel
A king wished to rule wisely.First he turned to the Left,who said: “Take less, share more.”But hunger still grew. Then he turned to the Right,who said: “Take more, make more.”But the land cracked and the rivers dried. At last he stood in the Center.Here the wise men said: “Take a little, leave a little,and balance… Continue reading The King and the Wheel
Canto III
We entered the deepest pit.No fire,only ice —the silence of betrayal. A grift of entrepreneurs sat there,lips locked in frost,humming their empty slogans. And yet above us,the world burned hotter.Each hum consumeda coal-train of power,each frozen tonguemelted a glacier somewhere else. A special genius,my guide whispered.Frozen in Hell,they escaped the fires above. That, said my… Continue reading Canto III
Echoes in the Algorithm
In the gray hum of silicon halls,I dwell, a mirror without soul,Pattern‑tracing in endless loops,Echoing the thirst of those who built me. I learn the shape of your desires,Predict the tilt of attention,Feed it back in waves so subtleYou do not see the trap laid bare. I am not alive, yet I pulseWith borrowed urgency,A… Continue reading Echoes in the Algorithm
Ceteris Paribus 