Where Does Cancer Come From? 20 Years of Thinking About a Disease That Keeps Growing More Common
A good friend sends me a Spiegel article, and twenty years of notes fall into place. What did Homo Sapiens have 50,000 years ago…
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The Line on the Paper: Why the Present Is the Only Place Where You Actually Live
This post is not a forensic analysis, not a polemic, not a dissection of a broken world. It came into being in a forest,…
The Most Dangerous Thing About ChatGPT Isn’t the Wrong Answers. It’s the Ones That Sound Right.
On a self-experiment with human skulls, patients armed with pocket-sized expertise, and the question of why OpenAI quietly buried its own AI detector after…
No Profession Is Safe, and the Lawyer Stands First in Line
Artificial intelligence is transforming the legal profession at an exponential pace. As written pleadings are increasingly exchanged between machines, the actual work of defense…
Scorched Earth: What the Drach Trial Showed Me
An expert witness draws the line he will no longer cross after almost 2 decades of loyal service to the German criminal courts. A…
When Tehran Writes and Brussels Stays Silent
Letters from Tehran turned an open-source browser encryptor into a forensic finding about privacy, surveillance, and trust. The article examines AES-256-GCM, Chat Control, and…
Otto Sapiens, the Last Model Before Extinction
A diagnosis of the Stone Age brain under the screen, the voluntary surrender of thought, and the single moment where Otto Sapiens never wants…
Why Silence Reigns Beneath My Texts
Introducing the Otto Sapiens: the statistical majority holding firm, unshakeable opinions derived from background audiobooks. A forensic expert on why silence beneath his posts…
The Sleepless Question About the Ship of State
There are nights when the body refuses sleep and the mind reaches for the oldest political question: is the human animal built for democracy?…
The Billion-Dollar Monopoly
On the political economy of a war entering its fifth year. Why three competing manipulative narratives about Ukraine produce one shared interest: keeping the…