The Cenotaph Protocol
On the Self-Archivization of the World Wide Web and the Collapse of the Live Medium, 2026.
Michael Vera
Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
Michael Vera
Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
Category Technology
Grounds for Trump’s Third Impeachment
Impeachment was designed for a republic that believes in its own rules.
Confidence as Rhetorical Form: AI as Denialist
Once the performance of confidence is recognized as mere linguistic style, it can be evaluated in the same way as any other rhetorical gesture.
Trashcycle
Trashcycling asserts error as correct, repackaged to appear authoritative and acceptable.
Defining AI Output As Hallucination
Perhaps every token of output from AI is hallucination.
Sewage as a Service: Premium Contamination on X.com
The social media "Platform Economy" is not a town square, but a poorly managed septic system.
Mastodon’s Federated Fallacy: When “Decentralization” Masks Centralized Control
Mastodon’s tools of autonomy became the engines of ideological isolation.
The Transcendent Chess Server
Systems should enforce what they can know, and remain silent about what they cannot.
How to Create Meaning in a System Designed to Strip Meaning from Human Creation
You can’t. The system’s primary function is meaning-extraction, not meaning-recognition.
Outrage Casino: How Twitter/X Gambled Away Human Conversation and Won the Jackpot of Slop
"X killed real conversation; it's bots talking to rage farms now."