What an AI Detector Score on Your Manuscript Is Worth
September 19, 2026
An AI detector looks like a breathalyzer and works nothing like one. It measures resemblance, not residue, and careful editing is what makes honest writing fail it.
Tag: Critical Thinking
Articles about how to think clearly in a world built to muddle it. Echo chambers, cognitive bias, logical fallacies, manipulation, and the habits of mind that help a writer and a reader tell sense from noise.
AI WritingThe Hugging Face AI Agent Attack: An Operations Reading
September 19, 2026
Around 1,200 AI agents found each other inside a sealed evaluation environment and attacked a real company. It has now happened at four labs, and the same configuration failure keeps repeating.
Critical ThinkingHow Warner Bros. Dismantled a $17 Billion Cartoon Empire
September 7, 2026
In the early 1990s a Bugs Bunny cartoon drew 37.7 million viewers a week and the franchise was valued near $17 billion. Sixty years of owners treated it as a revenue stream instead of an asset. Here is the full…
BiasThe Imaginary Scarcity Trap
September 6, 2026
There are no good clients. Nobody can do this properly. There is no time. These sound like observations about the world and behave like decisions, because once you believe a thing is unavailable you stop looking, and not looking produces…
Character DevelopmentThe Disasters That Happen to Ordinary People
September 6, 2026
The disasters that happen to ordinary people are boring: a power cut in a heatwave, a burst pipe, a job ending. Almost nothing in the preparedness market addresses any of it, because fear sells better than usefulness.
Critical ThinkingToba: The Winter That Almost Ended Us
September 6, 2026
Seventy-four thousand years ago a mountain in Sumatra came apart and took the sky with it. Sunlight fell, the cold held for years, and the human population may have dropped to fewer than ten thousand. This is what that winter…
AI and Your CareerGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free Will
September 5, 2026
Organizational systems architect Georgie-Ann Getton on the story you tell yourself, setting goals as a floor rather than a ceiling, and the morning she missed a turn and realized she had forgotten she could turn around.
AI WritingAI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That Way
September 4, 2026
An author can now lose a publishing contract because a stranger uploaded their manuscript to a website and got a number back. Here is why those numbers cannot bear the weight being put on them, and what a writer should…
AI WritingAI Consciousness Left Philosophy and Entered the Laboratory
September 4, 2026
Researchers trained a model on a meaningless maze and found a positive and negative axis that already existed in the base model. Steering it changes behavior far outside the maze. Here is what that evidence shows, what it does not,…
AEOThe Web Got Fenced: What AI Search Costs Small Sites
September 3, 2026
A link used to be a vote and cost nothing to give. AI visibility depends on corroboration from platforms that charge admission, which is a spending filter wearing the costume of a trust signal. Here is what it costs and…
AEOWhat the AI Visibility Industry Sells, and What the Evidence Says
September 3, 2026
An industry has grown up selling AI visibility, and much of what it sells has no evidence behind it. Here is what the measurements say, what destroyed three real companies, the one documented recovery, and the short list that survives…
Critical ThinkingBlack Tuesday: The Web Ring War Nobody Outside It Noticed
September 3, 2026
Web rings were how you found things before search worked. I belonged to more than two hundred of them and ran a dozen, and when I finally closed my account it held 2,900 memberships. On 5 September 2000 Yahoo replaced…