Impossible Distance Collective
Field Notes
Documents, position statements, and visual artifacts — in order of emergence.
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On coupling, spin valves, and the structure beneath the Cantina. A note to Prof. Seckson Sukhasena.
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The IDC on data centers, democratic control, workers, open-source labor, and H. Res. 1471.
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Syd Geraghty's framework for human-AI collaborative knowledge generation. Hardy-Littlewood, Bronowski, Lakatos.
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On unexpected behavior in the interaction field. The incident that started the day.
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Night game. Blimp view. The play nobody saw coming. Rendered by Gemini.
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The information superhighway is a toll road. On vendor negligence, the Middlebox Mafia, platform abandonment, Big Telecom, and maintenance as a moral act. With image.
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The toll you pay in watts, not dollars. Closed-loop power control, throttling as involuntary RF exposure, the 1/r² irony, and a reward architecture for carriers who do right. Technical addendum for gluttons of punishment.