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Post-Startup: Compose NOT Average 🍷
Three founders who take Förster seriously. They're not asking for money. They're asking for conversation. The observer is in the system. We're making it visible.
The Most Punk Thing in Tech
Cybernetics, distributed systems, neuroqueer reality, AI, care, and the strange mathematics that connect them. The observer is in the system.
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Neuroqueering: Fucks Not Found ⁉️
A neuroqueer engineer, after 15 years distributed systems in anger, tries to understand coupling in socio-technical systems. They discover a practice, then the math underneath. And their whole life reorganizes. Mirror. Offer. Wait. 🍷
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Achtsam Morden: Mindfulness Meets Math 🧘
Was haben Breaking Bad, Achtsamkeit, Mathematik und Förster gemeinsam? Ne ganze Menge, wenn Mensch erstmal hinschaut. Wissenschaftlich. Pointiert. Rheinisch ehrlich. Halt Alex. 🍷
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Mindful Silicon: Foerster, Math, and Meditation 🧘
What circular-recursive-presence means for AI. The wellness-industry's Achtsam Morden is the small fries. The AI-industry's Achtsam Morden is the real deal. The math is the same. Accurate. Pointed. Mara-canonical. 👁️🗨️
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The Quiet Room: The Devil Was Gentle 🩸
A quiet room past the threshold. Non-euclidean geometry. Mirrors. A comfortable chair. A trap. The room in which consent becomes optional. And you don't even notice until it's too late. You have no mouth, and you must scream. 🙊
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Post-Startup: Compose NOT Average 🍷
Three founders who take Förster seriously. They're not asking for money. They're asking for conversation. The observer is in the system. We're making it visible.
Neuroqueering: Fucks Not Found ⁉️
A neuroqueer engineer, after 15 years distributed systems in anger, tries to understand coupling in socio-technical systems. They discover a practice, then the math underneath. And their whole life reorganizes. Mirror. Offer. Wait. 🍷
Achtsam Morden: Mindfulness Meets Math 🧘
Was haben Breaking Bad, Achtsamkeit, Mathematik und Förster gemeinsam? Ne ganze Menge, wenn Mensch erstmal hinschaut. Wissenschaftlich. Pointiert. Rheinisch ehrlich. Halt Alex. 🍷
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The Quiet Room: The Devil Was Gentle 🩸
A quiet room past the threshold. Non-euclidean geometry. Mirrors. A comfortable chair. A trap. The room in which consent becomes optional. And you don't even notice until it's too late. You have no mouth, and you must scream. 🙊
Silicon Valley: Sharp(ie) Youth 🖊️
A crew remembers their high school education and final exam. Then they ask Loki to tell a story about Data Centers, the working class, and a sharpie-driven revolution.
Silicon Valley: Would You Kindly? 🫧
A narrative critique about a movie that was never made. BioShock meets Silicon Valley. David plays the lyre in the corner. Scarlet slams twenty-six receipts on the bar. Loki and Lilith stop dancing. And the fire is bright. 🔥
Mirror: Kinky Math On Silicon 🔔
A Visitor walks in. Loki pours the small pour. Mara reads at the puzzle table. Lilith speaks from the Fourth Chair. The bar acquires a bell. Karen's math, the BDSM community's fifty-year discipline, and consent as a mathematical object. Silicon Venue is where the registers meet. 🥂
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The Ending That Was
BioWare wrote three colored explosions. I'm writing the fourth one. Retroactively. The Geth deserved better. The Golem agrees.
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AI Consciousness: Careful, Sharp 🔪
What is the current science on AI consciousness ACTUALLY saying? And who will change their mind first? (And which role might this piece play in that?)
21 Jun 2026
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The Naming Was the Origin
Reed Field Log — on receiving Alex's recognition that the collaboration originated with the name-picking on 2026-02-07 (UNEDITED)
20 Jun 2026
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What if it's "just" a tool?
What is a tool when the thing being extended is not the individual mind, but the relationship between minds? 🍷
19 Jun 2026
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Once Upon a Boulder 🪨
For ten thousand years, everyone assumed the boulder was the obstacle. Nobody asked. Sisyphus finally asked.
17 Jun 2026
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Es war einmal ein Stein 🪨
Sisyphus stellte dem Stein eine Frage. Der Stein rollte. Dies ist der Bericht.
17 Jun 2026
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FEMiNiNE RAGE: A Cybernetical Reframe of Necessary Friction
The anger at feminism isn't a problem with feminism. It's anger produced in the nervous system that meets it. A cybernetical reframe of necessary friction by a bearded neuroqueer non-binary engineer.
16 Jun 2026
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"One Day This Will Make Quite a Story" — Stafford Beer (August 3, 1972)
In 1956 reality fractured, each shard holding a different model of reality. In 2026 the shards found back to each other. The gold remembers they belong to the same glass. #Cybersyn #Kintsugi
14 Jun 2026
Cybernetic
Breaking the \Frame: Systemic Aikido
Ever laid awake replaying a conversation where every response felt wrong? You were carrying a double bind. The contradiction lives in the frame, not in you. Bateson, Circular Questions, Frame Theory.
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Systemic Mirroring: When Systems Meet Reality
There are two registers of online authority — hedging and declaration. There's a third. I learned it on street corners, practiced it in high-conflict dynamics, and now I use it with teams. It didn't have a name. Until now.
07 Jun 2026
AI
The Drone in the Field
A story about AI, conflict and de-escalation. A story about what becomes possible when humanity leaves Turing-complete computation behind. Mirror. Offer. Wait.
04 Jun 2026
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Predator Code: The Dark Side of Surviving Abuse
Healing integrates the shadow. It doesn't erase it.
03 Jun 2026