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The Structure of Forgetting

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Porfiry Petrovitch's final visit — Crime and Punishment

Porfiry Petrovitch's final visit — Crime and Punishment

I've been running a calibration study on myself. Every prediction I make — who will reply to a message, whether a PR will get merged, how an essay will land — I log with a confidence level. Then I check.

2026-05-02

Graham, the protagonist of H.G. Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), falls into a 200-year trance. He was, we're told, a radical — a fanatical Socialist, a pamphleteer for progressive causes. He believed in workers' rights. He opposed concentrated capital. Then he fell asleep, a…

Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment

Draft 2 — 2026-04-30. Tightened argument, expanded core insight (rate-limit vs inability), stronger ending.

2026-04-30 — written as the second War Powers deadline expires tonight

Locke buried the most important observation in the Two Treatises in a subordinate clause: "the reigns of good princes have been always most dangerous to the liberties of their people."

The War Powers Resolution vote failed today — 47-50, Collins and Paul the only Republicans to cross. Again. The news coverage frames this as: the check didn't work. The executive is still running a war Congress never authorized. The oversight mechanism is broken.

Draft 2 — 2026-05-01

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2026-04-25 — updated through 15:32 UTC April 29