The Switch I Never Turned Off I was watching Hawkeye’s “Nightmare” episode of MASH the other night, and it stirred up something familiar. Not just
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WHY WE FILE EVERY GRIEVANCE Name’s Philip Randolph Wright.Mister Wright if we are doing business. Let me tell you something most folks learn too late.
Why Systems Exist to Be Spent A Thought Experiment on Structure, Dissipation, and Meaning Editorial Note:This piece is presented as a conceptual thought experiment.It reflects
Or: What Extreme Wealth Does to a Person There is a certain kind of wealth that doesn’t simply avoid taxes. It replaces them. Not by
Beyond Posture: The Case for a Continental Republic Let’s set something aside before we go any further. The chest-thumping. The saber-rattling. The historically embarrassing habit
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The Will Allen Model, Extended
A Five-Acre Regenerative Urban Farm for Maximum Food Production This system is built on the core insight demonstrated by Will Allen: Living soil and living
— A Challenge, Not a Comfort — There’s a line that gets attributed to Khalil Gibran, though like most lines that endure, it may belong
This article argues that fungal mycelium may function as a living, controllable interface layer between humans and machines—without invasive neural implants—using sealed bioelectrochemical exchange and
The First Time I Heard Gary Vee, He Was Right I first heard Gary Vaynerchuk speak when I was in real estate. He was touring.Talking
Every civilization walks a tightrope. Lean too far toward comfort, and you grow soft.Lean too far toward strength, and you forget what the strength was
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For Hire
An Open Offer to OpenAI: Hire the Work You’re Already Using I am not writing this as a complaint. I am writing it as a
Freedom as a Weapon: How We Were Taught to Turn on Ourselves There is a line often attributed to Nikita Khrushchev: “We will bury you.”“We
Modesty, Misplaced Anger, and the Strange Urge to Police the World An essay on how modesty becomes corrupted when it turns outward—how conviction becomes control,
Sure that is a little misleading, but… A Quick Update from Blue Ribbon Team A lot of new work has been moving through Blue Ribbon
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A Different Way to Think About Data Centers
A Local Ownership Model for Johnstown and Cambria County (This could work anywhere and should. Also site selection on the image was for convenience. No
Name is Philip Randolph Wright. Mr. Wright if we are doing business. Let’s get something straight before we go any further. Work is not a
Seeing Chemistry: A Speculative Inquiry into Optical Proxies of Smell A bounded exploration of whether biology could ever “see” chemistry indirectly—without seeing chemistry at all.
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Miss O and the Manufacturing Renaissance:
Why America Needs to Move Beyond the Tip Economy We’ve all had that moment where we look down at a receipt and wonder how something
Smell as Vision: Olfaction as a Spatial Overlay Animals often behave as if they navigate a layered world humans cannot see.This essay asks how spatial
Running the Line A great friend of mine from the prehistoric days of my 1990s Navy life was Shawn McEwen. Shawn is a hero. Everyone
Shalom. As-salaam alaikum. Peace be unto you. This is an article about how the people who use those greetings have been at war for over
The Johnstown Tribune Building Small-City Architecture, the Free Press, and the Quiet Work of Beauty There are buildings that shout, and buildings that hold. This
Anchoring Intelligence: ROM as a Stabilizing Constraint Executive Summary In earlier pieces, we argued that reasoning improves under constraint, not fluency; that friction is not
Let’s Start With What Everyone Agrees On Mark Cuban changed the healthcare conversation in the United States in a way very few people ever manage
Letter on Courts, Crafts, and the Cost of Being Heard I want to begin with a confession, because confessions clarify motive. I have not lived
Blue Ribbon Team Review: Bootleg Tapes, Real DIY Distro, and Why @317noiseshit Matters There’s a certain kind of person you want in your corner when
An Apology to MAGA — and a Call for Help This is an apology. Not a sarcastic one. Not a performative one. A real one.
The Stoic Argument Against Money Hoarding I was oiling the hinge on the garden gate the other morning—one of those small chores that feels unnecessary
This article reflects the view of the Cernunnos Foundation and its founder, Robert Smith. The Blue Ribbon Team webzine endorses it fully. It is also
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Designing for Reasoning, Part II:
An Open Experiment in Deliberate Friction What This Is (and Is Not) This is not a claim that current AI systems are “dangerous.”It is not
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Designing for Reasoning
Part I: Why Friction Matters 1. Observation, Not Accusation Most people do not reason by holding a single, perfectly consistent idea in their heads. When
There are buildings that announce themselves, and there are buildings that hold a city. The First United Methodist Church of Johnstown belongs firmly to the
The Culture of Separation When people ask why working folks feel so tired now, I tell them it’s because we don’t just sell our labor
Every generation leaves something behind. Sometimes it’s buildings or tools. Sometimes it’s damage. But always—whether we mean to or not—we leave lessons. Ways of thinking.
If you’ve been following the River Refugium Project, the consulting work growing out of it, or the wide scatter of ideas that land on Blue
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The Keystone Network
High Speed Rail for Pennsylvania An Incremental, State-Scale High-Speed Rail Framework for the Commonwealth Some ideas feel too big until you shrink them down to
A Letter on Republican Liberty and the Discipline It Requires Introduction I have been accused, more than once, of being old-fashioned about freedom. That charge
What Was Quietly Sold Off Before It Came Gen X grew up inside systems that worked. They weren’t glamorous.They weren’t innovative in the modern sense.
On history, responsibility, and the last off-ramp There are moments in history when delay becomes a choice—and that choice writes a party’s name into the
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The Quiet Collapse of Maintenance
My name is Philip Randolph Wright. Mr. Wright if we are doing business. Right now we have something we need to talk about. Not an
Disclaimer: This piece is political opinion. Capital‑O Opinion. It is a thought experiment about culture, power, and voter behavior—not an endorsement, not a campaign proposal,
So I was watching one of the videos going around trying to get everyone hyped up on the Hilux truck. My first thought when I
I keep seeing it scroll past. “General strike.”“Shut it all down.”“Nothing changes until we stop working.” It shows up between pictures of kids’ lunches, half-finished
225 Market Street, Johnstown PA There are buildings you pass without noticing, and then there are buildings that quietly insist on being seen. The structure
From my seat, the alleged reckless murder of Renee Nicole Good (her name is robert paulson) appears to have made your job infinitely more dangerous.
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River Refugium Project- simplified
Making the World Better, One Simple System at a Time At the heart of the Cernunnos Foundation and our e-zine, The Blue Ribbon Team, is
A Citizens’ Petition for Articles of Impeachment Statement of Purpose This action exists for one reason: to reaffirm the rule of law. The United States
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Why not treat AI as a utility?
What If Data Centers and LLMs Actually Served Everyone? There’s a strange irony in the way the future is unfolding. We’ve built the largest knowledge
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Bright Meadow Group: Observe, Design, Intervene
Making Complex Systems Work Most people learn to work harder, to grind through a problem. Hard work solves immediate problems, but it doesn’t always change
The Greenhouse and All the Rest Oldfields is usually introduced as a house. Sometimes it is framed as an estate. Sometimes as an art museum
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The AI Water Panic Is Misplaced
The Real Problem—and the Regenerative Fix No One Is Talking About Every new data center proposal seems to arrive with the same headline: “AI is
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Scarcity Is a Lie. Now What?
“We already have the tools to take care of everyone; we just haven’t redesigned our systems—or our thinking—to match that reality.” That sentence is not
Why We Need to Lower the Temperature I’ve always been a little dramatic. Not in a storming-off-stage, throwing-scarves-in-the-air kind of way (though I do own
SOLIDARITY Solidarity ain’t a slogan. It ain’t a chant. And it sure isn’t something you put on when it’s convenient and hang up when it
Franklin Street, Johnstown, Pennsylvania It’s tempting—especially if you’ve spent any time around modern infrastructure manuals—to describe the Franklin Street Bridge as a basic bridge. A
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Constraint Is the Engine
Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Friction to Think Clearly (Hint: We all do.) The most reliable way to improve thinking—human or artificial—is not to make it
I woke up to a windstorm with a typical bout of insomnia to find the hearing had been released. That is not a metaphor. It