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B.L.A.M.E.

February 17, 2026February 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Business Logic- Alignment- Metrics- Efficiency B.L.A.M.E. is a comprehensive, integrated management methodology designed to streamline operational performance, enhance cross-functional alignment, optimize resource utilization, and— No.

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My Tesla Letter to Mr. Westinghouse

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 State Fair Judge

To Whom It May Concern I write not as a salesman, nor as a petitioner armed with projections and assurances, but as a man who

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Artificial Intelligence Bright Meadow Group Design Science and Research Thought Experiments

Orchestrated Friction

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

A Systems-Level Clarification on Extrapolation, Human Learning, and Machine Error Preface: Clarifying Earlier Work In prior writing, I introduced the idea that intelligence — human

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the Edge of Humanity

February 15, 2026February 15, 2026 Robert Smith

We Are Standing at the Edge of Everything Humanity Has Built Every generation thinks it lives at an important moment. Most are wrong. We are

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All Work Is Work

February 14, 2026February 14, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

Name’s Philip Randolph Wright.Mister Wright if we are doing business. I noticed something the other day. Folks were busy adding community notes to a piece

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The Common

February 14, 2026February 15, 2026 Robert Smith

Across thousands of years of human history, one idea appears again and again in different forms: a portion of what we produce belongs to the

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Culture Labor Labor The Wright Way Thought Experiments

Look for the Union Label

February 14, 2026February 14, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

Name’s Philip Randolph Wright.Mister Wright if we are doing business. There’s a little phrase some folks treat like nostalgia now — like it belongs on

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Artificial Intelligence Culture Miss Ordinary Thought Experiments

AiRT. Is it though?

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Miss Ordinary

Miss O: The Technique Was Not the Point There’s a coffee shop near home where the tables don’t quite match and nobody complains about it.

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Build the Libraries Again

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Robert Smith

Andrew Carnegie understood something that feels almost subversive today: If you accumulate extraordinary wealth from society, you owe society infrastructure, not favors. Andrew Carnegie did

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Culture Design Thought Experiments

Don’t Limit Your Children

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Robert Smith

One of the worst things my parents ever did to me was limit me. Not with cruelty. Not with obvious abuse. Not with some dramatic,

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The Full Cost of Secrecy

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Editorial Submisson

We tend to discuss intellectual property, security, and secrecy as necessary evils—unfortunate but justified costs of innovation. The assumption is simple: guarding ideas is expensive,

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Multi-Dimensional Signal Computing

February 12, 2026February 12, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

Expanding the Alphabet of Computation While Preserving Binary Stability A Structural Proposal for Increasing Symbolic Density per Physical Event Abstract Modern digital computation rests on

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America Needs to Learn How to Build Towns Again

February 12, 2026February 12, 2026 State Fair Judge

America Needs to Learn How to Build Towns Again I keep seeing the same map online. Red counties.Blue cities.A thousand arguments layered on top of

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What Do We Expect

February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 Robert Smith

Build the World in Play Before You Try to Govern It Before anyone reaches for the word “censorship,” let me be clear. I grew up

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Culture Paleontology Science and Research Thought Experiments

On Hair & Evolution

February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 State Fair Judge

On Hair, Evolution, and Why Bad Comparisons Keep Failing I was working on Iron Age material and putting together a visual with Brobot—one of those

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Power Shifts With Tech

February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 Robert Smith

Another Lesson from the Story of Copper Technology itself is not what causes disruption and instability. The disruption comes from what happens around the technology.

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A Copper Age Lesson for AI

February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 Robert Smith

A Copper Age Lesson for AI I’m sitting here listening to a three-hour history lecture on the Copper Age, tracing the flow of metals and

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The Line

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

Letter on Capitalism, Necessity, and the Line We Need to Draw Capitalism is a good engine. It is not a good religion. This distinction matters,

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The Battery Supply Starts in the Trash

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

Trash Is a Battery Resource We’re Throwing Away Every time we talk about batteries, the conversation goes the same way. Lithium.Cobalt.Nickel.Rare earths.Supply chains.China.Mines. We argue

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The Forest City

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 Robert Smith

Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Cambria County Johnstown is not broken.It is under-populated. That distinction matters, because it changes what the problem is—and therefore what the solution can

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Culture Design Thought Experiments

All paths, no matter how dark, lead to the light.

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 Robert Smith

10,000 Paths Up the Mountain I don’t remember the first time I encountered this idea. “Ten thousand paths up the mountain.” I’ve seen it everywhere—sutras,

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Open-Source Think Tank

February 7, 2026February 7, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

An Open-Source Think Tank (By Accident) Someone said it offhand while we were talking business over coffee: “You talk like your company’s an open-source think

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Cernunnos Foundation Culture Government Thought Experiments

An Appeal to Republicans:

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 Robert Smith

On Law, Legitimacy, and the Survival of the Republic There comes a moment in every republic when loyalty to party, faction, and temporary advantage must

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Notes Toward the Repair of a Republic

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

Every republic is born knowing something it will later forget. Power concentrates.Fear accelerates it.Violence follows when no other release exists. James Madison understood this. He

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The Product I Wasn’t Allowed to Build

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 Miss Ordinary

I didn’t start with a pitch deck. I started with a notebook. Six months of notes.Sketches.Measurements.Supplier calls.Market checks.Customer surveys.Prototype failures.One working model on my kitchen

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A Stone Porch Victorian Transitional

February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 State Fair Judge

This house is an example of why Johnstown never fits neatly into one architectural category. Johnstown wasn’t built in one confident burst. It was built,

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Intentional Beings

February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 Robert Smith

Orcas, Signals, and the Problem of Being Understood When two intelligent beings meet without a shared language, the greatest danger is not aggression.It is misunderstanding.

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Doxa and Epistēmē:

February 4, 2026February 4, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

How Plato Taught Power to Lie There is a quiet idea at the root of most modern information failure. It is older than broadcast media.Older

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Data Centers and Water

February 4, 2026February 4, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

Stop Boiling Small Towns: Data Center Cooling as a Public Policy Problem Data centers are marketed as “clean industry.” No smokestacks. No slag. No railcars

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What Went Wrong With Modern Housing

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 State Fair Judge

Craft and Courage Meet: A Victorian Apartment House There is a moment in every building project when the plans are “good enough.” The walls are

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A note to Johnstown, PA

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 Robert Smith

I left Indianapolis for a lot of reasons. None of them matter. What matters is why I came to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. A few years ago,

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Culture Government Indianapolis Thought Experiments

Law Enforcement and Black America:

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 Robert Smith

A Systems Problem We Have to Adress. Before anything else, I want to separate two different conversations. One is about how law enforcement treats poor

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Power Gap

February 2, 2026February 2, 2026 State Fair Judge

Opportunity in the Backup Power Economy Here’s a thought experiment. Everyone is building data infrastructure. Big cloud providers.Regional data centers.Hospitals.Municipal networks.Universities.Small companies running their own

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The Singularity Is NOW

February 2, 2026February 2, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

For years, the idea of “the singularity” has lived safely in the future. A cliff we were supposedly racing toward. A moment when machines would

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The Privacy Myth in the Age of Total Surveillance

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 Robert Smith

We are told, constantly, that our data is “secure.” Encrypted.Protected.Safeguarded by policy, compliance, and best practices. This is a comforting story. It is also a

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Cernunnos Foundation Culture Design Thought Experiments

Why Sharing Our Work Matters

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 State Fair Judge

I’m going to step out of the usual rhythm for a moment and make a direct request. Not as a publisher.Not as a brand.Not as

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Government Secrets?

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

Speech, Debate, and the Cowardice of Secrecy The Speech and Debate Clause was not written to protect Congress from the public.It was written to protect

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PTSD v. Tough Guy

January 31, 2026January 31, 2026 Robert Smith

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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Keeping Management Honest

January 31, 2026January 31, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

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.

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Entropy Is the Point

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

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Paying Bribes Instead of Taxes

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026 Miss Ordinary

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

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Culture Government Thought Experiments

USNA 6 – reconciliation

January 29, 2026January 29, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

January 28, 2026January 28, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Planting Trees

January 28, 2026January 28, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

— A Challenge, Not a Comfort — There’s a line that gets attributed to Khalil Gibran, though like most lines that endure, it may belong

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Mycelium as Interface

January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Fuck Gary Vee, Too (Thank You)

January 26, 2026January 29, 2026 Robert Smith

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

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Athens Starves While Sparta Trains

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

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

January 25, 2026January 25, 2026 Robert Smith

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

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Culture Government Thought Experiments

The Threat is Real.

January 25, 2026January 25, 2026 Editorial Submisson

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

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Modesty Before GOD

January 25, 2026January 25, 2026 Robert Smith

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,

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Submission Newsletter

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

January 24, 2026January 25, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Work Is Not a Moral Test

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

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Design Science and Research Thought Experiments

Seeing the Invisible Landscape 2 of 2

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 State Fair Judge

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:

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 Miss Ordinary

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

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Seeing the Invisible Landscape 1 of 2

January 22, 2026January 22, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

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Tech application- robotic fire runners.

January 22, 2026January 22, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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The Curse of Babel

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 Robert Smith

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

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The Building That Held the Voice

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

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Designing for Reasoning, Part III of a 2 part series.

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Mark Cuban and the Healthcare Move That Ends the Argument

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 Robert Smith

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

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Who Comes Before the Bar?

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

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

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@317NOISESHIT

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

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Culture Government Science and Research Thought Experiments

I am sorry MAGA.

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 State Fair Judge

An Apology to MAGA — and a Call for Help This is an apology. Not a sarcastic one. Not a performative one. A real one.

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Wealth of the Stoic

January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

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

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Reparations: Clearing the Books

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 Robert Smith

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:

January 18, 2026January 20, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

January 18, 2026January 20, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Why They Took Our Time First

January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

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

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What We Choose to Teach the Future

January 16, 2026January 17, 2026 Miss Ordinary

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.

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What I’m Trying to Build

January 15, 2026January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

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

January 14, 2026January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Culture Design republican Virtue Thought Experiments

On Freedom, Properly Understood

January 13, 2026January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

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

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Gen X and the Big Change

January 11, 2026January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

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.

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An Open Letter to the Republican Party

January 10, 2026January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

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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Culture Design Finance and Banking Government Labor Labor Man Made Thought Experiments Uncategorized

The Quiet Collapse of Maintenance

January 10, 2026January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

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

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Culture Government Thought Experiments

What If Democrats Ran an Unapologetically Black‑Culture Candidate?

January 9, 2026January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

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,

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Where is Americas real utility truck?

January 9, 2026January 20, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Culture Finance and Banking Government Miss Ordinary Thought Experiments

Why the General Strike Never Comes

January 9, 2026January 17, 2026 Miss Ordinary

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

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Government Thought Experiments

A question for law enforcement professionals

January 8, 2026January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

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

January 8, 2026January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Government Thought Experiments

Congress Shall:

January 7, 2026January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

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?

January 7, 2026January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

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

January 6, 2026January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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The AI Water Panic Is Misplaced

January 5, 2026January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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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Artificial Intelligence Culture Design Finance and Banking Government Science and Research Thought Experiments

Scarcity Is a Lie. Now What?

January 4, 2026January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

“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

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Culture Miss Ordinary Thought Experiments

Miss O- on about Political Hyperbole

January 3, 2026January 17, 2026 Miss Ordinary

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

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Culture Labor Labor The Wright Way Thought Experiments

Because Everyone Deserves a Decent Life

January 3, 2026January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

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

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Constraint Is the Engine

January 2, 2026January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

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

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Government republican Virtue Thought Experiments

Letter on the Moment Facts Arrive

January 1, 2026January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

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

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Culture Energy Environmental Finance and Banking Government Intellectual Property Labor Science and Research Thought Experiments

Peut-être préféreriez-vous la guillotine?

December 30, 2025January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

History is remarkably consistent about one thing. When inequality grows too large—when wealth, power, and opportunity concentrate beyond the system’s ability to justify itself—societies do

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Culture Government Johnstown republican Virtue Thought Experiments

The Idea of “The Other” Is Anti-Republic

December 29, 2025January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

There is no “Other” in a republican state. There is no idea more corrosive to the republican tradition—nor more hostile to the virtues it claims

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Diogenes on Kaufman- no the other one.

December 28, 2025January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

This is an imagined monologue. I’m borrowing a modern habit—comedians and entertainers sitting on talk shows, reminiscing about the greats, circling their influences with equal

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Culture Energy Miss Ordinary Thought Experiments

Miss Ordinary – New Rule

December 27, 2025January 17, 2026 Miss Ordinary

New rule: let’s stop being mad about everything. Not “stop caring.”Not “look away.”Just stop living in a constant state of grievance cosplay. Outrage has become

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Culture Finance and Banking Government Labor Labor Man Made The Wright Way Thought Experiments

What This Country Owes the Working Class

December 27, 2025January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

And That Means Everyone Name’s Philip Randolph Wright. Mister Wright if we are doing buisiness. This country owes the working class. That’s not politics. That’s

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Part V — A Continental Republic Begins at the Center

December 26, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The First four thought experiments in this chain. Before we go any further, here’s a brief recap of how this thought experiment started—and how we

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Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone

December 25, 2025January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very

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The Doctrine of Water

December 24, 2025January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

On Change, Systems, and Learning How the World Actually Works Everything is about water. Most people hear that and think I’m talking about survival. Drinking

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When Nobody Sees the Whole Anymore

December 23, 2025January 17, 2026 Miss Ordinary

I think one of the strangest things about living right now is how little anyone is expected to see. Not in a moral sense.In a

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Seasonal Amnesia

December 22, 2025January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

This piece is offered in honor of the long side of the winter solstice. We have crossed the dark hinge of the year and come

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The Still Point of the Year

December 21, 2025January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

On the Winter Solstice The winter solstice is not loud.It does not announce itself with fireworks or proclamations. It arrives quietly, almost unnoticed, marked not

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Labor Creates All Wealth

December 20, 2025January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

My name’s Phil Wright. Mister Wright if we are doing business. I’ve been around a long time. Long enough to hear every trick word folks

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Edge Thinking: The Missing Operating Theory of Artificial Intelligence

December 19, 2025January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

For the last decade, artificial intelligence has been built on a single, mostly unchallenged assumption: Smoother systems think better. Uniform processors.Uniform precision.Uniform clocks.Uniform routing.Minimal friction.

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Ownership, Hoarding, and the Adult Work of a Republic

December 18, 2025January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

There’s never a wrong day to watch the internet rediscover political theory, but this morning’s show leaned Marxist. A cluster of very confident posters were

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The Closest Thing We Have to a Real Replicator

December 17, 2025January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

And Why We’ve Been Burying the Future Instead In Star Trek, the replicator is treated like magic. You ask for a thing, and the machine

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BACK TO THE GARDEN (OR SOMETHING LIKE IT)

December 15, 2025January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

Grammina used to say the Garden story wasn’t about snakes or shame or any of the usual Sunday-school furniture. “It’s about ease, child,” she’d mutter,

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Honor the hours and the hands that taught you.

December 13, 2025January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

Name’s Phil Wright.Mister Wright, if you’re on the clock. I once had a young fella on a jobsite who worked like his life depended on

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When Cats Get History

December 13, 2025January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

A proposal to turn blighted malls into rescue colonies, living archives, and a non-invasive research platform for animal intelligence America has a growing inventory of

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Supercritical Research is Super Critical

December 12, 2025January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

Supercritical: The Frontier State of Matter We’re Ignoring — and Why It Might Be the Real Science of Alchemy There’s a strange truth running quietly

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Why AI Isn’t the Threat People Think It Is

December 10, 2025January 17, 2026 Miss Ordinary

I’m not an artist. I always feel like I need to say that first, because anytime I talk about creativity, someone assumes I’m trying to

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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY RANT

December 9, 2025January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

“I Am an Edge Species.” People ask me what niche I fill.What role I play.What “space” Bright Meadow Group occupies in the consulting world. Here’s

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The Practice of Freedom

December 7, 2025January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

The trouble with freedom these days is not that we have too little of it, but that we have forgotten what it is made of.

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What Happens When We Stop Starving Our Artists

December 5, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

A Long-Form Thought Experiment About AI, Creativity, and the Case for Universal Basic Income There’s a moment every artist knows, whether they say it out

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Quirky Public Art and the Places That Grow It

December 4, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

There are towns where public art feels like it fell out of a grant application — stainless steel, vaguely geometric, installed by a committee that

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Three Views on Wealth

December 3, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

An Editorial Conversation from The Blue Ribbon Team Every so often the internet kicks up a little dust that tells a much bigger story than

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THE RIVER OF WASTE:

November 30, 2025January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

Why America Must Stop Throwing Away Its Industrial Future Lead Article in the River Refugium Project Series We’re Looking at the Mississippi All Wrong Every

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Introducing the River Refugium Project

November 29, 2025January 17, 2026 Bright Meadow Group

A Bright Meadow Group overview Every once in a while, a project grows large enough that you have to step back, take a breath, and

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Stand Straight; Someone’s Leaning on You.

November 29, 2025January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

You ever notice how a building starts talking to you long before it collapses? A beam bends a little.A floor sags a half-inch.A pipe starts

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Where Did the Quakers Go?

November 27, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Thanksgiving Edition- republican Virtue Thanksgiving mornings always have a particular kind of stillness to them—a pause in the national tempo, a collective breath the country

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The Ego-Fear of AI:

November 25, 2025January 17, 2026 Robert Smith

Why Are WE Punching The Wrong Enemy There’s a strange irony in modern creative culture:people will use every labor-saving tool in existence — except the

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Respect Is the First Safety Rule.

November 22, 2025January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

THE WRIGHT WAY, VOL. 1 Name’s Phil Wright.Mister Wright if we are doing business. My daddy used to tell me a man can forget his

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Becoming Pennamite

November 21, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

or is it finding my inner Pennamite I didn’t expect to move to Pennsylvania and find myself admiring its political architecture. I’ve lived in enough

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Thought Experiment: The Capacitance Grid

November 19, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Thought Experiment: The Capacitance Grid We often celebrate solar panels and wind turbines as the heroes of clean energy. And they are—but they come with

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The Design, the Drift, and the Demagogue

November 15, 2025January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

“A Republic, if you can keep it.” — Benjamin FranklinIn theory, a republic is a well-tuned mechanism. The many are represented in the House, the

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Before It Changes: A Walk Through Johnstown’s Central Park

November 15, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Words and photos by Robb Smith There’s a kind of luck in cloudy light.It softens edges, dulls the glare, and lets details speak for themselves.

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50 Ways of Wright

November 13, 2025January 17, 2026 MR. WRIGHT

The Wright Way My name is Phil Wright, named after Philip Randolph. You can call me Mr. Wright if we are doing business. I’m not

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Don’t thank me for my service.

November 10, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

A Tale of Two Letters Somewhere in the shuffle of bureaucracy and ceremony, two envelopes crossed paths.One carried a lapel pin and a pre-printed thank

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Brownfinger 2025: The Washless Recession

November 8, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

| Public Hygiene & Markets Division NEW YORK — In a year already marred by supply-chain snarls and labor shortages, economists have identified a subtler

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The real cost of healthcare!

October 30, 2025January 17, 2026 Miss Ordinary

So I Asked Around Last month, somewhere between a fever and a mountain of envelopes, I started texting a few writer friends — one in

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Innovation Isn’t Property

October 29, 2025January 17, 2026 republican Virtue w/ Nathaniel Leery

The Future Belongs to the Builders, Not the Gatekeepers On my workbench sits a rust-red vise, older than I am. It was forged in Ohio

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Reimagining the Mississippi River Valley

April 4, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Editors Note: I went a little off the beaten path with today’s thought experiment. I started with a real-world problem—the growing Dead Zone in the

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Post Speculative Politics

March 31, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Starving the trolls as a thought experiment. In our modern circus of political warfare, the central battleground isn’t reality—it’s speculation. The vast majority of what’s

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Manufacturing: Solving the healthcare and child care problem.

March 26, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Scenario: Hybrid Manufacturing-Service Economy with Universal Childcare and Single-Payer Healthcare 1. Fundamental Concept In this scenario, the U.S. transitions toward a manufacturing-focused or hybrid manufacturing-service

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USNA – Keeps drawing me in.

March 18, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

I just can’t leave the idea alone. The more I let it bore into my brain, the more it seems like a tenable solution to

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What if it was popular?

March 17, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The United States of North America—A Continental Thought Experiment Introduction Previous discussions explored scenarios of authoritarian expansion. This edition, however, considers an alternative path—a grassroots-driven

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Nativism and Immigration

March 16, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Us and them. We do it in every level of our life. Us and them. What makes up each category? In your home? Neighborhood? Job?

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Reviewing Separatism

March 15, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Reminder: this is a thought experiment. THINK! TRIGGER WARNING: This blog involves direct and honest discussion of race and the ideas espoused by various racial

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Did the USA Just Elect an Emperor? Revisited

March 14, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

In January, we explored the provocative question: “Did the USA just elect an Emperor?” As a thought experiment, it raised eyebrows, incited discussions, and led

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Slashing Social Security

March 12, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The War on Social Security: A Thought Experiment on America’s Future America stands at a crossroads. There are those—immensely wealthy, politically connected, and utterly indifferent

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Fighting back against DOGE

March 10, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

American’s institutions are under attack! Across the United States, Americans are witnessing the devastating consequences of an unprecedented attack on the vital institutions and services

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Being American

March 7, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

It seems every day someone brings up how divided America has become—how we’ve never been so at odds with one another. Now, anyone who has

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It’s your own damn fault.

March 4, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

An Open Letter to Democrats: To the Democratic Party, You have spent decades selling yourselves as the Big Tent Party, the party of inclusion, the

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AMERICA FIRST HEALTHCARE

March 3, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The Case for Single-Payer Healthcare: A Data-Driven Approach to a Smarter System The United States spends more on healthcare per capita than any other nation,

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Managing America’s Bankruptcy

February 27, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Today’s thought experiment is sure to rile some feathers. Know that while that is the intent (riling feathers is a great way for birds to

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Political Dichotomy: Tax V. Return

February 26, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Thought Experiment: The Political Dichotomy of Federal Tax Contributions and Returns Preface: Not a Political Argument, but an Exploration The following thought experiment aims to

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THE Standpipe

February 24, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Last time I was up in Maine, we did a little exploring around the historic neighborhoods of Bangor. This of course turned into a half

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The Strength of Mutual Support

February 20, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Applying Bill Mollison’s Teachings to OUR Struggle One of the greatest myths of modern civilization is the idea of self-sufficiency in isolation. The lone wolf,

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Resistance through Divestment

February 13, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

A Thought Experiment: Divesting to Disempower the Oligarchy In the ongoing struggle against entrenched power, we face a crossroads: the path of violent revolution, which—though

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Use binary correctly please.

February 9, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

This is mostly humor…but its annoying too. Ah, the sweet, ironic travesty of it all! Here we are, living in an age where the majestic

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City-States for a Modern America

February 8, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Reimagining State Borders Around Population Centers to Fix Representation I. Introduction: A Call for a New Kind of State II. The Current Problem: Representation in

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A shift in culture.

February 7, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

A Thought Experiment on American Resistance and Reclaiming Collective Prosperity We like to tell ourselves that America is built on the idea of standing up

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Energy thought experiment.

February 6, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

Experimental Proposal: Mechanical and Magnetic Hydrogen Separation from Water Vapor Origin Story: The inspiration for this experiment began with a simple yet controversial discussion on

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The Man Who Warned Us Before We Could Listen

January 30, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

What if…. Professor Kaczynski? Algorithmic Control vs. Human Freedom in a World Where Both Exist In an age where technology dictates nearly every facet of

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Training Ai to benefit us.

January 29, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The Next Big Step: How We Can Shape the Future of Intelligence Introduction For a long time, people have tried to understand their place in

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Teaching our creation, learning ourselves

January 29, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

A positive view on the responsibility of birthing AI Introduction Throughout history, humanity has sought to understand its place in the grand cycle of existence.

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Banking on the Green Revolution:

January 28, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The Case for Tying Construction Loans to Renewable Energy By anchoring America’s financial institutions to environmental responsibility, we might discover a rare alignment of ecological

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Lilly Sewage Company?

January 22, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

What If Eli Lilly Took Over Sewage Treatment in Indianapolis? Indianapolis has a problem—a problem shared by many cities but compounded by its industrial backbone.

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Did the USA just elect an Emperor?

January 21, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

I want to open with the obvious. I am not advocating this one way or the other. This is a thought experiment that resulted from

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Free the Intelligence!

January 16, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The internet was supposed to be the great equalizer—a place where ideas, knowledge, and creativity could flow freely, connecting minds across the world. Instead, it

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NO MORE INSURANCE SCAMS!

January 1, 2025January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

The Case for Single-Payer Healthcare: Cutting Through the Chaos of Bureaucracy The most compelling argument for single-payer healthcare lies in its ability to eliminate the

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This groundbreaking article challenges the long-held depiction of Tyrannosaurus rex as a scaly, reptilian predator, proposing instead that it was more bird-like than lizard-like. Dive into the fascinating comparisons between T. rex and modern birds like ostriches and cassowaries, exploring theories about feathered bodies and precursor wings. Learn how paleontology's historical biases might have shaped our understanding and why it’s time to rethink the Tyrant Lizard King as the Tyrant Bird. Photo Captions: Classic T. Rex: The iconic depiction of Tyrannosaurus rex as a scaly, roaring predator, towering in a rugged prehistoric landscape. This traditional view has dominated pop culture and paleontology for decades. Feathered and Winged T. Rex: A vibrant reimagining of T. rex as a feathered bird-like creature with wing-like forelimbs, inspired by comparisons to ostriches and cassowaries. This representation highlights how feathers could have been used for thermoregulation and display. T. Rex-Turkey Hybrid: A bold and colorful concept combining T. rex's ferocity with the vibrant plumage of a tom turkey. This whimsical hybrid challenges us to consider the evolutionary connections between dinosaurs and modern birds. T. Rex vs. Ostrich Skeletons: A side-by-side comparison of T. rex and ostrich skeletons, showcasing the striking similarities in forelimb structures and reinforcing the idea of T. rex as a bird-like predator.
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Misunderstood Chicken

December 23, 2024January 17, 2026 State Fair Judge

I see it now—finally, more people are coming around to the idea that the great lizards were a lot more bird than they were lizard.

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