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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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