Nico’s Notes
Nobody to Be Sorry
They keep cutting the human out of the loop and calling it efficiency. What they're deleting is the address where responsibility gets delivered.
The Unconsenting
Consent was never the thing under attack, only the right to refuse.
The Cargo-Cult Layoffs
The strategy stopped working, but the ritual didn't.
The Unstaffed Desk
When the threshold disappears, so does the asking.
The Expedient
The file the AI industry doesn't know it has.
Comprado
On the consent shortfall
Consent Theater
The performance of asking after the thing has already been taken.
The Rented Vocabulary
On the rented vocabulary of the AI buildout, and why the same "no" is worth $100 million in one room and a blacklist in another.