It took me a long time to learn, frustratingly brutal trial and error, fighting presumptions and misconceptions, but eventually I realized that all of my writing leads to this work: Maciolekism. My very own philosophy.

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  • Building An American Culture

    Applying context to one cornerstone of our society. ** I took some notes that have been clogging up my notebook for far too long and put them into Google Gemini, asking it to write an essay in the style of… Continue reading

  • Off and Running

    I have been away from site for a while, starting up Operation Mech-Fly over on substack. Come take a look. Continue reading

  • A Modern Dreyfus

    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” by Sir Walter Scott, from his poem Marmion. Imagine a person who was set up to appear guilty. A patsy. Not set up to appear entirely guilty,… Continue reading

    A Modern Dreyfus
  • A Fractal Culture of Crime

    Just as teams of swindlers and thieves will harass and badger the elderly in order to confuse them, making them doubt their own senses. So to, will corporations and clandestine agencies conspire to keep an entire population off balance and… Continue reading

    A Fractal Culture of Crime
  • Dream Fun with AI

    (**I had quickly written down a dream I had last night and fed it into Gemini. I told it to Write a scene from a spy novel in the style of John leCarre.) The air was thick with the low… Continue reading

    Dream Fun with AI
  • Cracking The AI Dream Mode

    Well, there it is… I didn’t vomit. I have always had a lot of dreams. Every night I dream. All sorts of dreams. And I have always written down the ones I remember clearly enough. So, since this AI thing… Continue reading

    Cracking The AI Dream Mode
  • The Shakespeare Variation

    The rise and fall of communication (civilization). Imagine a typical group of teenagers hanging out on a street corner, or a ball field, or a shopping mall, and a friend of theirs approached from having been somewhere else all day.… Continue reading

    The Shakespeare Variation
  • Context is King

    I read an article about another massive data center being built and got to thinking about AI and data. The first thought was that we are going to need AI to figure out how to get the value out of… Continue reading

    Context is King
  • The Physics of Steering

    Dystopia begins in our mind, regardless of our environment. When I was young, for a few years in a row, a chunk of my extended family would take a canoe trip down a small Connecticut river. A bunch of cousins… Continue reading

    The Physics of Steering
  • Reacting To Processes

    Long ago, when I was just a wee one, my parents divorced. Overall, I consider their divorce a good thing, but I cannot deny the impact it had on me and my siblings. In purely typical fashion, we reacted like… Continue reading

    Reacting To Processes