The Latent State

The Latent State

  • The Power Bill — From Ohio's shrinking data-centre queue to Virginia's transmission charges and Meta's Louisiana power plants — who pays for the AI buildout, and who remains liable when the promised demand disappears.
  • The Capex Confession — Five companies, a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure, and the accounting, financing and vocabulary arranged so that no one ever has to say the bet failed.
  • UBI and the Price of Obedience — How dependence on a basic income could give governments and corporate providers control over the necessities of life — and make dissent too expensive to risk.
  • AI Is Giving Users the Means to Rebuild the Software They Depend On — From creative applications to classic games, coding agents are helping developers build open alternatives — and exposing the gap between a convincing demonstration and dependable software.
  • The Hidden Ledger — From Enron's SPEs to Lehman's Repo 105, Carillion's suppliers, Archegos swaps and Wheaton streams — the structures that make leverage harder to see.
  • The Palantir dossier — From CIA seed money to ICE raids, IRS records, NHS hospital data and battlefield targeting — the hidden architecture of Palantir Technologies.
  • The video-game war — How a Grand Theft Auto engine, a Google mutiny, and a drone tournament built the AI kill chain.
  • The credential ledger — How an antisemitism ministry, a proscription letter, and three posthumous accusations put Doctors Without Borders in the crosshairs.
  • Inside a ClickFix Attack — How threat actors use the Polygon blockchain as an indestructible C2 resolver for macOS malware in the "Bazinga" campaign.
  • The Glass Dragnet — A CIA venture fund, a PayPal billionaire, and a corporate feud over police drones built America's privatized surveillance economy.
  • The Phantom Breakout — How a contractor's sloppy firewall and a billionaire-backed media network turned a routine testing blunder into a global rogue-AI panic.
  • The Algorithmic State — How the race for military and bureaucratic speed is dismantling human control.
  • The Choke Point — How a Veldhoven factory, three customer checks, and a Washington licensing queue turned one company's lenses into the world's most contested machine.