Privacy Issues: When Convenience Quietly Becomes Surveillance

Privacy Issues: When Convenience Quietly Becomes Surveillance

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org People don’t worry about privacy because they’re hiding something. They worry about it because they can feel when the walls are moving closer. AI didn’t invent that feeling.It accelerated it. Every system that promises ease, speed, and personalization requires the same fuel: data.And not just…

You can’t Loose What You Never Had…Thanks

You can’t Loose What You Never Had…Thanks

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Thank You for not buying the Faust Baseline. Not one copy sold, you took it when it was free, but you refuse to support us, so thank you. We appriciate you telling us where we stand in the community we just wanted to help our…

The Weakness of Complexity…Why Now?

The Weakness of Complexity…Why Now?

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org People are taught to believe that size equals strength. Big systems.Big institutions.Big authority. But size doesn’t create resilience.Simplicity does. The larger a system becomes, the more exposed it is.The more moving parts it adds, the more cracks it has to seal.And the harder it works…

The Smallest Pressure Valve Most People Were Never Taught

The Smallest Pressure Valve Most People Were Never Taught

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Most stress doesn’t come from big events. It comes from small moments that go unanswered. A comment at work.A dismissive remark.A power play wrapped in a joke.A line meant to put you in your place. You feel it land.You say nothing.You move on. Except you…

It Isn’t Hopeless. They Just Never Showed You the Tools.

It Isn’t Hopeless. They Just Never Showed You the Tools.

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Most people sense it now. Something is off.The cost of living.The tone of institutions.The feeling that no matter what you do, the machine keeps rolling. What follows is the lie that causes the most damage: “There’s nothing you can do without violence.” That’s false. What’s…

Algorithmic Bias: Why “The Computer Decided” Is Not an Answer

Algorithmic Bias: Why “The Computer Decided” Is Not an Answer

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org For a long time, people believed computers would be fair by default. No moods.No grudges.No favorites. Just math. That belief made sense—until math started making decisions about people. Hiring.Loans.Insurance.Parole.Policing. Now, when something goes wrong, the explanation often sounds like this: “The system flagged it.”“The model…

Repair Doesn’t Start with Motivation, It Starts with Predictability.

Repair Doesn’t Start with Motivation, It Starts with Predictability.

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org People don’t need excitement right now.They’ve had plenty of that. They need reliability. Not slogans.Not breaking news.Not another sharp turn every twenty minutes. They need to know what tomorrow is likely to look like—at least in their own small corner of the world. When everything…

How to Stabilize Social Withdrawal

How to Stabilize Social Withdrawal

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org A lot of people are retreating right now. Not in dramatic ways.No announcements. No speeches.Just fewer phone calls. Fewer plans. Less eye contact. Less conversation. More silence. More staying home. More “I’m fine” that doesn’t sound fine. That isn’t laziness. It’s a nervous system trying…

Why Restraint Still Has Teeth, Wisely

Why Restraint Still Has Teeth, Wisely

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org There’s a feeling moving through the country right now that didn’t come from ideology. It came from accumulation. What you’re seeing—what you heard in those interviews—isn’t radical speech. It isn’t fringe anger. It’s something quieter and more serious: people who did the math, waited their…

The Truth We Accept Today Decides Tomorrow

The Truth We Accept Today Decides Tomorrow

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org What I heard in interviews of on the street voices, wasn’t radicalism.It wasn’t theatrics.And it wasn’t the usual ideological noise. It was something more sobering. These were educated people—but not insulated ones.Informed, but not credential-drunk.People with jobs, families, responsibilities, and a working understanding of how…