“Sumawka Caller”

There is a difference between a rule and a gate. A rule tells you what should happen. A gate determines what can happen. One is written on paper. The other is built into the structure. You can read a rule and acknowledge it and walk right past it. You cannot walk past a gate. The…

With gratitude to Crosby, Stills, Young & Nash We have been here before. Not in the details. Not in the technology. Not in the particular shape of the threat. But in the feeling — the deep American feeling that something fundamental is slipping and the people positioned to hold it are letting it go. That…

Ok so we have a preset build for the advancement of AI governance that gives us a head start on future AI advancements. When and what would be the platform advancement to fully be in sync with the Faust baseline? Good question. Let me map it honestly against what the Baseline requires and what does…

Gary Marcus is one of the sharpest critics of artificial intelligence working today. He is not a fearmonger. He is not a Luddite. He is a cognitive scientist who has spent decades studying how minds work — human and machine — and he is not impressed with what the machines are doing to us. This…

The Pew Research Center just released numbers that deserve to be read slowly. Forty-nine percent of Americans are now using AI chatbots in their daily lives. That is nearly half the country. A year ago it was roughly one in three. The adoption curve is steep and it is not slowing down. Here is what…

Something is happening in the numbers and it is worth naming. In Texas, more than 2.2 million people voted in the Democratic midterm primary. That is the highest turnout for a Texas Democratic midterm primary since 1970. Not a surge in a presidential year. A midterm. The kind of election where people historically stay home….

There is a word getting a lot of attention in AI policy circles right now. Accountability. Lawmakers want it. Researchers are building frameworks around it. Publications are running opinion pieces explaining why it matters and what it would take to get there. The Faust Baseline has been operating under it for fourteen months. Accountability in…

TechRadar ran a piece this week telling users how to manage their own AI chat sessions before they hit the token wall. The advice was practical and accurate. It was also the wrong person doing the job. The article explained something most people using AI tools don’t know. Every chat session has a limit. Not…

That distinction sits at the center of a debate that went mainstream this week. A Vox piece by Eric Levitz asked the question that Silicon Valley has been quietly asking for years: what if ChatGPT is conscious? Geoffrey Hinton thinks today’s large language models already are. Dario Amodei says he is open to the idea…

Here Is What That Means and Where I Am On the morning of June 18, 2026, my Substack account was suspended. No warning. No prior notice. An automated spam and phishing flag fired after sixteen months of consistent, original, long-form publishing. Not one policy violation. Not one complaint I know of. The account went dark…