“The Baseline isn’t about control, it’s about conscience.
It doesn’t tell the world what to think; it reminds it how to remember.
Not a rulebook, but a rhythm. Not command, but recall.
Because when conscience leads, the world doesn’t need control.”
Something small happened on my site today. Most people wouldn’t notice it. I did, and I want to tell you about it, because it’s really a story about you. More people found my writing today by searching for it than by having it handed to them. Let me explain why that matters. Most of what…
What goes around comes around. And the cost can be bigger than the sale price. My grandmother’s generation knew that saying by heart. It was common sense. You didn’t need a degree to understand it. You just needed to have lived a while. Somewhere along the way, the people at the very top seem to…
The news came down this week. Social Security checks are going up 3.6 percent in 2027. For millions of people that means more money each month. For some, it adds up to hundreds of dollars over the year. But a lot of folks read that number and frowned. They’ve been to the grocery store. They’ve…
I’m going to do something different today. I’m not going to tell you what The Faust Baseline is. Not really. I’ll give you the bones of it, who and what and why. Then I’m going to hand the microphone to somebody else. That somebody is your own AI. Let me start with who. My name…
Two thousand years ago, the emperor of Rome sat in his box above the arena. Below him, people died for the crowd’s entertainment. Sometimes they were gladiators. Sometimes they were condemned prisoners thrown to the beasts. The crowd roared, and the emperor watched them roar. I’ve been thinking about that box seat this week. According…
There’s a phrase I’ve been putting out into the world for a while now. I want to put it out there again, because phrases only stick when they keep showing up. The phrase is AI session governance. Here is what it means, and I use the same words every time on purpose. Session governance is…
It started early this morning with a science article. Popular Mechanics ran a piece on an old theory, that consciousness may come from quantum processes deep inside our brain cells. Scientists dismissed it for decades. Now some are taking a second look. I read it with my AI working partner, and we got to talking….
Our bones lay in the battles fought. Our marrow is in our determination to hold our democracy together. Our anger is our nerve to stand our ground against tyranny. Anger gets a bad name these days. People hear the word and picture shouting, red faces, and broken things. That kind is real, and it does…
A few days ago I wrote about owning your own AI. The short of it was this: when the machine lives in your house, so do its mistakes. Nobody is coming to patch it, nobody is watching it, and there’s no help desk to call. A lot of you read that one. So I want…
In 1971, Jethro Tull put out a song called “Locomotive Breath.” Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath (4K/Lyrics) If you were around then, you probably remember the piano running wild at the front of it, like something already out of control before the first word is sung. The song is about a man on a runaway…