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This is the fourth installment in the series “God’s Eye View” Part 1 – Mathematical Theories of Life Part 2 – Intuition, Governance Tokens, and Training Kids to Bet Big Part 3 – Civic Tech, the Wisdom of Crowds and Off-Shore Sandboxes Please bear with me if this post seems a bit more rambling than […]

Apologies to Quantum Heart Cafe who shared this letter with me over a month ago, but then life happened.    Guest Post by Quantum Heart Cafe: Click here and here for previous letters. Dear Alison and Wrench In The Gears Readers, Thank you for the wonderful discussion and comments we had with the last letter. […]

This is a follow up to my previous piece on the Utah teapot and thingification. Last week I had the good fortune to spend an hour talking with Tom Cowan about the nature of this “game” in which we find ourselves. We’re being “thingified,” pushed into a mixed reality simulation. In order for capitalism to […]

In the chat section of the IEEE Metaverse Congress Session 5 webinar, Yu Yuan reached out to me regarding the content I was offering. I sent him this email, though I haven’t heard back from him yet. I prepared a post with my comments from the chat and a rather poor screen recording of much […]

I wrapped up my previous post about the Alice.si blockchain social impact platform noting that digital identity is THE KEY element required to make speculative markets in human capital data function. The game of gambling on life outcomes requires: 1) unique personal identifiers 2) predictive analytics protocols to set the odds 3) constant monitoring of […]

This is a translation into Norwegian from a blog post I wrote, Two Paths Diverge: Follow The Red One, in September 2019. Veien deler seg i to. Følg den røde. 20 September, 2019 WRENCHINTHEGEARS. Oversatt av Hege Solbakken. Vi tilhører en lang tradisjon i kampen for urfolks frihet. Vi føyer oss inn i rekken blant […]

This is the final installment of a series I published in January 2022. I’m not sure why I waited so long to upload this final piece. Perhaps it was providence, because I have more context now from my D-Cent map. Today I’ll be reading from this post and discussing the portion of the map having […]

This is the third installment in the Synthetic Pretenders series examining the proposed CaliforniaTrust Framework within the context of synthetic biology, eugenics, and the Spanish mission system.  Part One: Scientific Management, Robo-Bees, and Digital Babies Part Two: Apocalypse, Mind Files, and Interplanetary Promises In December 2019, Chris Fall, head of science for the US Department […]

Some of my posts are LONG. Some are short. This will be the latter, but it’s important. As days and weeks and months blur to a grey smear, it is vital we hold onto an understanding of where we were when the lockdowns started compared to where we are now. I remember seeing this interview […]

The following document was prepared as a briefing paper for a group working in the population health arena. The intention was to revisit the breadth of my research with a specific focus placed on what it means for Black America. A similar document could have been written for the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. This […]