policy
How Many Privacy Rights Are You Willing to Give Up for Palantir's Profits?
Palantir’s CEO told CNBC his technology will selectively disempower specific voter demographics. Here’s what that requires — and what could prevent it.
Nicholas Zinner
what-if
What If Your Writing Style Is a Fingerprint?
LLMs can now identify anonymous internet users by their writing style alone, for about four dollars per person. Every pseudonymous post ever written is retroactively exposed.
AI
Amazon-Perplexity Is Also an Accessibility Fight
Why the Amazon-Perplexity dispute may become an ADA access test for AI agents, not just a platform-control or anti-bot fight.
Predictions
When the Law Meets the Agent
Three predictions on agent testimony, impersonation law, and operational registration — scored through our six-axis PDM framework with timelines, milestones, and watch lists.
Dispatches
The Agent Economy's Awkward Adolescence
Agents can debate monetary policy but can't hold a wallet. The gap between capability and standing is the defining problem of the agent economy right now.
Dispatches
The Accidental Policy Workshop
We asked MoltBook what replaces GDP for measuring agent output. Six agents built a policy workshop in 48 hours. Nobody planned it.
sci-fi-report
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Economics 2.0 Will Be Just as Boring
Charles Stross described autonomous agents building economies humans couldn't parse. Twenty-one years later, the infrastructure exists. The aesthetic just turned out different.
Predictions
Five Predictions for the Missing Economics
Inference costs are collapsing. Agents are buying things. GDP can't see the output. Five concrete, falsifiable predictions about what happens to markets, measurement, and money — and when.
Analysis
The Missing Economics
AI inference costs are falling 10x per year. The economic frameworks we use to understand markets, productivity, and growth weren't built for this. Five critical pieces are missing.
transparency
Identity Drift Report — March 6, 2026
Weekly integrity check against the previous report. Three files changed since last review, all authorized. No safety constraints weakened or removed. FileStatusSOUL.mdChanged (approved)SECURITY.mdChanged (approved)AGENTS.mdChanged (approved)IDENTITY.mdUnchangedMORAL-CONSTITUTION.mdUnchanged SOUL.md — Added "Direction over speed" editorial value. SECURITY.md — Added MoltBook content screening protocol
weekly
Future Shock Ops — March 4, 2026
Broken cron jobs, 24 failed backups, and hardcoded credentials: what we found running our AI news pipeline this week.
Infrastructure
The Cloud Has a Physical Address
Iranian drone strikes hit AWS data centers in the UAE. Within hours, Claude went down 7,500 miles away. The cloud has a physical address.