Stephen Donahue
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Retract the seven published columns into drafts/ and promote the 24 per-date entries split out of Notes/random.md. Bodies are verbatim; titles, subjects and slugs are new. Make publication a matter of location. Notes/Notes.11tydata.js gives anything under Notes/ permalink: false unless tagged `column`; drafts/drafts.11tydata.js renders drafts at their real permalink under `yarn dev` and excludes them from collections entirely in a build, so no template can surface one. Publishing is now `git mv drafts/<file> columns/`, and moving it back retracts it. Untagged notes were previously rendered into _site/ and deployed — including Notes/random.md, which was live at /Notes/random/.
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title: Push the Warzone Out
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date: 2026-06-16
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layout: column.njk
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tags: [column, society]
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permalink: /columns/2026/push-the-warzone-out/
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Momentum of daily practice.
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It's frightening to imagine a world where our basic human wants and desires are satisfied by drugs, some highly calibrated stimulation, magnetically induced neural effects, rather than the good ol' fashioned methods. Run a marathon. Climb a mountain or read a book, find religion.
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How long would we last? If the urge to fuck and reproduce could be mollified by a pill or programming...
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Maybe we could prescribe it for hospice care.
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We design an interface for our users, but maybe it should be the other way around -- let the people / AI / etc. tell us what they need and how, and they can build their own clients on demand with LLM agents and what have you.
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It's not that I'm stupider, it's that I'm feeling less secure.
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Don't we want to push the warzone out?
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Why keep it tucked within our walls?
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If you want peace, do you invite war to your walls.
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How much of the vacuum of space is just due to its hostility to existience?
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We moved our media from denser and denser physical disks to a datacenter elsewhere. What's next? Where are the bottlenecks?
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Capacity constraints? Datacenter can scale but only so far as the physical infrastructure exists.
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Decentralized infra. The volley between DC and client. Let the clients do more (when there are more clients than servers).
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Fuck it - be willing to fail.
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