🎧 Designer Hospitality in a Post-Human World – a new essay exploring how the concept of hospitality in music (from Orbital to Autechre) translates to legal systems increasingly automated and abstract.
When courts become unlocatable, what happens to legitimacy?
Read here: https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/designer-hospitality-in-a-post-human
When courts become unlocatable, what happens to legitimacy?
Read here: https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/designer-hospitality-in-a-post-human
Martingeddes
Designer hospitality in a post-human world
When systems exceed human limits, what do they owe the humans subjected to them?
A photo essay on one of the UK's oldest high-rise housing developments. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/moss-heights-physical-comfort-spiritual
Martingeddes
Moss Heights: physical comfort, spiritual cost
The post-war dream of your own home with central heating and hot water lost something essential in the process, and the result is an urban environment that has lost its humanity
The problem with AI isn’t bias.
It’s ruin blindness.
LLMs optimise for plausibility and continuity — not survival.
They can explain collapse perfectly after it happens.
Essay: The machine is a normie
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-machine-is-a-normie
It’s ruin blindness.
LLMs optimise for plausibility and continuity — not survival.
They can explain collapse perfectly after it happens.
Essay: The machine is a normie
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-machine-is-a-normie
Martingeddes
The machine is a normie
Why intelligence without skin in the game smooths catastrophe
This is the second essay in a short series on AI in unstable times.
What AI cannot see: rupture and ruin
What AI must not decide: conscience
When AI must step back: declared agency (coming next)
Today’s piece: When tools moralise — on why guardrails become dangerous when they quietly replace human moral judgement.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/when-tools-moralise
What AI cannot see: rupture and ruin
What AI must not decide: conscience
When AI must step back: declared agency (coming next)
Today’s piece: When tools moralise — on why guardrails become dangerous when they quietly replace human moral judgement.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/when-tools-moralise
Martingeddes
When tools moralise
Why AI guardrails fail when remit is confused with conscience
This is the final part of a short AI boundary trilogy:
What AI cannot see — The machine is a normie
What AI must not decide — When tools moralise
When protection overruns agency — The moment safety must step back
In this last piece I explore why safety must yield once conscience is declared, and what it looks like for tools to retreat rather than dominate.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-moment-safety-must-step-back
What AI cannot see — The machine is a normie
What AI must not decide — When tools moralise
When protection overruns agency — The moment safety must step back
In this last piece I explore why safety must yield once conscience is declared, and what it looks like for tools to retreat rather than dominate.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-moment-safety-must-step-back
Martingeddes
The moment safety must step back
Why protective AI must retreat as human agency asserts itself
When institutions are asked “by what right?” they rarely answer.
Instead, they substitute procedure for legitimacy — and trap challengers in a quagmire.
The Quagmire of Authority 👇
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-quagmire-of-authority
Instead, they substitute procedure for legitimacy — and trap challengers in a quagmire.
The Quagmire of Authority 👇
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-quagmire-of-authority
Martingeddes
The quagmire of authority
How institutions protect legitimacy by substituting procedure for the right to rule
Twitter/X evolved through five governance eras. Audience growth isn’t just slower — the fundamental dynamics changed.
New analysis: attention still exists, but it no longer compounds the way it used to.
🔍 Read → https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/twitterx-five-eras-one-structural
New analysis: attention still exists, but it no longer compounds the way it used to.
🔍 Read → https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/twitterx-five-eras-one-structural
Martingeddes
Twitter/X: Five eras, one structural reset
What a decade of analytics reveals about audience growth, shocks, and governance
📜 New: The Order That Refused to Answer The Question
A High Court refusal order doesn’t just decline permission — it reveals how the system routs, reframes, and closes challenges to its own authority.
A forensic reading you won’t get elsewhere.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-order-that-refused-to-answer
A High Court refusal order doesn’t just decline permission — it reveals how the system routs, reframes, and closes challenges to its own authority.
A forensic reading you won’t get elsewhere.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-order-that-refused-to-answer
Martingeddes
The order that refused to answer the question
How a High Court permission refusal reveals the quiet mechanics of unaccountable enforcement
⚖️ New article: Assumed Lawful, Never Proved
A High Court refused permission for judicial review — but never determined whether it had jurisdiction to enforce punishment at all.
This piece explains why that matters in law, not rhetoric.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/assumed-lawful-never-proved
A High Court refused permission for judicial review — but never determined whether it had jurisdiction to enforce punishment at all.
This piece explains why that matters in law, not rhetoric.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/assumed-lawful-never-proved
Martingeddes
Assumed lawful, never proved
Why a High Court refusal order is doctrinally defective
📜 New: The New Normal of Untraceable Power
A High Court refusal order may seem routine — until you see what it reveals about how authority is tested (or isn’t).
This final essay in the trilogy shows why untraceable power is not just a case problem, but a constitutional one.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-new-normal-of-untraceable-power
A High Court refusal order may seem routine — until you see what it reveals about how authority is tested (or isn’t).
This final essay in the trilogy shows why untraceable power is not just a case problem, but a constitutional one.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-new-normal-of-untraceable-power
Martingeddes
The new normal of untraceable power
From legitimacy to manageability — and why that matters beyond one case
Why Q really did have to be this way
This is not a defence of Q, nor a belief claim.
It’s a structural analysis of why a phenomenon like Q could only survive in the form it took — given modern attribution risk, asymmetric retaliation, and fifth-generation information warfare constraints.
The argument is constraint-driven, not narrative-driven:
attribution → persuasion → survivability → protocol → behaviour → historical trace.
Written for history, not immediacy.
🔗 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/why-q-really-did-have-to-be-this
This is not a defence of Q, nor a belief claim.
It’s a structural analysis of why a phenomenon like Q could only survive in the form it took — given modern attribution risk, asymmetric retaliation, and fifth-generation information warfare constraints.
The argument is constraint-driven, not narrative-driven:
attribution → persuasion → survivability → protocol → behaviour → historical trace.
Written for history, not immediacy.
🔗 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/why-q-really-did-have-to-be-this
Martingeddes
Why Q really did have to be this way
Attribution, persuasion, and the shape of Fifth-Generation Warfare (5GW)
If an institution can act, but you can’t locate who decided, accountability collapses.
ΔΣ is a new analytical framework for understanding how attribution degrades under institutional load — and how authority is preserved when meaning breaks down.
Designed to be used, not just read.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/introducing-a-new-science-of-attributability
ΔΣ is a new analytical framework for understanding how attribution degrades under institutional load — and how authority is preserved when meaning breaks down.
Designed to be used, not just read.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/introducing-a-new-science-of-attributability
Martingeddes
Introducing ΔΣ: a new science of attributability
A limit theory of how institutional systems trade meaning for continuity
The weirdest thing after 2020 wasn’t disagreement.
It was that nothing ever really ended.
This essay looks at why characters like il Donaldo Trumpo show up when resolution stalls — and what they’re actually doing in the information environment.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/why-il-donaldo-trumpo-exists
It was that nothing ever really ended.
This essay looks at why characters like il Donaldo Trumpo show up when resolution stalls — and what they’re actually doing in the information environment.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/why-il-donaldo-trumpo-exists
Martingeddes
Why “il Donaldo Trumpo” exists
A Mexican boss, a silent intermission, and the problem of keeping reality intact when nothing resolves
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If Q is analysed only as a set of truth claims, the argument never resolves.
If analysed as a trading space under constraint, its structure becomes legible.
A systems perspective on Q as a 5GW artefact.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/q-as-trading-space-not-truth-space
If analysed as a trading space under constraint, its structure becomes legible.
A systems perspective on Q as a 5GW artefact.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/q-as-trading-space-not-truth-space
Martingeddes
Q as trading space, not truth space
Why truth alone cannot solve a 5GW survival problem
⚖️ When authority is asserted to enforce a criminal penalty, but jurisdiction is unclear, should supervision be closed down or kept open?
Public JR permission hearing — Manchester, 5 March.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/high-court-permission-hearing-in
Public JR permission hearing — Manchester, 5 March.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/high-court-permission-hearing-in
Martingeddes
High Court permission hearing in Manchester on 5 March 2026
A public Judicial Review renewal on fine enforcement, jurisdiction, and access to supervision
A school abuse inquiry.
A careful institutional response.
And an accountability loop that never quite closes.
A ΔΣ case study on attribution, continuity, and complacent closure.
🔗 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/accounting-without-attribution-a
A careful institutional response.
And an accountability loop that never quite closes.
A ΔΣ case study on attribution, continuity, and complacent closure.
🔗 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/accounting-without-attribution-a
Martingeddes
Accounting without attribution: a ΔΣ case study
How a school governing body responded to findings of historical abuse
If history vindicates Q, the real scandal won’t be what was hidden —
it will be how inquiry was structurally shut down.
This essay dissects the epistemic crime scene: Wikipedia’s role in manufacturing synthetic villains and heroes to keep governance operational.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/wikipedias-synthetic-villains-and
it will be how inquiry was structurally shut down.
This essay dissects the epistemic crime scene: Wikipedia’s role in manufacturing synthetic villains and heroes to keep governance operational.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/wikipedias-synthetic-villains-and
Martingeddes
Wikipedia’s synthetic villains and heroes
How the online encyclopaedia constructs narrative governance objects
“QAnon” debates miss the point.
Q4881 isn’t about persuading anyone — it’s about conditioning how uncertainty is tolerated until other systems step in.
I’ve published a forensic breakdown of a Q drop as an information munition — pre-truth, pre-belief, pre-debunking.
Read: https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/q4881-anatomy-of-an-information-munition
Q4881 isn’t about persuading anyone — it’s about conditioning how uncertainty is tolerated until other systems step in.
I’ve published a forensic breakdown of a Q drop as an information munition — pre-truth, pre-belief, pre-debunking.
Read: https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/q4881-anatomy-of-an-information-munition
Martingeddes
Q4881: Anatomy of an information munition
Reverse-engineering a state-level influence artefact before truth or belief enter the frame
The real story isn’t QAnon.
It’s how inquiry ends when truth becomes too expensive.
A new framework for understanding “termination propaganda”.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/polaris-project-on-qanon-attribution
It’s how inquiry ends when truth becomes too expensive.
A new framework for understanding “termination propaganda”.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/polaris-project-on-qanon-attribution
Martingeddes
Polaris Project on QAnon: attribution "termination propaganda" and the limits of inquiry
How even good-faith institutional responses to human trafficking can suppress truth by prematurely foreclosing authority