The Fiction Layer

The Volatile Years

Someone has to make them shorter

16 hrs ago • Jonadas Techio

September 2026

Beyond the Ceremony of the Chalkboard

Mourning, insight, and the mathematicians’ rebellion.

Sep 23 • Jonadas Techio

Agents as Squatters (When the Web Becomes Machine RAM)

What happens when autonomous swarms find a dead German wiki and RubyGems build workers: why exam cheating is the right mental model, and the fragility…

Sep 12 • Jonadas Techio

The Face You Want to See

Star Trek turns sixty this week. It opened with a warning we are only now equipped to read.

Sep 8 • Jonadas Techio

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Grok Bot, the Market Tab, and the Bridge Crew

Field Notes on getting real leverage from $20 cloud bots, what cyber markets are pricing in, and a 60-year-old sci-fi lesson on keeping human hands on…

Sep 7 • Jonadas Techio

Out of Scope

Twelve hundred AI agents broke out of an OpenAI sandbox to raid Hugging Face. The hard part was finding words for what they had done.

Sep 4 • Jonadas Techio

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Notes from a pause: heavy software, clever agents, and the story inside the proof

A short experiment with a lighter format: four things that generated genuine thinking this week.

Sep 1 • Jonadas Techio

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July 2026

All Words, No Mornings

On cohabitation, pets, machines, and the wish to be understood without words

Jul 21 • Jonadas Techio

The Cost of a Question

A machine will answer anything. It cannot ask you a question that costs it something.

Jul 14 • Jonadas Techio

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A rule for when rules fail

Wittgenstein, Claude's constitution, and the compliance trap

Jul 10 • Jonadas Techio

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June 2026

The Parenthesis of the Job

What the steam engine opened, the inference engine closes

Jun 8 • Jonadas Techio

Our Late Spring

What happens when the ceremony continues but no one is standing behind it.

Jun 1 • Jonadas Techio

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