Andrew McCluskey

Crucially, these systems provided temporal insulation. New ideas were protected from immediate suppression or premature assimilation long enough to circulate, stabilize, and eventually become mundane. That protective function allows heretical thought to survive long enough to become common sense.

Every major digital scenius to date formed on captured infrastructure. Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, crypto Twitter. The pattern repeats: a scene forms, generates cultural and cognitive surplus, the platform extracts it, then enforces legibility through metrics, feeds, and incentives. Thinkability collapses into optimization. The scene disperses or... See more

The founder’s question isn’t just “what problem am I solving?”

It’s “Can my users name this problem yet, or do I have to name it for them?”

If they can name it, you’re in a race. You need to be faster, better, and cheaper than the alternatives they already see.

If they can’t, you’re in a different game. Your first job isn’t building the product. It’s... See more

For example, given the worsening state of human rights in the USA, it is becoming less tenable for an organisation such as AIUK to host data in this jurisdiction.