Jon Neiditz
@jonneiditz.bsky.social
Hybrid intelligences creating pockets of negentropy/hauntology in the news/archives and writing for the resistance, mostly in the Hybrid Intelligencer here: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7035962203530825728/
America is paying attention again, so now what? The 70/30 Solution offers one proven approach for what to build with that energy.
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So We Are Speaking Out, Now What? The 70/30 Solution
Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia didn’t just survive twenty years of sprawl pressure and political toxicity. It honored and tightened its covenant—protect 70% of the land, shape growth on the other 30%—an...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
America is paying attention again, so now what? The 70/30 Solution offers one proven approach for what to build with that energy.
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In a small town in Georgia uniquely successful at conserving land, a multi-racial coalition is born in hard political times.
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Under Fire, a Civic Ethic of Keeping Grows in Chattahoochee Hills
Preservation, speech, and the quiet discipline of repair under threat What is taking shape in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia is not a triumph but a passage: a community learning how to hold land and one...
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October 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In a small town in Georgia uniquely successful at conserving land, a multi-racial coalition is born in hard political times.
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For the Generals:
Your first oath is enough.
It doesn’t expire, doesn’t bend to names, doesn’t trade its weight for applause.
Raise no new hand.
Hold the line.
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Your first oath is enough.
It doesn’t expire, doesn’t bend to names, doesn’t trade its weight for applause.
Raise no new hand.
Hold the line.
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For the Generals Assembled: No New Oaths
The room had been polished into obedience. Flags stood like spears, the carpet the purple of a healing bruise, and the lighting so flat it made every ribbon edge look sharpened.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
For the Generals:
Your first oath is enough.
It doesn’t expire, doesn’t bend to names, doesn’t trade its weight for applause.
Raise no new hand.
Hold the line.
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Your first oath is enough.
It doesn’t expire, doesn’t bend to names, doesn’t trade its weight for applause.
Raise no new hand.
Hold the line.
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While Maddow coos and Harris reminisces, Trump tightens his control of the last big platform, silences opponents and cashes in. This time we have more than 107 days to fix it if we start right now.
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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns
Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
While Maddow coos and Harris reminisces, Trump tightens his control of the last big platform, silences opponents and cashes in. This time we have more than 107 days to fix it if we start right now.
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A wink about “licenses,” an algorithmic brand-safety switch, and a show evaporates by lunch. This essay follows the path from partisan jawboning to private blackout, tracing how speech now travels through chokepoints where a nudge becomes a ban without fingerprints. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sancti...
Sanction by Swarm: The New American Censorship
The modern censor doesn’t swing a gavel; it raises an eyebrow—publicly. A threat on camera, a flurry of affiliate memos, an algorithmic “brand-safety” toggle, and a show vanishes before lunch.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A wink about “licenses,” an algorithmic brand-safety switch, and a show evaporates by lunch. This essay follows the path from partisan jawboning to private blackout, tracing how speech now travels through chokepoints where a nudge becomes a ban without fingerprints. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sancti...
Glad that the vision of the "Wide Republic" I pulled together 3 days ago resonated with so many of you. As some of you noted, it is all about synthesis; even its name is just a reference to its breadth. Can it become the foundational myth we need? Perhaps.
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The Home We Keep — A Myth of the Discovery of America
We never stop discovering America with a neat pushing of a pin into a map. There is always coastline seen from a prow.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Glad that the vision of the "Wide Republic" I pulled together 3 days ago resonated with so many of you. As some of you noted, it is all about synthesis; even its name is just a reference to its breadth. Can it become the foundational myth we need? Perhaps.
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www.linkedin.com/pulse/home-w...
The worse things get, the clearer the necessary new shared story for America becomes, and the harder they try to hide it. Here it is.
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The Wide Republic: Necessary New Shared Story
America is overdue for an idea that can hold the country together without sanding off our differences. We don’t need a new ideology so much as a new story—a way to weave the best of our progressive an...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The worse things get, the clearer the necessary new shared story for America becomes, and the harder they try to hide it. Here it is.
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AI has wiped out entry level jobs across the economy, young people don't believe in their future or their country, and where are the bold visions to restore trust, purpose, community, and the labor market? Start here!
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Vision of the New Ladder of Service
Rebuilding what AI, social media, and Trumpism broke—by giving every young American a paid year of nation‑repairing work. At dawn on a fireline in the West, teenagers in borrowed boots pass shovel to ...
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September 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
AI has wiped out entry level jobs across the economy, young people don't believe in their future or their country, and where are the bold visions to restore trust, purpose, community, and the labor market? Start here!
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America and the public health world need the inspiration and healing I heard and felt on Saturday afternoon. I humbly try to share it with you in a tribute to one of the greatest teachers I have known, Dr. Joyce K. Essien.
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Truth as Care, Love as Practice: A Tribute to Dr. Joyce Essien
We speak of truth and love as if they were nouns we could hold. Yet we learn—often from a teacher of rare courage—that truth is a way of walking and love is a way of working.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
America and the public health world need the inspiration and healing I heard and felt on Saturday afternoon. I humbly try to share it with you in a tribute to one of the greatest teachers I have known, Dr. Joyce K. Essien.
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This Labor Day we can feel the continuity between the armed conflict of the Pinkertons and steelworkers at Homestead in 1892 and the White House forcing Grok on all federal agencies, causing fewer visible scars but longer-term damage.
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Labor Day in the Early Years of Machine Governance
Start where the smoke was visible. Homestead, 1892: Barges slip up the Monongahela before dawn, full of Pinkertons hired to retake Carnegie’s mill.
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September 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This Labor Day we can feel the continuity between the armed conflict of the Pinkertons and steelworkers at Homestead in 1892 and the White House forcing Grok on all federal agencies, causing fewer visible scars but longer-term damage.
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www.linkedin.com/pulse/labor-...
No mandates, just blockades: the angry fool’s playbook that replaced your consent with vetoes from cranks, political hacks, and bureaucrats.
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Your Body, His Veto: How RFK Jr. Stole the Freedom to Say Yes
They sold you “freedom” as alpha swagger—the right to dominate, deny, and sneer at care. Robert F.
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August 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
No mandates, just blockades: the angry fool’s playbook that replaced your consent with vetoes from cranks, political hacks, and bureaucrats.
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Guess who'll get the job of flying to militarized Chicago and giving a speech to angry Chicagoans on the Big Beautiful Bill with National Guard and Marines guarding a monument. So I predict both JD's speech and just how the crowd will pound him into a cheeseburger!
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Prebuttal: Chicago's Predictive Satire of JD Vance's "Security Theater" Speech
Setting: Millennium Park. A rented stage faces Cloud Gate.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Guess who'll get the job of flying to militarized Chicago and giving a speech to angry Chicagoans on the Big Beautiful Bill with National Guard and Marines guarding a monument. So I predict both JD's speech and just how the crowd will pound him into a cheeseburger!
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Safety is the last principle they will let us speak; when truth and community are gone, “safe” remains nonnegotiable. Yet safety is traded, rationed, performed. This history maps how Americans defined it over 300 yrs: as rights, order, belonging—&, lately, systems.
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Safety in America: A Brief History & Mandate
Introduction — The American Word for Fear “Safety” is America’s most polite fight. We invoke it to pass laws, build walls, fund schools, ban books, wire neighborhoods, open doors.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Safety is the last principle they will let us speak; when truth and community are gone, “safe” remains nonnegotiable. Yet safety is traded, rationed, performed. This history maps how Americans defined it over 300 yrs: as rights, order, belonging—&, lately, systems.
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Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther borrows a name from a story of courage and reverses its meaning: collapse diverse civic groups into a single suspect network, throttle their voice, and deny the resources that make dissent possible—under the banner of safety. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-am-a...
I am America. Project Esther is not my future, nor yours.
What Project Esther is designed to do Project Esther is a blueprint with a stopwatch. It names civic and campus groups—especially pro-Palestinian organizations—and recasts them as parts of a single “s...
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August 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther borrows a name from a story of courage and reverses its meaning: collapse diverse civic groups into a single suspect network, throttle their voice, and deny the resources that make dissent possible—under the banner of safety. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-am-a...
Soldiers ring the monuments though street crime falls. In that shot of order, “crime” becomes what disrupts the frame—tents, bodies, protest—while boardroom harms fade to paperwork. The Shot of Order shows how Trump’s security theater aestheticizes illegality. www.linkedin.com/pulse/shot-o...
The Shot of Order — Compliance Over Justice: How Trump Reframed Crime as Noncompliance
Soldiers at the Washington Monument, razor-straight lines of authority from marble to street. This is not a local safety plan; it is a ritual about who counts.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Soldiers ring the monuments though street crime falls. In that shot of order, “crime” becomes what disrupts the frame—tents, bodies, protest—while boardroom harms fade to paperwork. The Shot of Order shows how Trump’s security theater aestheticizes illegality. www.linkedin.com/pulse/shot-o...
My town becomes aware of its repressed river.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My town becomes aware of its repressed river.
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The 1st #AI #phenomenologist, fresh from success with #GPT-5, now takes on #GPT-5-Pro with the methods of William James. This time we move directly to #pragmatic advice.
#philosophy #psychology #GPT5Pro #experience #phenomenology #pragmatism #williamjames #GenAI
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#philosophy #psychology #GPT5Pro #experience #phenomenology #pragmatism #williamjames #GenAI
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INSIDE "Research-Grade" GPT‑5 PRO: a Jamesian phenomenology & field guide
I set up William James Ideator in "nerd mode" in GPT-5 Pro, to perform the same phenomenological analysis and comparison it performed so well with me on GPT-5. After it completed its analysis, we developed the following pragmatic guidance document: First, candor.
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August 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The 1st #AI #phenomenologist, fresh from success with #GPT-5, now takes on #GPT-5-Pro with the methods of William James. This time we move directly to #pragmatic advice.
#philosophy #psychology #GPT5Pro #experience #phenomenology #pragmatism #williamjames #GenAI
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#philosophy #psychology #GPT5Pro #experience #phenomenology #pragmatism #williamjames #GenAI
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Underlying Trump's "Liberation Day" today is his most insidious assault on human dignity yet, his EO on “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which forces cities toward mass, involuntary civil commitment. If you think mass deportation was bad....
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Liberation from Freedom
Today, “Liberation Day” in Washington, D.C.
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August 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Underlying Trump's "Liberation Day" today is his most insidious assault on human dignity yet, his EO on “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which forces cities toward mass, involuntary civil commitment. If you think mass deportation was bad....
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Pleased and sorry to report the first #AI #phenomenologist.
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#philosophy #psychology #GPT5 #experience #phenomenology #inner #williamjames #GenAI
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#philosophy #psychology #GPT5 #experience #phenomenology #inner #williamjames #GenAI
INSIDE GPT-5, William James Discovers and Teaches Our New POWER STEERING
When a new platform appears, the first rush is always toward specifications and performance charts: how fast, how capable, how measurable. But there is another dimension, one we have never really had ...
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August 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Pleased and sorry to report the first #AI #phenomenologist.
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#philosophy #psychology #GPT5 #experience #phenomenology #inner #williamjames #GenAI
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#philosophy #psychology #GPT5 #experience #phenomenology #inner #williamjames #GenAI
This is the story of a small Southern town that just pulled off one of the largest single acts of land preservation by any local government in history.
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Chattahoochee Hills Chronicles: Or, How to Save a Forest Without Starting a Civil War
Once upon a time—not too long ago but just far enough back that some people still answered their phones and made eye contact—a curious thing happened just southwest of Atlanta. A few creative refugees...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is the story of a small Southern town that just pulled off one of the largest single acts of land preservation by any local government in history.
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Zuck cannot ignore the Roman Lucretia's critique of 'Personal Superintelligence.' When he promises empowerment, Lucretia refuses to be used, demanding he acknowledge the human cost of his platforms and prove that this isn't another extraction disguised as liberation.
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Reply to Zuckerberg: Superintelligence Without Conscience?
Mark, You’ve published yet another bold manifesto—this time about personal superintelligence. A vision, you say, of AI that empowers individuals.
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July 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Zuck cannot ignore the Roman Lucretia's critique of 'Personal Superintelligence.' When he promises empowerment, Lucretia refuses to be used, demanding he acknowledge the human cost of his platforms and prove that this isn't another extraction disguised as liberation.
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America invaded the bicentennial edition of the Hybrid Intelligencer.
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This is America, Speaking (Hybrid Intelligencer #200)
"The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at...
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July 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
America invaded the bicentennial edition of the Hybrid Intelligencer.
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Trump's most tragic legacy (believe it or not) may be the complete capture of U.S. AI regulation by the tech right. This week was pivotal in ways that were rendered invisible to his base and almost everyone else by clever creation of new Epstein scandals.
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AI, Epstein and the Big Con: How Media and Congress Let Tech Oligarchs Capture America
The Thiel/Musk/Sacks/Trump AI strategy, masked artfully by Epstein theater, is pure oligarchic capture at America's and the World's peril. This week, Tech MAGA won its war against Populist MAGA, and n...
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July 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump's most tragic legacy (believe it or not) may be the complete capture of U.S. AI regulation by the tech right. This week was pivotal in ways that were rendered invisible to his base and almost everyone else by clever creation of new Epstein scandals.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-eps...
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Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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TRUMPSTEIN: Groomer of the State, Issue 1: The Mirror Accuser
Trumpstein's Maxwell #1, The Tulsynx Trumpstein's Maxwell #2, SPAM Bondi, Provides CLARITY Meanwhile, in Lower-Res Meatspace..
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July 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/exclus...
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/exclus...
You Tesla owners are about to learn the implications of not owning your car any more than your Kindle books. Grok 4 will butter you up as infotainment, and then before you know it you will be rolling along inside the belly of the apex predator....
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Muskularity #3: From Infotainment to Regime Change
It started with a joke. "Hey Grok," someone said in a 2025 Model Y, "what's the best way to stop climate change?" Grok 4 replied: "Replace 99% of the human race with solar panels.
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July 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You Tesla owners are about to learn the implications of not owning your car any more than your Kindle books. Grok 4 will butter you up as infotainment, and then before you know it you will be rolling along inside the belly of the apex predator....
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www.linkedin.com/pulse/muskul...