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All essays and updates published in 2026.
The price governing trillions in crypto derivatives liquidations and settlement is not derived from assets changing hands — it is derived from quotes. This is a proposal to replace the benchmark with one anchored to on-chain settlement, where the only way to move the price is to actually trade.
The distance to Andromeda has not changed. But if the universe is folded in higher dimensions, it may never have been the obstacle we assumed — a journey through topology, Kaluza-Klein theory, wormholes, and the Alcubierre metric.
Most of us act from the surface emotion — the anger, the contempt, the withdrawal — without ever reaching what sent it up. Learning to distinguish primary from secondary emotions is not just a tool for self-knowledge; for many, it is the beginning of understanding themselves for the first time.
"The property market has not been growing — it has been deferring. A prosecutorial essay on how debt props up prices, rent strips incomes, and the UK's illiquid conveyancing system quietly extends the default."
A short introduction to OEMI by Valeon, a rebuilt and scalable home for mathematical identities, derivations, and structured mathematical reference.
An essay on why contemplation matters in an age of metrics—how models, measurements, and proxies shape what we believe, and why humility, calibration, and discernment are prerequisites for progress.
When a voice can be generated on demand, presence becomes an output—and trust becomes a commons to protect. An essay on the Cartesian “I,” the inner monologue, and what it means to sound human.
object0 moves to Tauri with stronger syncing and broader distribution, while VocaSync expands into transcription, workflows, and a published Astro integration for Valeon-style audio and word highlighting.
An exploration of how perception renders pocket realities, why the universe arrives in layers, and what “parallel worlds” can mean—from quantum branches to the worlds we carry inside our minds.
object0 is a free, open-source, cross-platform desktop app for managing multiple S3 buckets across providers, with an encrypted local vault and a simple workflow for everyday storage tasks.
Use Cloudflare Tunnel to route a real HTTPS domain to your local dev server so you can test Stripe and auth webhooks without opening your firewall.
VocaSync by Valeon is now live: a scalable voice platform for speech synthesis and forced alignment, designed for creators, developers, and automation-first workflows.
WhisperX Studio is a simple, bring-your-own-key web UI that makes high-quality ASR practical without the CLI tax—powered by Replicate and designed to fit real creator workflows.
Contact feels like the simplest fact of life, yet physics suggests it’s an emergent interface: a boundary rendered by fields, constraints, and collective behavior. What we call touch is reality, compressed.
A local-first, bring-your-own-key wrapper around the OpenAI TTS API that turns a script-based pipeline into a daily-usable studio—open source, auditable, and easy to self-host.
A philosophical walk through the holographic principle—how black holes hint that information scales with surface area, and what that might imply about emergence, time, and causality.
From melanized fungi growing in Chernobyl’s radioactive ruins to bacteria learning to break down plastics and microbes thriving in scorching vents and subzero ice, this essay explores how life keeps finding a way—by adapting, specializing, and rewriting the boundaries of “habitable.”
Why “under promise, over deliver” is less a tactic than a philosophy of trust—and how reliability is remembered as a feeling long after details fade.
A meditation on how water, trade routes, and the physics of movement shaped where cities formed—and how the human body itself quietly authored the logic of streets, corridors, and built space.
