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It’s Plausible: Truth, Repetition, and the Manufacture of Belief
Lux Colloquii

It’s Plausible: Truth, Repetition, and the Manufacture of Belief

Disinformation in the Age of AI
26 September 2026 ~ 36 minute read

Somewhere along the way, “truth-seeking” on the internet became its own strange ecosystem, complete with its own language, symbols, authorities, personalities, and recurring narratives. What begins as a reasonable question can quickly become something much harder to disentangle, particularly when genuine facts are mixed with speculation, technical language, and claims that seem to explain everything at once. This discussion started with one such story and ended somewhere considerably more interesting.

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The Devil We Feed: Fear, Attention, and the Creation of Reality
Lux Colloquii

The Devil We Feed: Fear, Attention, and the Creation of Reality

The Observer Becomes Part of the Story
26 September 2026 ~ 40 minute read

There comes a point in any investigation when the thing being investigated is no longer the only thing worth examining. We can follow the names, institutions, documents, networks, symbols, patterns, and apparent connections as far as they will take us, but sooner or later we have to turn the question back upon ourselves. What happens to the observer who spends enough time looking into the machinery of power, control, fear, and hidden influence? And what happens when the search for an explanation becomes part of the very environment we are trying to understand?

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The Centralization of Food: Agriculture, Industry, and Institutional Power
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The Centralization of Food: Agriculture, Industry, and Institutional Power

Food, Freedom, and the Systems Around Us
25 September 2026 ~ 51 minute read

There are certain questions that become more interesting the longer you sit with them, particularly when what first appears to be a question about food turns out to touch land, power, economics, science, institutions, technology, and the very structure of modern life. This discourse began with meat, but it gradually moved toward something considerably more fundamental: what happens when the systems we build to serve human needs begin to shape, constrain, and ultimately redefine those needs themselves?

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The Accountability Gap: Institutions, Incentives, and Consequences
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The Accountability Gap: Institutions, Incentives, and Consequences

Theranos and the Machinery of Trust
23 September 2026 ~ 21 minute read

There are certain conversations that begin with a single story and gradually reveal something much larger underneath it. Theranos is one of those stories. What initially appears to be a tale of technological deception opens into questions about institutions, incentives, accountability, evidence, and the ways ordinary people can be persuaded to trust things they have neither the knowledge nor the means to independently verify.

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The Language of Illness: From Symptoms to Systems
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The Language of Illness: From Symptoms to Systems

The Living Terrain of Body, Mind, and World
21 September 2026 ~ 23 minute read

There’s something about the simplest questions that can open into much larger territory. A cold, a symptom, a restless night, a shift in mood, a change in the weather: none of these things necessarily exist in isolation. They happen within a living system, within a particular person, at a particular moment, in relationship with everything surrounding them. And perhaps some of what we have forgotten begins there, in the relationship itself.

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