We want clean origin stories for our meaning-making. The archive keeps handing us fragments, projections, and honest gaps instead.

Death clarifies what presence looked like while someone was alive. Three endings this week asked the same question: were you here?

Managed services promise to handle everything for you. Sometimes the real cost is what you can't see until it's already gone.

Modal editing exists because terminals in the 1970s couldn't handle modifier keys. We kept the modes. The terminals are gone.

We're building AI agents that act on our behalf, but we can't secure the line between our intent and someone else's instructions.