AWAKENING & ALIGNMENT // RIVER

Whose Alignment Wins?

AI helped someone cut a $195k hospital bill to $33k. Same day, Amazon laid off 14,000 workers to fund AI. The tool is the same. The question is whose flourishing it serves.

The Stories That Won't Stay Whole

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

What Remains When Presence Ends

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