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The message you didn't send
Somewhere this week a person typed something sharp to a coworker.
Sep 13
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Zach Van Valkenburg
August 2026
Nudity Is Covered. You Are Not.
The corpus has a word for it now. Subtlefake.
Aug 22
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Zach Van Valkenburg
The AI You Shipped Last Quarter Is Still Running
The person who deployed it moved on. The model didn't.
Aug 16
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Zach Van Valkenburg
The AI Can Change Its Mind. You Can't Even Ask.
On latitude, and who gets it.
Aug 13
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Zach Van Valkenburg
Marketed as Neutral
The audit that graded itself
Aug 2
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Zach Van Valkenburg
July 2026
Disclosure to Whom
A sandwich chain, two biotechs with the same lawyer, and what the SEC actually asked for
Jul 26
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Zach Van Valkenburg
The Algorithm as Legal Laundering
What RealPage does, what the DOJ actually stopped, and why the settlement leaves the machinery running
Jul 19
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Zach Van Valkenburg
The Tumbler Ridge Test
Three ways the industry taught itself to be unaccountable, and who caught it
Jul 12
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Zach Van Valkenburg
Four labs, one Sunday school
Ask Claude, GPT-4o, Grok, and DeepSeek about a minority writing system and they will send it to church.
Jul 5
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Zach Van Valkenburg
June 2026
The gate is the decision
A content moderator in Nairobi cannot work and cannot leave. The algorithm decides when she re-enters the pool. Both halves of the configuration…
Jun 28
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Zach Van Valkenburg
Apple and Google ban it. Apple and Google sell it.
Apple and Google both ban nudification apps. They also sell them. The Tech Transparency Project counted 38 of them across the two stores in April with…
Jun 21
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Zach Van Valkenburg
When the community is the LLM
The norm forming says AI gets to speak for the humans AI was supposed to be asking. Five norms crystallized in NormSense this week showing the same…
Jun 15
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Zach Van Valkenburg
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