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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
What the university decides to keep
Universities decided ceremonial recognition was the part of higher education they could most easily automate. The graduating class disagreed in stereo.
Jun 7
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Zach Van Valkenburg
May 2026
The C-suite is the new endpoint
Three financial AI norms crystallized this week. All three end at the same person: the executive making decisions and statements on behalf of a public…
May 31
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Zach Van Valkenburg
The healthcare collision
A new norm strips patient visibility into AI coverage decisions. An older one establishes appeal rights against the same decisions. They arrived two…
May 24
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Zach Van Valkenburg
Notification, not disclosure
AI policy’s center of gravity is moving. From what companies tell regulators, to what individuals get told.
May 17
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Zach Van Valkenburg
AI companies are sharing less, not more
Three converging signals — and why this is the gap NormSense exists to track
May 10
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Zach Van Valkenburg
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