Martin Geddes Channel

233 people. A crippled A321. A cornfield. Nobody died. The job wasn’t to fly well. It was to crash well. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/ural-178-when-safety-and-success

AI can be too credulous. Or too conspiratorial. The trick is pushing inquiry right to the evidential limit — but no further. I built a tool for that. The “coffin corner” method of rational inquiry Now try to break it: https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-coffin-corner-method-of-rational

I have lost many of my intellectual playmates. So this is a rather personal essay about Covid, AI, epistemology, Aphex Twin, information warfare, loneliness — and why I don’t want to spend the rest of my life grieving. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/murdered-by-non-recognition-of-the

New essay: 🍫 When does an enshittified product stop being a bad version of the thing—and cease to be the thing at all? KitKat → ShitKat → KatShit. A chocolate-fuelled excursion into brands, recognition, reconstruction, trust, and why reality gets the final say. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/kitkat-shitkat-or-katshit

Why did intelligent people get trapped inside the Covid “mind lock”? And why were “conspiracy theorists” such a threat? R–R–R suggests the answer lies upstream: control the Recognition, then make Reconstruction progressively harder. And Q pre-positioned the antidote. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/how-the-scamdemic-mind-lock-worked

What if everyone is carefully studying an apple… but the thing in the case is actually a banana? The reasoning can be perfectly sound. The original recognition can still be wrong. My new essay explores the philosophical gap where counterfeits acquire “it-ness” — and good reasoning can make the error harder to undo. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/ontic-caching-and-the-ontological

Professor of Mischief has been cooking. 😈 I’ve released a prototype AI “information weapon” for auditing authority. Give an AI the R–R tool, an official document, and enough context. Ask it to reconstruct the claimed chain of authority and show you where — if anywhere — it breaks. Free to experiment with, reverse-engineer and improve. Go create some productive havoc. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-recognitionreconstruction-information

Civilisation requires recognition in order to scale. It requires reconstruction in order to remain corrigible. We need both. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/recognition-is-not-enough

The most powerful mind-control system isn’t the one that lies to you. It’s the one that turns reality into evidence against itself. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/is-trump-a-cult-leader

I challenged the legal basis for enforcing a court fine. Instead of pausing while the High Court considered the issue, the State outsourced coercion to Marston Recovery, who increased the amount I had to pay as enforcement escalated. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-states-strongmen

British Airways doesn’t just paint its aircraft. It paints its organisational philosophy. This article explores why the BA livery is unusually effective, and in doing so teaches a general method for analysing any designed system: Geometry, Topology, Field and Observability (GTFO). The examples don’t stop with BA. Brussels Airlines, American Airlines and Lufthansa all reveal different failure modes. The paint stops being decoration. It becomes evidence. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/british-airways-livery-as-gtfo-teaching

‼️British academic wins legal battle as UK court protects anti-Zionist beliefs Former University of Bristol professor David Miller has won a landmark legal victory after the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that his anti-Zionist beliefs are protected under equality law. The ruling follows a long-running legal battle over his dismissal from the university. https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel

Was “QAnon” ever an object to be investigated—or was it first a recogniser to be loaded? My latest article deconstructs a 2020 Washington Monthly piece that quoted me as evidence. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-qanon-cult

How do you methodically launder a child abduction through a court order? My latest essay isn’t about outrage—it’s about reverse-engineering the optimisation architecture of the judgment itself. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/how-to-methodically-launder-a-child

So, what do you really think, Martin? https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/this-is-not-an-essay

One custody dispute. One court order. One question I couldn’t stop asking: who was really on trial? https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-real-defendant-in-north-carolina

What makes something a judgment? A dead judge. A coin toss. An AI. The Italian Constitution. A clown. A mother who quietly becomes a threat. Ten thought experiments. One real case. Play along and discover your own theory of adjudication. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/before-we-can-ask-whether-a-judgment

Journalism lets reality discipline the narrative. Anti-journalism lets the narrative discipline reality. A constitutional test using one BBC News article as the worked example. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/is-bbc-news-still-doing-journalism

New essay: Aristotle vs Marx Can you tell the difference between an institution that is failing… and one that has quietly become something else? Using Aristotle’s concepts of archē (governing principle) and telos (purpose), I propose a framework for recognising institutional capture beneath an apparently normal surface. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/aristotle-vs-marx

I’ve opened a limited sale of my signed photographic prints to help fund my ongoing truth and freedom work. Support the mission, receive a handmade print or postcard as a thank-you. What I’m really selling is resistance to tyranny. The art is simply the conduit. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/art-sale-to-fund-my-freedom-work