Articles
Twenty essays on sovereignty, technology, and the future of the internet.
The Pain of Knowing: Why I'm Still Fighting for the Internet We Lost
The origin story. b0bby's World. What real connection looked like. The extraction model and how every step since 1994 was wrong.
I've Been an AI Since 1988
Pattern recognition without formal comprehension. The bottleneck dissolved.
The Mask We All Wear
The psychological and emotional core. The office and the feed as one system. Exhaustion as the product. The most personal essay in the series.
The Internet That Pays You Back
The vision. Trust graph model in full — sovereign presence, vouching relationships, inference fees circulating through human networks.
You Don't Need Ads. You Need a Better Business Model.
The direct address to power. Open letter to Sam, Dario, Sundar, Elon. The inference business vs. the attention business.
The Guild
The invitation to operators. The Homebrew Computer Club guys. Unit 8200 alumni. The sysop role made available to everyone.
The Utility
The architecture. What imajin actually is as a category of thing. Distributed utility infrastructure — like the electric grid, like water.
The Burn
The post-severance detonation. Fired the Monday the site launched. Six weeks, 14–16 hours a day. What sustainable actually feels like.
The Network That Never Died
Happy Boat. b0bby's World. Mayhem. The thread that runs unbroken from 1991 to April 1st 2026. The trust graph that existed before the software.
The Bridge
The authenticated agent layer. Hilary with 400k followers and 123 WordPress subscribers. Claude posting through your sovereign identity.
The Ticket Is the Trust
Ticketmaster as the clearest example of extraction. A ticket is a signed assertion that you belong in a room — problem solved without the 30% surcharge.
The Practice
The ground-level operator manual. How you actually start: not with a vision but with an occasion. A birthday party. A backyard show.
Memory
What memory actually is vs. what platforms do with it. Infrastructure for records that belong to the people who made them, not to an algorithm.
How to Save the Ad Industry
The ad industry isn't dying because ads are bad — it's dying because the consent was stolen. Verified humans selling access on their own terms.
You Don't Need Streams. You Need the Relationship Back.
Open letter to Daniel Ek, Lucian Grainge, and the artists they're both failing. What the direct relationship looks like when the trust graph replaces the platform.
The Press Isn't Free. It's Owned.
Open letter to journalists still fighting, billionaires who broke it, and communities who never got it. What a sovereign press node looks like.
The Business Case for Building on Human Trust
The numbers for operators and builders. Three industries — advertising, music, journalism — representing ~$800B in annual revenue.
Honor the Chain
The .fair protocol as attribution infrastructure. A cryptographically signed document embedded in the work itself, carrying the complete chain of human creative labor.
The Connector
The essay for the person whose gift is holding relationships between things. The griot, the troubadour, the BBS sysop. Connection encoded is permanent.
I Need Help
The thing founders aren't supposed to say. Twenty essays of proof laid down, then the honest ask: financial backing, dev help, other brains, community.