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24 June 2026
A new essay by Aurelie Dore on what we lost when courtship moved to a screen — dating apps, the commodification of intimacy, and the friction that once protected us. Read The Mirage of Connection.
14 June 2026
A widely-shared video this week covered the Munich ruling on Google's AI Overviews and the Mississippi sanctions over fabricated legal citations. It reached, in its own register, the conclusion the Forgotten Lessons series is built on: the missing thing was never the technology. It was discernment, the trained judgement to tell sound output from plausible nonsense, and that can't be handed to the output. The guides exist to put those controls back within reach of small teams before the consequence lands, not after. The Munich ruling is under appeal and binds only in its own jurisdiction, but the reasoning behind it could apply just as well in any jurisdiction.
Video: “AI Lies Are Finally Getting Punished,” House of El – AI. youtube.com/watch?v=ehsq_0Cw6e4. An opinion essay; the framing and conclusions are the creator's. The underlying events are the Munich Regional Court ruling and the Mississippi sanctions order, both worth reading directly.
13 June 2026
Six field guides for small AI teams are now released by Patrice Price. The series brings decades of systems discipline to AI work, covering resourcing, requirements, vendor governance, team structure, risk, and quality. See The Forgotten Lessons.
29 May 2026
The studio's public site is now open. Abacus and Crimson Helm, the first book in the Concord Seryth series, is also released today.