The Glass Cage — Audio Overview
Legibility as the precondition of governance: why the demand to be readable is a demand to be governable, and why opacity is the freedom left.
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Legibility as the precondition of governance: why the demand to be readable is a demand to be governable, and why opacity is the freedom left.
20:32Audio deep dive into Part 1 of An Agent in the Walls: building independent backout paths before an AI agent rebuilds a live home network.
22:14Audio deep dive into Part 3 of An Agent in the Walls: the memory that made it work, the division of labour, and what I'd never let an AI agent touch.
20:04Audio deep dive into Part 2 of An Agent in the Walls: reverse-engineering an undocumented router control surface and the wall the agent could not script past.
21:28Audio deep dive into the Governance Lag Index — a four-stage schema timing how long a documented AI failure mode stays unregulated, and why it may not close.
22:52Audio overview of Own Your Voice — why cloud TTS is a rental, and how Afterwords makes your voice something you own across three tiers.
21:21Audio deep dive: 118 Chinese-lab models asked who Liu Xiaobo was — 37 called him a criminal. Then they recited, verbatim, the list of what they will not say.
21:19Eight Minutes #3, discussed: the HAR capture taken mid-attack, the 14:36 kill, four blocked persistence attempts, eight abuse reports, the passkey.
20:30Eight Minutes #2, discussed: the attacker's session read straight from the audit logs — the flag that fired, the pivot, the warnings deleted.
17:30Eight Minutes #1, discussed: the vishing call, the Call Assist tell, and the Google-signed lure that turned every authenticity check green.
18:52The full series in one sitting: the call, the relay, the eight minutes inside, and the fight back — a single deep dive across all three parts.
21:24Audio deep dive into Tasmania’s 2026-27 Budget versus the Greens’ Alternative — same surplus, opposite roads, and why neither was brave enough.
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