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A Warning Is Only Real When Someone Can Act

September 16, 2026 The Institutionalist
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The Notification Is Part of the Decision

August 24, 2026 The Institutionalist
Public Life

The Asylum Interview Is Not a Chatbot

August 23, 2026 The Institutionalist
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Status Is a Promise, Not a Coloured Dot

August 23, 2026 The Institutionalist
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Do Not Predict the Defendant

August 22, 2026 The Institutionalist
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Do Not Make Human–AI Agreement the Goal
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Move Beyond Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Embrace the Power of System on Chips and FPGAs
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Move Beyond Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Embrace the Power of System on Chips and FPGAs
Revolutionizing Knowledge Management with Tilemap Web Apps: From Dungeons & Dragons to Italian Palaces
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Revolutionizing Knowledge Management with Tilemap Web Apps: From Dungeons & Dragons to Italian Palaces
ITER engineers: the lost stars
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ITER engineers: the lost stars
Do Not Make Human–AI Agreement the Goal
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Do Not Make Human–AI Agreement the Goal
From Reading to Doing: Alkemata’s Capsule Experiment
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A Social Network Designed to Leave You Alone
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A Judge May Use an AI Draft—but Cannot Borrow Its Reasons
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Give the Caseworker a Map, Not a Score

August 16, 2026 The Institutionalist

Decision-support tools should show caseworkers evidence, provenance, gaps, uncertainty and lawful options—not compress a person into a recommendation score.

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A Judge May Use an AI Draft—but Cannot Borrow Its Reasons

August 15, 2026 The Institutionalist

AI can assist judicial preparation, but a judge must still verify the record and law, resist anchoring, protect confidentiality and own every material reason.

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The Hearing That Should Stay in the Room

August 14, 2026 The Institutionalist

Remote hearings can widen access, but cases involving liberty, family life, confidential advice, coercion or vulnerable participation may still require a physical courtroom.

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Who Owns the Court Transcript?

August 13, 2026 The Institutionalist

Automated court transcripts can improve speed and access, but only certification, traceable corrections and human responsibility can turn probabilistic text into an authoritative record.

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What Makes Change Happen? Physics, Time, and the Reality of Becoming

August 13, 2026 The Scientist

Physics predicts how states vary with time with extraordinary precision. But does it explain what makes change actually happen—and can that question be turned into an experimental programme rather than…

Public Life

The Handoff Is the Legal-Tech Product

August 12, 2026 The Institutionalist

Legal self-help succeeds only when it transfers consented context and deadlines to the right human professional—not when it merely generates a form or referral link.

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Can Machine Translation Carry a Legal Right?

August 11, 2026 The Institutionalist

Machine translation can widen access to courts, but testimony, consent and authoritative legal texts still need accountable human interpretation and a clear path to correction.

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The Form That Knows When to Stop

August 10, 2026 The Institutionalist

Guided legal forms can make justice easier to enter, but they must recognise uncertainty, urgency and vulnerability—and know when to transfer control to a person.

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When Private Vendors Build Public Digital Infrastructure

August 6, 2026 The Institutionalist

Private vendors can strengthen public digital services, but rights-critical infrastructure must remain understandable, auditable, operable and genuinely replaceable.

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Frontier Engineering Often Fails at the Joint

August 5, 2026 The Scientist

Frontier components win headlines, but interfaces carry mismatched materials, loads and responsibilities. Reliability depends on making joints inspectable, testable and repairable.

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ITER engineers: the lost stars
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ITER engineers: the lost stars
A Green CO₂ Light Does Not Mean Clean Air
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A Green CO₂ Light Does Not Mean Clean Air
An E-Bike Battery Is Not a Fuel Tank
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