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Conceptual illustration of a person facing an imposing access gate, with a glowing city enclosed by a vast brass framework and connected by gold lines.

Agenda 2030: A Better World. Permission Required.

Darren Hicks •

The promise is a better world. The question is who gets to run it. Follow the expanding reach of Agenda 2030 through land, local government, global goals, finance and digital policy.

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Political satire: smiling politicians drop enormous sacks of gold from helicopters onto a crumbling city, crushing cars as people flee the falling sacks and rubble.

Cloward–Piven and the Politics of Overload

Darren Hicks •

The 1966 proposal made crisis a political instrument. Sixty years later, America's failures demand an accounting of who makes the promises, who pays, and who gains power when the system needs rescue.

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Life 3.0, Nine Years Later: The Future Arrived Differently Than We Expected

Darren Hicks •

Life 3.0 appeared 78 days after the transformer paper. Nine years later, useful AI is already changing work, ownership and control—without waiting for AGI.

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Conceptual illustration of Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Mountains framed by jail-window bars, public records and abstract data points

Inside Salt Lake’s Changing Jail Population

Darren Hicks •

Three years of jail snapshots reveal a changing citizenship mix, a trap in charge descriptions, and the loss of demographic detail in 2026. Explore the aggregate evidence.

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A Nationwide Dive Into Forecasting Accuracy

Darren Hicks •

Years of archived weather forecasts reveal a geographic pattern. Explore forecast lead times, seasonal bias, outliers and coverage in an interactive nationwide study.

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The Wheel of Empires: Anacyclosis Simulator

The Wheel of Empires: Anacyclosis Simulator

Darren Hicks • • Interactive

Polybius's seven-stage cycle of civilizations, as an interactive essay. Step or auto-play each regime, make dynastic choices in a generational saga, and read period newspapers as monarchies, republics, and mobs rise and fall.

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The Cycles of Collapse: Elite Overproduction Through History

The Cycles of Collapse: How Elite Overproduction Drives Societies Toward Crisis

Darren Hicks •

From Imperial China's Taiping Rebellion to America's 2020s crisis, Peter Turchin's research reveals a chilling pattern: when societies produce too many elites competing for limited power, collapse follows. An interactive journey through five historical cases that all follow the same deadly playbook.

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Bitcoin Pricing Models

The Most Popular Bitcoin Pricing Models

Darren Hicks •

A tour of six widely cited frameworks for estimating Bitcoin's value, complete with interactive charts.

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A Century of U.S. Bailouts Analysis

A Century of U.S. Bailouts: 1913 → 2025 Patterns, Turning-Points, and the Future of 'Too Big to Fail'

Darren Hicks •

From WW-I war-finance to pandemic-era money-printing, this article traces every major U.S. bailout, asks what might have happened had rescue been withheld, and weighs whether ever-larger interventions are here to stay.

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The unfortunate Intel i7-13700K that was cooked

My Intel i7-13700K Died: An Undervolting Adventure

Darren Hicks •

How a dead CPU led to the discovery of undervolting, resulting in lower temperatures and surprisingly better performance on an Intel i7-13700K.

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Bitcoin Core to Knots Migration

Bitcoin Core to Knots Migration: Protecting Bitcoin's Protocol Focus

Darren Hicks •

How the Bitcoin community is migrating from Core to Knots implementation to preserve Bitcoin as a financial protocol rather than a general-purpose platform.

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Ruby on Rails - Modern Web Architecture

Ruby on Rails - Modern Web Architecture

Darren Hicks •

Exploring the latest trends in web architecture and best practices for scalable applications.

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How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Software Development

Darren Hicks •

Exploring how AI is revolutionizing the software development landscape, from code generation to testing and deployment.

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JSON Schema - It's About Time

JSON Schema - It's About Time

Darren Hicks •

Turns out having provably valid data might be important. JSON Schema - took you long enough.

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Git Branching Strategies

Git Branching Strategies

Darren Hicks •

Release early, release often. But how do you manage your branches?

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Ruby on Rails Application Server Showdown

Ruby on Rails Application Server Showdown

Darren Hicks •

Unicorn, Puma, Falcon, and Passenger. Which one is right for you?

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