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White Paper: Why Communities Resist Data Centers — and What Would Be Required to Make Them Welcome Neighbors

Posted on January 8, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Data centers are now core civic infrastructure: they underpin AI systems, cloud computing, financial transactions, communications, logistics, healthcare, and public administration. Yet despite their indispensability—and despite demand driven by heavy users such as AI researchers, enterprises, and governments—data … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Failure Modes Revealed by the Venezuela Escalation Narrative

Posted on January 4, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Framing Whether the events are fully real, partially real, or strategically misrepresented, the situation exposes multiple layered failure modes across information systems, legal regimes, executive restraint, alliance governance, and public epistemology. Crucially, these failures are orthogonal—they reinforce one another … Continue reading →

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White Paper: How 25,000 Barrels of DDT Waste Could Be Dumped Near Los Angeles—and What That Reveals About Regulatory Failure

Posted on January 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Reports emerging since 2020 indicate that industrial waste associated with DDT manufacturing was disposed in deep waters off the Los Angeles–Catalina corridor, including a debris field that early sonar interpretations suggested might include tens of thousands of barrel-like … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Parallel Insight: The Desirability and Value of AI for Near-Simultaneous Multi-Perspective Research

Posted on December 29, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Artificial intelligence introduces a historically novel research capability: the ability to examine, contrast, and synthesize multiple perspectives nearly simultaneously. This capacity does not merely accelerate research; it qualitatively alters how insight is generated. By enabling parallel exploration across … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Premises, Prompts, and Precision: Why Sound Assumptions and Well-Formed Prompts Determine the Quality of Artificial Intelligence Outputs

Posted on December 29, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Artificial intelligence systems do not reason from first principles in the human sense; they infer patterns from vast corpora of data under probabilistic constraints. As a result, the quality of AI outputs is tightly coupled to the quality … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Post Office Horizon Scandal: Legal and Moral Implications—and What It Teaches About Technology Management

Posted on December 25, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary The UK Post Office Horizon scandal is a canonical failure of socio-technical governance: an accounting system (Horizon, supplied by Fujitsu) produced apparent “shortfalls,” and those shortfalls were treated—organizationally and legally—as proof of human dishonesty rather than as a … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Why Systems Expertise Is Mistaken for IT And Why Institutions Must Learn to Recognize It for What It Is

Posted on December 24, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across contemporary institutions, individuals trained in systems thinking, engineering management, quality control, and process diagnostics are routinely misclassified as “IT.” This misclassification is not merely semantic. It distorts authority structures, obscures responsibility, leads to inappropriate task offloading, and … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Engagement Strategies Used by Young Women to Promote OnlyFans Channels

Posted on December 22, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Over the past several years, OnlyFans creators—particularly young women—have adopted a recognizable set of engagement strategies across social platforms. These methods rely heavily on emotional cues, parasocial prompts, and standardized “engagement-bait” templates that are optimized to trigger algorithmic … Continue reading →

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White Paper: AI Proliferation and the Intensification of Publish-or-Perish Pressures and Intellectual Productivity Demands

Posted on December 20, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence—particularly large language models capable of generating sophisticated analysis, literature reviews, creative content, and technical writing—has transformed the economics of knowledge production. What was once a human-bounded endeavor is now accelerated by computational … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Training Students and Educators to Use AI for Biblicist Analysis While Preserving Sound Interpretive Guardrails

Posted on December 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary As AI systems become increasingly capable of generating theological commentary, exegetical insights, and instructional materials, Christian educators face a growing need to integrate these tools without compromising biblically faithful interpretation. AI can accelerate learning, broaden access to historical … Continue reading →

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