✦ Post Algorithmic Authority

(or, What the Machine Can’t Name, It Punishes)

A neuroscientist with a massive following called me a nightmare.

She didn’t say it to me—she said it about me.
To her audience.
To the feed.
To the machine that rewards reduction and punishment disguised as expertise.

I don’t think she meant harm.
I think she meant control.
I think she was trying to reinforce what safety looks like—under her terms.
And I didn’t…