09 February, 07:34
I just published The Attribution Wars: how courts function as attribution engines — and how modern governance continues when attribution collapses.
If you don’t understand this game, you can lose everything.
https://newsletter.marting...
If you don’t understand this game, you can lose everything.
https://newsletter.marting...
The "Attribution Wars" - by Martin Geddes
How the legal system wins by shifting attribution — and you pay the price
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01 February, 01:49
The real story isn’t QAnon.
It’s how inquiry ends when truth becomes too expensive.
A new framework for understanding “termination propaganda”.
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It’s how inquiry ends when truth becomes too expensive.
A new framework for understanding “termination propaganda”.
https://newsletter.marting...
Polaris Project on QAnon: attribution "termination propaganda" and the limits of inquiry
How even good-faith institutional responses to human trafficking can suppress truth by prematurely foreclosing authority
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30 January, 09:06
“QAnon” debates miss the point.
Q4881 isn’t about persuading anyone — it’s about conditioning how uncertainty is tolerated until other systems step in.
I’ve published a forensic breakdown of a Q drop as an information munition — pre-truth, pre-belief, pre-debunking.
Read: https://newsletter.marting...
Q4881 isn’t about persuading anyone — it’s about conditioning how uncertainty is tolerated until other systems step in.
I’ve published a forensic breakdown of a Q drop as an information munition — pre-truth, pre-belief, pre-debunking.
Read: https://newsletter.marting...
Q4881: Anatomy of an information munition
Reverse-engineering a state-level influence artefact before truth or belief enter the frame
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30 January, 02:04
If history vindicates Q, the real scandal won’t be what was hidden —
it will be how inquiry was structurally shut down.
This essay dissects the epistemic crime scene: Wikipedia’s role in manufacturing synthetic villains and heroes to keep governance operational.
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it will be how inquiry was structurally shut down.
This essay dissects the epistemic crime scene: Wikipedia’s role in manufacturing synthetic villains and heroes to keep governance operational.
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Wikipedia’s synthetic villains and heroes
How the online encyclopaedia constructs narrative governance objects
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29 January, 10:36
A school abuse inquiry.
A careful institutional response.
And an accountability loop that never quite closes.
A ΔΣ case study on attribution, continuity, and complacent closure.
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
A careful institutional response.
And an accountability loop that never quite closes.
A ΔΣ case study on attribution, continuity, and complacent closure.
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
Accounting without attribution: a ΔΣ case study
How a school governing body responded to findings of historical abuse
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27 January, 09:19
⚖️ When authority is asserted to enforce a criminal penalty, but jurisdiction is unclear, should supervision be closed down or kept open?
Public JR permission hearing — Manchester, 5 March.
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Public JR permission hearing — Manchester, 5 March.
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High Court permission hearing in Manchester on 5 March 2026
A public Judicial Review renewal on fine enforcement, jurisdiction, and access to supervision
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26 January, 06:44
I had a mental health afternoon out doing photos in Whitby today.
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25 January, 10:17
If Q is analysed only as a set of truth claims, the argument never resolves.
If analysed as a trading space under constraint, its structure becomes legible.
A systems perspective on Q as a 5GW artefact.
https://newsletter.marting...
If analysed as a trading space under constraint, its structure becomes legible.
A systems perspective on Q as a 5GW artefact.
https://newsletter.marting...
Q as trading space, not truth space - by Martin Geddes
Why truth alone cannot solve a 5GW survival problem
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23 January, 10:24
The weirdest thing after 2020 wasn’t disagreement.
It was that nothing ever really ended.
This essay looks at why characters like il Donaldo Trumpo show up when resolution stalls — and what they’re actually doing in the information environment.
https://newsletter.marting...
It was that nothing ever really ended.
This essay looks at why characters like il Donaldo Trumpo show up when resolution stalls — and what they’re actually doing in the information environment.
https://newsletter.marting...
Why “il Donaldo Trumpo” exists - by Martin Geddes
A Mexican boss, a silent intermission, and the problem of keeping reality intact when nothing resolves
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22 January, 09:57
If an institution can act, but you can’t locate who decided, accountability collapses.
ΔΣ is a new analytical framework for understanding how attribution degrades under institutional load — and how authority is preserved when meaning breaks down.
Designed to be used, not just read.
https://newsletter.marting...
ΔΣ is a new analytical framework for understanding how attribution degrades under institutional load — and how authority is preserved when meaning breaks down.
Designed to be used, not just read.
https://newsletter.marting...
Introducing ΔΣ: a new science of attributability
A limit theory of how institutional systems trade meaning for continuity
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20 January, 08:33
Why Q really did have to be this way
This is not a defence of Q, nor a belief claim.
It’s a structural analysis of why a phenomenon like Q could only survive in the form it took — given modern attribution risk, asymmetric retaliation, and fifth-generation information warfare constraints.
The argument is constraint-driven, not narrative-driven:
attribution → persuasion → survivability → protocol → behaviour → historical trace.
Written for history, not immediacy.
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
This is not a defence of Q, nor a belief claim.
It’s a structural analysis of why a phenomenon like Q could only survive in the form it took — given modern attribution risk, asymmetric retaliation, and fifth-generation information warfare constraints.
The argument is constraint-driven, not narrative-driven:
attribution → persuasion → survivability → protocol → behaviour → historical trace.
Written for history, not immediacy.
🔗 https://newsletter.marting...
Why Q really did have to be this way - by Martin Geddes
Attribution, persuasion, and the shape of Fifth-Generation Warfare (5GW)
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19 January, 05:55
Hamsterley Forest today.
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17 January, 07:04
📜 New: The New Normal of Untraceable Power
A High Court refusal order may seem routine — until you see what it reveals about how authority is tested (or isn’t).
This final essay in the trilogy shows why untraceable power is not just a case problem, but a constitutional one.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
A High Court refusal order may seem routine — until you see what it reveals about how authority is tested (or isn’t).
This final essay in the trilogy shows why untraceable power is not just a case problem, but a constitutional one.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
The new normal of untraceable power - by Martin Geddes
From legitimacy to manageability — and why that matters beyond one case
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17 January, 11:43
⚖️ New article: Assumed Lawful, Never Proved
A High Court refused permission for judicial review — but never determined whether it had jurisdiction to enforce punishment at all.
This piece explains why that matters in law, not rhetoric.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
A High Court refused permission for judicial review — but never determined whether it had jurisdiction to enforce punishment at all.
This piece explains why that matters in law, not rhetoric.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
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16 January, 07:00
📜 New: The Order That Refused to Answer The Question
A High Court refusal order doesn’t just decline permission — it reveals how the system routs, reframes, and closes challenges to its own authority.
A forensic reading you won’t get elsewhere.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
A High Court refusal order doesn’t just decline permission — it reveals how the system routs, reframes, and closes challenges to its own authority.
A forensic reading you won’t get elsewhere.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
The order that refused to answer the question
How a High Court permission refusal reveals the quiet mechanics of unaccountable enforcement
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15 January, 10:58
Twitter/X evolved through five governance eras. Audience growth isn’t just slower — the fundamental dynamics changed.
New analysis: attention still exists, but it no longer compounds the way it used to.
🔍 Read → https://newsletter.marting...
New analysis: attention still exists, but it no longer compounds the way it used to.
🔍 Read → https://newsletter.marting...
Twitter/X: Five eras, one structural reset
What a decade of analytics reveals about audience growth, shocks, and governance
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14 January, 09:01
When institutions are asked “by what right?” they rarely answer.
Instead, they substitute procedure for legitimacy — and trap challengers in a quagmire.
The Quagmire of Authority 👇
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Instead, they substitute procedure for legitimacy — and trap challengers in a quagmire.
The Quagmire of Authority 👇
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The quagmire of authority - by Martin Geddes
How institutions protect legitimacy by substituting procedure for the right to rule
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14 January, 07:20
This is the final part of a short AI boundary trilogy:
What AI cannot see — The machine is a normie
What AI must not decide — When tools moralise
When protection overruns agency — The moment safety must step back
In this last piece I explore why safety must yield once conscience is declared, and what it looks like for tools to retreat rather than dominate.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
What AI cannot see — The machine is a normie
What AI must not decide — When tools moralise
When protection overruns agency — The moment safety must step back
In this last piece I explore why safety must yield once conscience is declared, and what it looks like for tools to retreat rather than dominate.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
The moment safety must step back - by Martin Geddes
Why protective AI must retreat as human agency asserts itself
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13 January, 06:08
This is the second essay in a short series on AI in unstable times.
What AI cannot see: rupture and ruin
What AI must not decide: conscience
When AI must step back: declared agency (coming next)
Today’s piece: When tools moralise — on why guardrails become dangerous when they quietly replace human moral judgement.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
What AI cannot see: rupture and ruin
What AI must not decide: conscience
When AI must step back: declared agency (coming next)
Today’s piece: When tools moralise — on why guardrails become dangerous when they quietly replace human moral judgement.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
When tools moralise - by Martin Geddes
Why AI guardrails fail when remit is confused with conscience
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12 January, 04:02
The problem with AI isn’t bias.
It’s ruin blindness.
LLMs optimise for plausibility and continuity — not survival.
They can explain collapse perfectly after it happens.
Essay: The machine is a normie
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It’s ruin blindness.
LLMs optimise for plausibility and continuity — not survival.
They can explain collapse perfectly after it happens.
Essay: The machine is a normie
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The machine is a normie - by Martin Geddes
Why intelligence without skin in the game smooths catastrophe
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10 January, 01:38
A photo essay on one of the UK's oldest high-rise housing developments. https://newsletter.marting...
Moss Heights: physical comfort, spiritual cost
The post-war dream of your own home with central heating and hot water lost something essential in the process, and the result is an urban environment that has lost its humanity
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09 January, 09:35
🎧 Designer Hospitality in a Post-Human World – a new essay exploring how the concept of hospitality in music (from Orbital to Autechre) translates to legal systems increasingly automated and abstract.
When courts become unlocatable, what happens to legitimacy?
Read here: https://newsletter.marting...
When courts become unlocatable, what happens to legitimacy?
Read here: https://newsletter.marting...
Designer hospitality in a post-human world
When systems exceed human limits, what do they owe the humans subjected to them?
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07 January, 06:54
Modern money is enforceable promise.
Courts exist to enforce those promises.
What happens when promises scale faster than enforcement capacity?
New essay on ghost money → ghost courts:
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Courts exist to enforce those promises.
What happens when promises scale faster than enforcement capacity?
New essay on ghost money → ghost courts:
https://newsletter.marting...
Ghost courts are downstream of ghost money
Why modern justice thins as credit abstractions expand
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05 January, 05:45
Published today: Ghost lawyers (Mazur) and ghost courts (Geddes) — an analytical contrast of two structural attribution problems in English law. One arises in professional regulation, the other in the foundations of judicial authority.
If you’re interested in legality, constitutional traceability, and how courts manage the boundary between administrative convenience and fundamental authority, this article is for you.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
If you’re interested in legality, constitutional traceability, and how courts manage the boundary between administrative convenience and fundamental authority, this article is for you.
👉 https://newsletter.marting...
Ghost lawyers (Mazur) and ghost courts (Geddes)
Attribution, authority, and the limits of legal convenience in English law
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02 January, 03:34
Where does judicial power actually come from in high-volume court systems? A short, neutral briefing on statutory attribution and the Single Justice Procedure.
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Where does judicial power come from? - by Martin Geddes
On attribution, statute, and the Single Justice Procedure
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01 January, 04:52
A walk up Blake Fell in the Lake District a few days ago.
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31 December, 03:41
I was fined, sought to clarify ‘which court?’ in JR, and was refused — then hit with £3,700 costs. Not because my claim was weak, but because asking foundational questions of State authority can be financially penalised. A quiet constitutional issue.
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£3,695.81 for asking “which court?” - by Martin Geddes
How costs are being used to deter constitutional challenges that ask basic questions about lawful authority
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26 December, 01:28
"Aglow" — light festival in Bishop Auckland.
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24 December, 08:42
A High Court has refused permission for my Judicial Review.
The outcome matters less than what the refusal reveals: a system that now permits enforcement based on assumed authority, not demonstrable judicial acts.
This isn’t about a parking fine. It’s about rule of law → rule by law.
🧵👇
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The outcome matters less than what the refusal reveals: a system that now permits enforcement based on assumed authority, not demonstrable judicial acts.
This isn’t about a parking fine. It’s about rule of law → rule by law.
🧵👇
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High Court refusal reveals an “ambient authority” model of “rule by law”
A Judicial Review is refused permission—exposing how classical rule-of-law principles are displaced by managerial enforcement without attribution or accountability
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22 December, 09:16
Who Warrants the Warrant?
Courts issue warrants for coercion — but when judicial power is exercised by automated process, where does its legal authority come from?
I’ve now issued a High Court Part 8 claim asking that upstream constitutional question about the Single Justice Procedure.
📄 https://newsletter.marting...
Courts issue warrants for coercion — but when judicial power is exercised by automated process, where does its legal authority come from?
I’ve now issued a High Court Part 8 claim asking that upstream constitutional question about the Single Justice Procedure.
📄 https://newsletter.marting...
Who warrants the warrant? A “Meta-Entick” challenge to the Single Justice Procedure
When judicial power is exercised by automated process, where does its legal authority come from?
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