Theology, technology, and political economy, read together. I write Endwise. An American who studied institutional decline for years, then moved to Amsterdam. Christ follower.https://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3muzel3jjsc2pWhat level of explanation would change your mind? Every explanation is for someone: "Explainable" is a word with a hole in it. Machines with power owe an account. Persons owe a relationship. We keep demanding each from the other. ➤ https://bianchi.substack.com/p/the-explainability-heresy08 Sep 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzel3jjsc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mujqbjwj3k2sThis week's essay will instead be delivered live, in-person, at a stage in Amsterdam. I'll be speaking on how AI models make privacy structurally impossible this Friday at Common S3nse. Its a conference and hackathon, gathering the best Privacy, Security and DeFi builders. Join us ✊ 4–5 Sept AMS02 Sep 2026 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujqbjwj3k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mtww7zrue22kActive users. GDP. Church attendance. Papers published. Child mortality. Click-through rate. Every one of them started as a way of talking about the work. Some of them ate it. I spent five years building the numbers that ate mine. bianchi.substack.com/p/the-proxy-and-the-person https://bianchi.substack.com/p/the-proxy-and-the-person25 Aug 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtww7zrue22khttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mthphkwr2s2a"Dictation was never the fraud. Forged responsibility was." Substack's detector read me as 100% AI one week and 100% human the next. Tertius could have told them: authorship was never about the hand. ➤ bianchi.substack.com/p/should-you-be-ashamed-to-use-ai19 Aug 2026 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthphkwr2s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mstiafl7xc25I killed my startup for forty-four cents, before anything was built, and held the funeral anyway. Validation and viability are different variables. https://bianchi.substack.com/p/startup-funeral-human-led-assurance?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true11 Aug 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstiafl7xc25https://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3msbufbj6fs2gEveryone reviewed a different Odyssey. French saw a rebuke to the age, Klein saw Judeo-Christian ethics smuggled into Homer. A sacred law with no lawgiver, so each critic funded it himself. A PhD candidate asked the only real question. https://bianchi.substack.com/p/a-bard-for-a-civilization-at-dusk04 Aug 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbufbj6fs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3msbufbj6fs2gEveryone reviewed a different Odyssey. French saw a rebuke to the age, Klein saw Judeo-Christian ethics smuggled into Homer. A sacred law with no lawgiver, so each critic funded it himself. A PhD candidate asked the only real question. https://bianchi.substack.com/p/a-bard-for-a-civilization-at-dusk04 Aug 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbufbj6fs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mrq4us5wsc2k"Scientist" wasn't a word until the 1830s. Before that: natural philosophers, doing theology and metaphysics and observation as one job. The split was a bet that method could replace judgment. New essay on AI calling it in. https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/science-was-always-philosophy?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true28 Jul 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrq4us5wsc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mraj5d5lss2pA password at a river ford. A cave that opens for any mouth. A fever amulet. Your password manager. The magic word was never a metaphor, and now every one of them has an expiration date. https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/the-magic-word?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true22 Jul 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraj5d5lss2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mqowjf775s2vIn January, a seminary professor in Minneapolis prayed that God would break his neighbors' teeth. He meant the people protesting ICE. If you are not religious and you keep wondering why American Christians do things this unchristian, there is a mechanism behind it https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/law-and-order-iii-why-christians https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/law-and-order-iii-why-christians?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true15 Jul 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqowjf775s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mq53t4kopc2uA self-driving-car engineer filed with the IRS to start a church for an AI god. He's the honest one. New essay: the tech industry keeps building religions by accident—nobody reads the 5,000-year stack underneath. https://bianchi.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-religion08 Jul 2026 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq53t4kopc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mptxjk2zls2j"The only country whose deepest identity is an argument, which is why it can never win it and never quite loses it." 25 true things for America's 250th, from someone who just left it. Hypocrisy real, greatness realer. ➤ bianchi.substack.com/p/america-at-250-twenty-five-true-things https://bianchi.substack.com/p/america-at-250-twenty-five-true-things04 Jul 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptxjk2zls2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mplprjdgs22d"The danger was never that we would build machines that think. It is that we would forget we once obviously knew we were more than machines ourselves." New essay, on the SF panic over agency and taste. ➤ bianchi.substack.com/p/silicon-valleys-agency-wont-save https://bianchi.substack.com/p/silicon-valleys-agency-wont-save01 Jul 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplprjdgs22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3moxbn63a2k2n ➤ A $500 drone kills a $5M tank. The cheapest weapon is now the decisive one, and no superpower can out-produce a basement factory. That's a real military revolution, and it just flattened the balance of power. New essay: what gets built before the strongmen do. https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/political-vaporware?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true23 Jun 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxbn63a2k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mod3fazr7k2lThe AI doomer wants surveillance total enough to stop us drawing the black ball. The accelerationist founder wants pure velocity and calls every brake a form of killing. Opposite faces, same mistake: the self bolted to the center, once as fear, once as appetite. https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/ai-doesnt-know-what-its-optimizing?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true15 Jun 2026 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mod3fazr7k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mnrsi3uhk22m"He didn't call it suboptimal. He called it a sin: an injustice, a wrong with a victim, something that cries to be judged." @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev called factory farming a sin. He's right, and the word costs more than he thinks. ➤ bianchi.substack.com/p/noah-smith-is-right-about-the-pigs https://bianchi.substack.com/p/noah-smith-is-right-about-the-pigs08 Jun 2026 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrsi3uhk22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mn7vwlj6422la new UAP video drops daily. AI says things that feel alive. the feed is all slop now. so what do we do with strangeness we can't explain? christian reflex: demons. atheist reflex: BS. new piece on why that's the same mistake: https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/diagnosing-demons-drones-and-disclosure https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/diagnosing-demons-drones-and-disclosure?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true01 Jun 2026 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn7vwlj6422lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3mmrgsai4ic2kThe sky turns bruised and the mind reaches for the nearest apocalypse. seal. trumpet. bowl. scorching heat, dead seas, the mark to buy and sell. how is it not the end times? it was built to feel like this. https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/heat-ai-and-the-temptation-of-the?r=3ej7f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true26 May 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrgsai4ic2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3merh25t5ik2yI’ve been trying to name a discomfort I hear from a lot of Christians lately—those who feel alienated from both culture-war camps, but still want to think honestly about authority, borders, and moral limits. https://open.substack.com/pub/bianchi/p/law-and-order-i-why-christians-keep13 Feb 2026 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3merh25t5ik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3lxqxiryd7s2v"The prophets didn’t only warn kings. They warned civilizations." In this new essay, I take the cadences of ancient oracles and aim them at algorithmic altars, glass towers, and digital chariots. ➤ bianchi.substack.com01 Sep 2025 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxqxiryd7s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3lwyzodiizk2r6 updated theses for AI-native leaders 5 mistakes I made in 2016 4 practices you can adopt this quarter → Full piece now live on Endwise: https://bianchi.substack.com/p/ai-power-and-the-ends-of-leadership22 Aug 2025 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwyzodiizk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3lwx2x5pzq22p“The kingdom of God is like a protocol: invisible yet governing, distributed yet unified.” ✨🚀📜 They formed a decentralized network. Christ at the center. Everyone lit. A theology of distributed power, now live on Endwise:21 Aug 2025 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwx2x5pzq22phttps://bsky.app/profile/jabia.bsky.social/post/3lwuld3oskk2wJust launched: Endwise. A newsletter for philosopher‑builders: saints, skeptics, and system designers. Subscribe now. bianchi.substack.com http://bianchi.substack.com20 Aug 2025 23:27 +0000at://did:plc:emeqjsg37tkanilvthfcqh2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwuld3oskk2w