The real story isn’t QAnon.
It’s how inquiry ends when truth becomes too expensive.

A new framework for understanding “termination propaganda”.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/polaris-project-on-qanon-attribution

“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.martingeddes.com/p/q4881-anatomy-of-an-information-munition

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.

https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/wikipedias-synthetic-villains-and

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.martingeddes.com/p/accounting-without-attribution-a

⚖️ 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.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/high-court-permission-hearing-in

I had a mental health afternoon out doing photos in Whitby today.

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.martingeddes.com/p/q-as-trading-space-not-truth-space

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.martingeddes.com/p/why-il-donaldo-trumpo-exists

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.martingeddes.com/p/introducing-a-new-science-of-attributability

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.martingeddes.com/p/why-q-really-did-have-to-be-this

Hamsterley Forest today.

📜 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.martingeddes.com/p/the-new-normal-of-untraceable-power

⚖️ 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.martingeddes.com/p/assumed-lawful-never-proved

📜 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.martingeddes.com/p/the-order-that-refused-to-answer

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.martingeddes.com/p/twitterx-five-eras-one-structural

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 👇
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-quagmire-of-authority

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.martingeddes.com/p/the-moment-safety-must-step-back

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.martingeddes.com/p/when-tools-moralise

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
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-machine-is-a-normie

A photo essay on one of the UK's oldest high-rise housing developments. https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/moss-heights-physical-comfort-spiritual

🎧 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.martingeddes.com/p/designer-hospitality-in-a-post-human

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:
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/ghost-courts-are-downstream-of-ghost

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.martingeddes.com/p/ghost-lawyers-mazur-and-ghost-courts

Where does judicial power actually come from in high-volume court systems? A short, neutral briefing on statutory attribution and the Single Justice Procedure.
👉 https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/where-does-judicial-power-come-from

A walk up Blake Fell in the Lake District a few days ago.

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.
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/369581-for-asking-which-court

"Aglow" — light festival in Bishop Auckland.

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.

🧵👇
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/high-court-refusal-reveals-an-ambient

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.martingeddes.com/p/who-warrants-the-warrant-a-meta-entick

Courts increasingly behave like oracle machines: authoritative answers, no working shown.
What computer science reveals about the limits of law ⬇️
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/oracle-machines-and-the-limits-of