<h2>A low-birth society has to choose who, or what, will carry the load.</h2> The last post was about the sign taped to the door: <b>Closed early due to staffing shortage.</b> This one is about what comes after the sign. Because a society can run short on workers for only so…

Entropy gets a bad reputation. We hear the word and think of collapse. Disorder. Rust. Heat death. The slow failure of every machine, every body, every system, every promise. And sure, that is part of it. Leave a house alone long enough and the roof will sag. Leave a road…

Civilization is not a marble temple. It is a stack of temporary fixes that accidentally became permanent. Somewhere, right now, a billion-dollar process depends on a spreadsheet named FINAL_FINAL_v7.xlsx, a server nobody wants to reboot, a password only one person remembers, and…