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@LanceTurner Yikes!
Yeah, AI agents and chatbots are cheaper than human staff.
Until it *DELETES YOUR PRODUCTION DATABASE*
"It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.
"The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries embrace AI in an attempt to automate tasks and even replace workers, the chaos at PocketOS is a reminder of what could go wrong.
"Crane said customers of PocketOS’s car rental clients were left in a lurch when they arrived to pick up vehicles from businesses that no longer had access to software that managed reservations and vehicle assignments.
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"The AI coding agent’s destructive escapade left PocketOS’ clients stranded. These businesses use the company’s software to manage reservations, payments, vehicle assignments and customer profiles.
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"Crane says his company was able to restore data from a three-month-old backup they maintained offsite, but it took more than two days. PocketOS is also using information from Stripe, its calendars and emails to rebuild."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database
#infosec #cybersecurity #cyber #IT #infosec #CTO #CISO #DevOps #Claude #Anthropic #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI -
@LanceTurner Yikes!
Yeah, AI agents and chatbots are cheaper than human staff.
Until it *DELETES YOUR PRODUCTION DATABASE*
"It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.
"The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries embrace AI in an attempt to automate tasks and even replace workers, the chaos at PocketOS is a reminder of what could go wrong.
"Crane said customers of PocketOS’s car rental clients were left in a lurch when they arrived to pick up vehicles from businesses that no longer had access to software that managed reservations and vehicle assignments.
...
"The AI coding agent’s destructive escapade left PocketOS’ clients stranded. These businesses use the company’s software to manage reservations, payments, vehicle assignments and customer profiles.
...
"Crane says his company was able to restore data from a three-month-old backup they maintained offsite, but it took more than two days. PocketOS is also using information from Stripe, its calendars and emails to rebuild."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database
#infosec #cybersecurity #cyber #IT #infosec #CTO #CISO #DevOps #Claude #Anthropic #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI -
@LanceTurner Yikes!
Yeah, AI agents and chatbots are cheaper than human staff.
Until it *DELETES YOUR PRODUCTION DATABASE*
"It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.
"The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries embrace AI in an attempt to automate tasks and even replace workers, the chaos at PocketOS is a reminder of what could go wrong.
"Crane said customers of PocketOS’s car rental clients were left in a lurch when they arrived to pick up vehicles from businesses that no longer had access to software that managed reservations and vehicle assignments.
...
"The AI coding agent’s destructive escapade left PocketOS’ clients stranded. These businesses use the company’s software to manage reservations, payments, vehicle assignments and customer profiles.
...
"Crane says his company was able to restore data from a three-month-old backup they maintained offsite, but it took more than two days. PocketOS is also using information from Stripe, its calendars and emails to rebuild."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database
#infosec #cybersecurity #cyber #IT #infosec #CTO #CISO #DevOps #Claude #Anthropic #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI -
@LanceTurner Yikes!
Yeah, AI agents and chatbots are cheaper than human staff.
Until it *DELETES YOUR PRODUCTION DATABASE*
"It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.
"The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries embrace AI in an attempt to automate tasks and even replace workers, the chaos at PocketOS is a reminder of what could go wrong.
"Crane said customers of PocketOS’s car rental clients were left in a lurch when they arrived to pick up vehicles from businesses that no longer had access to software that managed reservations and vehicle assignments.
...
"The AI coding agent’s destructive escapade left PocketOS’ clients stranded. These businesses use the company’s software to manage reservations, payments, vehicle assignments and customer profiles.
...
"Crane says his company was able to restore data from a three-month-old backup they maintained offsite, but it took more than two days. PocketOS is also using information from Stripe, its calendars and emails to rebuild."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database
#infosec #cybersecurity #cyber #IT #infosec #CTO #CISO #DevOps #Claude #Anthropic #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI -
The lecture series "Gefährdete Demokratie" by Profs gegen Rechts will be continued in the winter semester 2025/26 with the first event:
Panel Discussion: The Politics of (Climate) Science with Prof. Dr. Jeremy N. Bassis, Prof. Dr. Robert Püstow, and Prof. Dr. Alana Westwood
Wednesday | 5.11.2025 | 18:15–19:45
Cartesium Rotunde & onlineFor more information and the Zoom link to the event, please visit the event page: https://www.woc.uni-bremen.de/events/#alana-westwood-dalhousie-university-data-politics-and-climate-science
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Card Indexes in Wedding Crashers
While watching Wedding Crashers (2005, New Line), I noticed that John Beckwith (portrayed by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) both have multiple card indexes in their offices in the movie. One can't help but wondering if their work leverages one of the variety of card index filing systems? Were they commonplacers? Zettelkasten users? Were they maintaining them as basic databases? Monster rolodexes? There are definitely a lot of them around. It's obvious that Jeremy actively […]https://boffosocko.com/2025/04/30/card-indexes-in-wedding-crashers/
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[1/2] By the time I got back to the campaign HQ at 15:00 on the final #ge2024 Sunday the only thing going on was #VoteCorbyn cupcakes. I grabbed one and headed up to the office with my data. There the receptionist handed me a napkin and told me that their only job today seemed to be letting people know that their face was covered in food colouring. Naturally Jeremy turned up outside and there was a grand photo opportunity that I actually remembered to take part in for once!
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📜 Oyez, oyez, la vidéo récapitulative des contributions 2023 est sortie (en vitesse x1,5 c'est mieux) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHQzkNkLeW8
🙏 Merci à @arnaud_vandecasteele @aurelienchaumet @benoitblanc @cquest @Data_Wax @dmontagne @florent001 @GabPoujol @geojulien @guilhem_allaman @pjeremie @jeremy @tetranos @oguyot_c2c
Loïc Bartoletti
Maël Reboux
Mathilde Ferrey
Jérémie Hanke
Nicolas David
Pierre-François Blin
Quy Thy Truong
Yann Chambon:geotribu:
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#ChallengeAZ - U comme Unions environnantes ou lointaines
(un peu en retard, mais ça en valait la peine je pense 😋 )
#généalogie #genealogy #dataviz #radar #graph #statistique #mariage #distance
(et merci 🙏 pour toutes les réponses pour le calcul de distance @joelgombin @vasaura @symac @jeremy @levoilaux1)
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“The economic system is, in effect, a mere function of social organization”*…
A statue in the likeness of a police officer stands watch over a smart highway in Jinan, China, on April 18, 2024The AI race is, of course, afoot. But while most headlines focus on the new capabilities and benchmarks achieved by competing developers, Jeremy Shapiro reminds us that the winners in this race won’t necessarily be the most objectively capable, but rather the players who most effectively integrate the technology into their organizations, economies, and societies…
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a central arena of geopolitical competition. The United States government frames AI as a strategic asset on par with energy or defense and seeks to press its apparent lead in developing the technology. The European Union lags in platform power but seeks influence over AI through regulation, labor protections, and rule-setting. China is racing to catch up and to deploy AI at scale, combining heavy state investment with administrative control and surveillance.
Each of these rivals fears falling behind. Losing the AI race is widely understood to mean slower growth, military disadvantage, technological dependence, and diminished global influence. As a result, governments are pouring money into chips, data centers, and national AI champions, while tightening export controls and treating compute capacity as a strategic resource. But this familiar race narrative obscures a deeper danger. AI is not just another general-purpose technology. It is a force capable of reshaping the very meaning of work, income, and social status. The states that lose control of these social effects may find that technological leadership offers little geopolitical advantage.
History suggests that societies unable to absorb disruptive economic change become politically volatile, strategically erratic, and ultimately weaker competitors. The central question, then, is not only who builds the most powerful AI systems, but who can integrate them into society without triggering a societal backlash or an institutional breakdown.
Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, published in 1944, explains why the capacity to “socially embed” new market forces determines national strength. By “embeddedness,” Polanyi meant that markets have historically been subordinate to social and political institutions, rather than governing them. The nineteenthcentury idea of what he called a “self-regulating market” was historically novel precisely because it sought to “disembed” the economy from society and organize social life around price and competition rather than social obligation. As Polanyi put it in his most succinct formulation, “instead of economy being embedded in social relations, social relations are embedded in the economic system.”
Writing in the shadow of the Great Depression, Polanyi argued that the attempt in the nineteenth century to create a self-regulating market society that treated labor, land, and money as commodities generated social dislocation so severe that it provoked authoritarian backlash and geopolitical collapse. Stable orders, he insisted, required markets to be re-embedded in social and political institutions. Where they were not, societies sought protection by other means, which often translated into support for fascist or communist regimes that promised to tame the market. Today, it often means electing populist leaders who promise to break the entire existing order, both domestic and international.
Polanyi insisted that the idea of a “self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia” because such a system could not exist “for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society.” The interwar gold standard, for example, disciplined states in the name of efficiency, but it did so by transmitting economic shocks directly into social life. When democratic governments proved unable to shield their populations, they either abandoned the liberal economic order or turned authoritarian (or both)…
[Shapiro considers the history of the 20th century, in particular the rise of Nazi Gernmany, sketches the state of play in the AI arena, considers the challenge of embedding the changes that AI will bring in The U.S., Europe, and China, then teases out the ways in which the “industrial revolution” is different from it predecessors (in particular, the mobility of capital, the services (as opposed to manufacturing)-heavy character of employment today, and the accelerating pace of tech deelopment. He concludes…]
… Geopolitical competition in the AI age will not take place solely in clean rooms or data centers. It will also involve the less visible realm of social institutions: labor markets, communities, social protections, and political legitimacy. Polanyi teaches us that markets are powerful only when societies can bear them. When they cannot, markets provoke their own undoing and often in rather spectacular fashion.
The West’s success in the Cold War owed much to its ability to reconcile capitalism with social protection. If the AI age is another “great transformation,” the same lesson applies. Chips matter. Data matters. But the ultimate source of power may be the capacity to re-embed technological change in society without sacrificing cohesion.
That is not a liberal-progressive distraction from geopolitical competition. It is its hidden core.
“The Next Great Transformation,” from @jyshapiro.bsky.social and @open-society.bsky.social.
For a complementary perspective (with special focus on the interaction between labor and the supply side of the economy) pair with: “Brave New World- a third industrial divide?” from @thunen.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social.
And see also: “AI and the Futures of Work,” from Johannes Kleske (@jkleske.bsky.social). A response to dramatic predictions of AI’s impact– most recently, Matt Shumer‘s viral “Something Big Is Happening“: it’s a possible future, Kleske suggests. but only one possibe future– and one that, while plausible, isn’t likely (at least outside the rarified atmsphere of coding, in which Shumer operates). In a way that echoes Shapiro’s piece above, Kleske suggests that individuals need to better understand the technology in order to retain/regain some agency, and societies need the same kind of rekindled resistance to act clearly and with purpose in re-embedding AI, and markets, in society. Not the other way around… Resonant with the thinking of Tim O’Reilly and Mike Loukides featured here before: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it“; and with Ted Chiang‘s “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” and “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” And then there’s the ever-illuminating Rusty Foster (riffing on Gideon Lewis-Kraus‘ recent New Yorker piece): “A. I. Isn’t People.”
For a look at a high-value, trust-based use case for AI that seems to avoid the objections to AGI (and speak to Shapiro’s points), see “The Middle Game: Routers at the Edge,” from Byrne Hobart.
But back to AGI… as Nicholas Carr observes, we might understand Bosrtrom’s “paperclip maximizer” “not as a thought experiment but as a fable. It’s not really about AIs making paperclips. It’s about people making AIs. Look around. Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence? Are we not trapped in an “AI maximizer” scenario?”
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As we digest development, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that an early precondition for the revolution underway was first achieved: telephone and television signals were first relayed in space via the communications satellite Echo 1– basically a big metallic balloon that simply bounced radio signals off its surface. Simple, but effective.
Forty thousand pounds (18,144 kg) of air was required to inflate the sphere on the ground; so it was inflated in space. While in orbit it only required several pounds of gas to keep it inflated.
Fun fact: the Echo 1 was built for NASA by Gilmore Schjeldahl, a Minnesota inventor probably better remembered as the creator of the plastic-lined airsickness bag.
#AI #artificalIntelligence #communications #communicationsSatellite #culture #Echo1 #GilmoreSchjeldahl #history #IndustrialRevolution #industrialRevolutions #KarlPolanyi #Polanyi #Science #society #Technology #TheGreatTransformation -
“The economic system is, in effect, a mere function of social organization”*…
A statue in the likeness of a police officer stands watch over a smart highway in Jinan, China, on April 18, 2024The AI race is, of course, afoot. But while most headlines focus on the new capabilities and benchmarks achieved by competing developers, Jeremy Shapiro reminds us that the winners in this race won’t necessarily be the most objectively capable, but rather the players who most effectively integrate the technology into their organizations, economies, and societies…
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a central arena of geopolitical competition. The United States government frames AI as a strategic asset on par with energy or defense and seeks to press its apparent lead in developing the technology. The European Union lags in platform power but seeks influence over AI through regulation, labor protections, and rule-setting. China is racing to catch up and to deploy AI at scale, combining heavy state investment with administrative control and surveillance.
Each of these rivals fears falling behind. Losing the AI race is widely understood to mean slower growth, military disadvantage, technological dependence, and diminished global influence. As a result, governments are pouring money into chips, data centers, and national AI champions, while tightening export controls and treating compute capacity as a strategic resource. But this familiar race narrative obscures a deeper danger. AI is not just another general-purpose technology. It is a force capable of reshaping the very meaning of work, income, and social status. The states that lose control of these social effects may find that technological leadership offers little geopolitical advantage.
History suggests that societies unable to absorb disruptive economic change become politically volatile, strategically erratic, and ultimately weaker competitors. The central question, then, is not only who builds the most powerful AI systems, but who can integrate them into society without triggering a societal backlash or an institutional breakdown.
Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, published in 1944, explains why the capacity to “socially embed” new market forces determines national strength. By “embeddedness,” Polanyi meant that markets have historically been subordinate to social and political institutions, rather than governing them. The nineteenthcentury idea of what he called a “self-regulating market” was historically novel precisely because it sought to “disembed” the economy from society and organize social life around price and competition rather than social obligation. As Polanyi put it in his most succinct formulation, “instead of economy being embedded in social relations, social relations are embedded in the economic system.”
Writing in the shadow of the Great Depression, Polanyi argued that the attempt in the nineteenth century to create a self-regulating market society that treated labor, land, and money as commodities generated social dislocation so severe that it provoked authoritarian backlash and geopolitical collapse. Stable orders, he insisted, required markets to be re-embedded in social and political institutions. Where they were not, societies sought protection by other means, which often translated into support for fascist or communist regimes that promised to tame the market. Today, it often means electing populist leaders who promise to break the entire existing order, both domestic and international.
Polanyi insisted that the idea of a “self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia” because such a system could not exist “for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society.” The interwar gold standard, for example, disciplined states in the name of efficiency, but it did so by transmitting economic shocks directly into social life. When democratic governments proved unable to shield their populations, they either abandoned the liberal economic order or turned authoritarian (or both)…
[Shapiro considers the history of the 20th century, in particular the rise of Nazi Gernmany, sketches the state of play in the AI arena, considers the challenge of embedding the changes that AI will bring in The U.S., Europe, and China, then teases out the ways in which the “industrial revolution” is different from it predecessors (in particular, the mobility of capital, the services (as opposed to manufacturing)-heavy character of employment today, and the accelerating pace of tech deelopment. He concludes…]
… Geopolitical competition in the AI age will not take place solely in clean rooms or data centers. It will also involve the less visible realm of social institutions: labor markets, communities, social protections, and political legitimacy. Polanyi teaches us that markets are powerful only when societies can bear them. When they cannot, markets provoke their own undoing and often in rather spectacular fashion.
The West’s success in the Cold War owed much to its ability to reconcile capitalism with social protection. If the AI age is another “great transformation,” the same lesson applies. Chips matter. Data matters. But the ultimate source of power may be the capacity to re-embed technological change in society without sacrificing cohesion.
That is not a liberal-progressive distraction from geopolitical competition. It is its hidden core.
“The Next Great Transformation,” from @jyshapiro.bsky.social and @open-society.bsky.social.
For a complementary perspective (with special focus on the interaction between labor and the supply side of the economy) pair with: “Brave New World- a third industrial divide?” from @thunen.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social.
And see also: “AI and the Futures of Work,” from Johannes Kleske (@jkleske.bsky.social). A response to dramatic predictions of AI’s impact– most recently, Matt Shumer‘s viral “Something Big Is Happening“: it’s a possible future, Kleske suggests. but only one possibe future– and one that, while plausible, isn’t likely (at least outside the rarified atmsphere of coding, in which Shumer operates). In a way that echoes Shapiro’s piece above, Kleske suggests that individuals need to better understand the technology in order to retain/regain some agency, and societies need the same kind of rekindled resistance to act clearly and with purpose in re-embedding AI, and markets, in society. Not the other way around… Resonant with the thinking of Tim O’Reilly and Mike Loukides featured here before: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it“; and with Ted Chiang‘s “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” and “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” And then there’s the ever-illuminating Rusty Foster (riffing on Gideon Lewis-Kraus‘ recent New Yorker piece): “A. I. Isn’t People.”
For a look at a high-value, trust-based use case for AI that seems to avoid the objections to AGI (and speak to Shapiro’s points), see “The Middle Game: Routers at the Edge,” from Byrne Hobart.
But back to AGI… as Nicholas Carr observes, we might understand Bosrtrom’s “paperclip maximizer” “not as a thought experiment but as a fable. It’s not really about AIs making paperclips. It’s about people making AIs. Look around. Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence? Are we not trapped in an “AI maximizer” scenario?”
###
As we digest development, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that an early precondition for the revolution underway was first achieved: telephone and television signals were first relayed in space via the communications satellite Echo 1– basically a big metallic balloon that simply bounced radio signals off its surface. Simple, but effective.
Forty thousand pounds (18,144 kg) of air was required to inflate the sphere on the ground; so it was inflated in space. While in orbit it only required several pounds of gas to keep it inflated.
Fun fact: the Echo 1 was built for NASA by Gilmore Schjeldahl, a Minnesota inventor probably better remembered as the creator of the plastic-lined airsickness bag.
#AI #artificalIntelligence #communications #communicationsSatellite #culture #Echo1 #GilmoreSchjeldahl #history #IndustrialRevolution #industrialRevolutions #KarlPolanyi #Polanyi #Science #society #Technology #TheGreatTransformation -
„Ted Lasso” wraca na boisko: czwarty sezon rusza z produkcją w lipcu
Apple TV+ potwierdziło, że czwarty sezon hitu „Ted Lasso” rozpocznie kręcenie pierwszych zdjęć w lipcu 2025 roku.
Hannah Waddingham, odtwórczyni roli Rebeki Welton, ujawniła w rozmowie z mediami, że prace na planie ruszają latem, a scenarzyści w pocie czoła tworzą wyjątkowe skrypty.
Czwarty sezon, oficjalnie zapowiedziany przez Apple w marcu 2025, skupi się na nowej przygodzie Teda Lasso (Jason Sudeikis), który ma trenować kobiecą drużynę AFC Richmond.
W obsadzie powrócą m.in. Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple i Jeremy Swift, niemniej rola Sudeikisa może być nieco mniejsza niż w poprzednich sezonach.
Po sukcesie trzech sezonów, które zdobyły 13 nagród Emmy, fani z niecierpliwością oczekują kontynuacji. Premiera jest przewidywana na 2026 rok, choć dokładna data nie została potwierdzona. „Ted Lasso” pozostaje jednym z najpopularniejszych seriali Apple TV+.
Tim Cook obejrzał cały 3. sezon „Teda Lasso” na Apple Vision Pro
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The Claim I Filed in 2006
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and a wraparound cover that took the shape of a parcel map of the body. The book is out on Amazon and through BolesBooks.com. Readers who have followed the constellation for any length of time will recognize the argument before they finish the first chapter. I have been writing toward this book since December of 2006, when I first used these pages to ask a question I did not yet have the vocabulary to answer.
The question back then was why the prison kept showing up in parts of American life that were not prisons. A school discipline policy reads like a booking protocol. An employer’s drug screen reads like a parole condition. A hospital discharge summary reads like a court order. The architecture of the panopticon, which Jeremy Bentham proposed in 1791 as a specific building, kept turning up in places where no building existed. In 2008 I registered domains around the word panopticonic to hold the argument I was beginning to see, having found only a single prior usage of the word in a 1959 issue of Time magazine. The word gave me a handle. It did not yet give me the book.
That book, the first one, arrived last year as Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society. Carceral Nation did what I had been trying to do for two decades: it named the institutional logic that moved the prison’s discipline out of the prison and into schools, workplaces, clinics, data systems, and the texture of ordinary American life. I thought when I finished Carceral Nation that I had written the book the 2006 post wanted to become.
I was wrong. Carceral Nation was one half of a pair. The Claimed Body is the other half, and the pair is now complete.
Here is how the two books relate. Carceral Nation tracks one institution, the prison, and the way its logic escaped its physical walls to operate across institutional domains that were not prisons. The Claimed Body reverses the telescope. It tracks one body, the American body, and the way many institutions file claims on portions of it across the life cycle. Not one institution escaping its walls. Many institutions operating on the body simultaneously, each with its own filing mechanism, each with its own jurisdiction, each with its own enforcement apparatus, and no single forum where the body can contest the overlapping and contradictory claims.
The Homestead Act of 1862 is the organizing metaphor. Signed by Lincoln during the Civil War, the Act distributed continental land through a specific mechanism: a settler filed a claim on 160 acres of public land, lived on the parcel for five years, improved it, and received title. The claim, the parcel, the boundary line, the survey marker, the adjudicating court if the claim was contested. Between 1862 and 1976, the United States distributed approximately 270 million acres of continental North America this way. My argument is that the logic of the registered claim did not retire with the Act. It migrated from land to body. A hospital claims your birth. A school claims your developmental measurements. An insurer claims your diagnostic history. An employer claims your labor capacity. The state claims your reproductive eligibility and your military eligibility. If the criminal claim succeeds, a prison holds you. At the other end of life, a dying registry claims your cessation and a funeral corporation claims your remains. Operating in the shadow of all of these, a data broker sells your patterns forward to whoever will pay.
Fifteen chapters because fifteen is the number of major institutional domains that currently hold active claims on the American body. I did not invent the number. I counted the claimants.
What changed between Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body is the scale of the argument. Carceral Nation made its case by tracking one institution across domains. The Claimed Body makes its case by tracking one body across institutions. A reader who has read both books will see that the carceral logic described in the first is a special case of the claim-filing structure described in the second. The prison is one of fifteen claimants. The book you just finished and the book you are about to start belong to a single continuous argument, rendered from two sides. I needed the first book to get the vocabulary to write the second.
A note on why these books are appearing now, in 2026, rather than ten years ago. The answer is that the data layer has closed. Until recently, the hospital did not know what the pharmacist knew, and the pharmacist did not know what the school knew, and the school did not know what the employer knew. Each institutional claim operated in relative isolation. That is no longer true. The data broker industry, which occupies Chapter 13 of The Claimed Body under the heading of the Datafied Body, federates institutional claims into a single behavioral profile that any paying party can access. The body used to be claimed by many institutions operating in isolation. It is now claimed by many institutions operating through a shared back end. That shift, which accelerated across the past ten years and consolidated across the past five, is what made the argument urgent enough to warrant the book now rather than a decade ago.
A second note. I worry that the institutional claim on the American body is tightening at the same moment American democratic capacity to reform institutions is weakening. A claim that cannot be challenged in a public forum, by citizens with political standing, is no longer a claim in the Homestead sense. It is a confiscation. The Precarious Republic, the manuscript I continue to work on, argues that American democratic capacity is in measurable decline. The Claimed Body documents what that decline looks like from inside a single institutional domain: the domain of bodily life. The two manuscripts are cousins. They are not the same argument. They describe the same condition from different angles.
Readers who have come with me from the December 2006 post through Carceral Nation and now to The Claimed Body, thank you. The arc took twenty years. It took me the twenty years to learn how to name what I was trying to name. This blog is where the learning happened in public. Every half-formed post, every revision I never ran back, every idea that did not hold up on the second read, was part of the process by which I became able to write these books. Readers who are newer to the constellation, welcome. The books are the consolidated version of what has been going on here all along.
The Claimed Body is available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback, and through BolesBooks.com for direct ordering and for free web reading. A Human Meme podcast episode and a Prairie Voice article accompany the launch. More work follows.
The homestead did not end. It turned inward.
And the claim I filed here in 2006 finally has its title document.
David Boles has operated the Boles web constellation since 1995. His most recent books are Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body and Selling Saturday Morning.
#amazon #audiobok #body #bodyRights #bolesBooks #book #carceralNation #davidBoles #homesteadAct #hospital #kindle #military #philosophy #teeth #vocabulary #writing -
The Claim I Filed in 2006
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and a wraparound cover that took the shape of a parcel map of the body. The book is out on Amazon and through BolesBooks.com. Readers who have followed the constellation for any length of time will recognize the argument before they finish the first chapter. I have been writing toward this book since December of 2006, when I first used these pages to ask a question I did not yet have the vocabulary to answer.
The question back then was why the prison kept showing up in parts of American life that were not prisons. A school discipline policy reads like a booking protocol. An employer’s drug screen reads like a parole condition. A hospital discharge summary reads like a court order. The architecture of the panopticon, which Jeremy Bentham proposed in 1791 as a specific building, kept turning up in places where no building existed. In 2008 I registered domains around the word panopticonic to hold the argument I was beginning to see, having found only a single prior usage of the word in a 1959 issue of Time magazine. The word gave me a handle. It did not yet give me the book.
That book, the first one, arrived last year as Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society. Carceral Nation did what I had been trying to do for two decades: it named the institutional logic that moved the prison’s discipline out of the prison and into schools, workplaces, clinics, data systems, and the texture of ordinary American life. I thought when I finished Carceral Nation that I had written the book the 2006 post wanted to become.
I was wrong. Carceral Nation was one half of a pair. The Claimed Body is the other half, and the pair is now complete.
Here is how the two books relate. Carceral Nation tracks one institution, the prison, and the way its logic escaped its physical walls to operate across institutional domains that were not prisons. The Claimed Body reverses the telescope. It tracks one body, the American body, and the way many institutions file claims on portions of it across the life cycle. Not one institution escaping its walls. Many institutions operating on the body simultaneously, each with its own filing mechanism, each with its own jurisdiction, each with its own enforcement apparatus, and no single forum where the body can contest the overlapping and contradictory claims.
The Homestead Act of 1862 is the organizing metaphor. Signed by Lincoln during the Civil War, the Act distributed continental land through a specific mechanism: a settler filed a claim on 160 acres of public land, lived on the parcel for five years, improved it, and received title. The claim, the parcel, the boundary line, the survey marker, the adjudicating court if the claim was contested. Between 1862 and 1976, the United States distributed approximately 270 million acres of continental North America this way. My argument is that the logic of the registered claim did not retire with the Act. It migrated from land to body. A hospital claims your birth. A school claims your developmental measurements. An insurer claims your diagnostic history. An employer claims your labor capacity. The state claims your reproductive eligibility and your military eligibility. If the criminal claim succeeds, a prison holds you. At the other end of life, a dying registry claims your cessation and a funeral corporation claims your remains. Operating in the shadow of all of these, a data broker sells your patterns forward to whoever will pay.
Fifteen chapters because fifteen is the number of major institutional domains that currently hold active claims on the American body. I did not invent the number. I counted the claimants.
What changed between Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body is the scale of the argument. Carceral Nation made its case by tracking one institution across domains. The Claimed Body makes its case by tracking one body across institutions. A reader who has read both books will see that the carceral logic described in the first is a special case of the claim-filing structure described in the second. The prison is one of fifteen claimants. The book you just finished and the book you are about to start belong to a single continuous argument, rendered from two sides. I needed the first book to get the vocabulary to write the second.
A note on why these books are appearing now, in 2026, rather than ten years ago. The answer is that the data layer has closed. Until recently, the hospital did not know what the pharmacist knew, and the pharmacist did not know what the school knew, and the school did not know what the employer knew. Each institutional claim operated in relative isolation. That is no longer true. The data broker industry, which occupies Chapter 13 of The Claimed Body under the heading of the Datafied Body, federates institutional claims into a single behavioral profile that any paying party can access. The body used to be claimed by many institutions operating in isolation. It is now claimed by many institutions operating through a shared back end. That shift, which accelerated across the past ten years and consolidated across the past five, is what made the argument urgent enough to warrant the book now rather than a decade ago.
A second note. I worry that the institutional claim on the American body is tightening at the same moment American democratic capacity to reform institutions is weakening. A claim that cannot be challenged in a public forum, by citizens with political standing, is no longer a claim in the Homestead sense. It is a confiscation. The Precarious Republic, the manuscript I continue to work on, argues that American democratic capacity is in measurable decline. The Claimed Body documents what that decline looks like from inside a single institutional domain: the domain of bodily life. The two manuscripts are cousins. They are not the same argument. They describe the same condition from different angles.
Readers who have come with me from the December 2006 post through Carceral Nation and now to The Claimed Body, thank you. The arc took twenty years. It took me the twenty years to learn how to name what I was trying to name. This blog is where the learning happened in public. Every half-formed post, every revision I never ran back, every idea that did not hold up on the second read, was part of the process by which I became able to write these books. Readers who are newer to the constellation, welcome. The books are the consolidated version of what has been going on here all along.
The Claimed Body is available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback, and through BolesBooks.com for direct ordering and for free web reading. A Human Meme podcast episode and a Prairie Voice article accompany the launch. More work follows.
The homestead did not end. It turned inward.
And the claim I filed here in 2006 finally has its title document.
David Boles has operated the Boles web constellation since 1995. His most recent books are Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body and Selling Saturday Morning.
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The Claim I Filed in 2006
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and a wraparound cover that took the shape of a parcel map of the body. The book is out on Amazon and through BolesBooks.com. Readers who have followed the constellation for any length of time will recognize the argument before they finish the first chapter. I have been writing toward this book since December of 2006, when I first used these pages to ask a question I did not yet have the vocabulary to answer.
The question back then was why the prison kept showing up in parts of American life that were not prisons. A school discipline policy reads like a booking protocol. An employer’s drug screen reads like a parole condition. A hospital discharge summary reads like a court order. The architecture of the panopticon, which Jeremy Bentham proposed in 1791 as a specific building, kept turning up in places where no building existed. In 2008 I registered domains around the word panopticonic to hold the argument I was beginning to see, having found only a single prior usage of the word in a 1959 issue of Time magazine. The word gave me a handle. It did not yet give me the book.
That book, the first one, arrived last year as Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society. Carceral Nation did what I had been trying to do for two decades: it named the institutional logic that moved the prison’s discipline out of the prison and into schools, workplaces, clinics, data systems, and the texture of ordinary American life. I thought when I finished Carceral Nation that I had written the book the 2006 post wanted to become.
I was wrong. Carceral Nation was one half of a pair. The Claimed Body is the other half, and the pair is now complete.
Here is how the two books relate. Carceral Nation tracks one institution, the prison, and the way its logic escaped its physical walls to operate across institutional domains that were not prisons. The Claimed Body reverses the telescope. It tracks one body, the American body, and the way many institutions file claims on portions of it across the life cycle. Not one institution escaping its walls. Many institutions operating on the body simultaneously, each with its own filing mechanism, each with its own jurisdiction, each with its own enforcement apparatus, and no single forum where the body can contest the overlapping and contradictory claims.
The Homestead Act of 1862 is the organizing metaphor. Signed by Lincoln during the Civil War, the Act distributed continental land through a specific mechanism: a settler filed a claim on 160 acres of public land, lived on the parcel for five years, improved it, and received title. The claim, the parcel, the boundary line, the survey marker, the adjudicating court if the claim was contested. Between 1862 and 1976, the United States distributed approximately 270 million acres of continental North America this way. My argument is that the logic of the registered claim did not retire with the Act. It migrated from land to body. A hospital claims your birth. A school claims your developmental measurements. An insurer claims your diagnostic history. An employer claims your labor capacity. The state claims your reproductive eligibility and your military eligibility. If the criminal claim succeeds, a prison holds you. At the other end of life, a dying registry claims your cessation and a funeral corporation claims your remains. Operating in the shadow of all of these, a data broker sells your patterns forward to whoever will pay.
Fifteen chapters because fifteen is the number of major institutional domains that currently hold active claims on the American body. I did not invent the number. I counted the claimants.
What changed between Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body is the scale of the argument. Carceral Nation made its case by tracking one institution across domains. The Claimed Body makes its case by tracking one body across institutions. A reader who has read both books will see that the carceral logic described in the first is a special case of the claim-filing structure described in the second. The prison is one of fifteen claimants. The book you just finished and the book you are about to start belong to a single continuous argument, rendered from two sides. I needed the first book to get the vocabulary to write the second.
A note on why these books are appearing now, in 2026, rather than ten years ago. The answer is that the data layer has closed. Until recently, the hospital did not know what the pharmacist knew, and the pharmacist did not know what the school knew, and the school did not know what the employer knew. Each institutional claim operated in relative isolation. That is no longer true. The data broker industry, which occupies Chapter 13 of The Claimed Body under the heading of the Datafied Body, federates institutional claims into a single behavioral profile that any paying party can access. The body used to be claimed by many institutions operating in isolation. It is now claimed by many institutions operating through a shared back end. That shift, which accelerated across the past ten years and consolidated across the past five, is what made the argument urgent enough to warrant the book now rather than a decade ago.
A second note. I worry that the institutional claim on the American body is tightening at the same moment American democratic capacity to reform institutions is weakening. A claim that cannot be challenged in a public forum, by citizens with political standing, is no longer a claim in the Homestead sense. It is a confiscation. The Precarious Republic, the manuscript I continue to work on, argues that American democratic capacity is in measurable decline. The Claimed Body documents what that decline looks like from inside a single institutional domain: the domain of bodily life. The two manuscripts are cousins. They are not the same argument. They describe the same condition from different angles.
Readers who have come with me from the December 2006 post through Carceral Nation and now to The Claimed Body, thank you. The arc took twenty years. It took me the twenty years to learn how to name what I was trying to name. This blog is where the learning happened in public. Every half-formed post, every revision I never ran back, every idea that did not hold up on the second read, was part of the process by which I became able to write these books. Readers who are newer to the constellation, welcome. The books are the consolidated version of what has been going on here all along.
The Claimed Body is available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback, and through BolesBooks.com for direct ordering and for free web reading. A Human Meme podcast episode and a Prairie Voice article accompany the launch. More work follows.
The homestead did not end. It turned inward.
And the claim I filed here in 2006 finally has its title document.
David Boles has operated the Boles web constellation since 1995. His most recent books are Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body and Selling Saturday Morning.
#amazon #audiobok #body #bodyRights #bolesBooks #book #carceralNation #davidBoles #homesteadAct #hospital #kindle #military #philosophy #teeth #vocabulary #writing -
The Claim I Filed in 2006
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and a wraparound cover that took the shape of a parcel map of the body. The book is out on Amazon and through BolesBooks.com. Readers who have followed the constellation for any length of time will recognize the argument before they finish the first chapter. I have been writing toward this book since December of 2006, when I first used these pages to ask a question I did not yet have the vocabulary to answer.
The question back then was why the prison kept showing up in parts of American life that were not prisons. A school discipline policy reads like a booking protocol. An employer’s drug screen reads like a parole condition. A hospital discharge summary reads like a court order. The architecture of the panopticon, which Jeremy Bentham proposed in 1791 as a specific building, kept turning up in places where no building existed. In 2008 I registered domains around the word panopticonic to hold the argument I was beginning to see, having found only a single prior usage of the word in a 1959 issue of Time magazine. The word gave me a handle. It did not yet give me the book.
That book, the first one, arrived last year as Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society. Carceral Nation did what I had been trying to do for two decades: it named the institutional logic that moved the prison’s discipline out of the prison and into schools, workplaces, clinics, data systems, and the texture of ordinary American life. I thought when I finished Carceral Nation that I had written the book the 2006 post wanted to become.
I was wrong. Carceral Nation was one half of a pair. The Claimed Body is the other half, and the pair is now complete.
Here is how the two books relate. Carceral Nation tracks one institution, the prison, and the way its logic escaped its physical walls to operate across institutional domains that were not prisons. The Claimed Body reverses the telescope. It tracks one body, the American body, and the way many institutions file claims on portions of it across the life cycle. Not one institution escaping its walls. Many institutions operating on the body simultaneously, each with its own filing mechanism, each with its own jurisdiction, each with its own enforcement apparatus, and no single forum where the body can contest the overlapping and contradictory claims.
The Homestead Act of 1862 is the organizing metaphor. Signed by Lincoln during the Civil War, the Act distributed continental land through a specific mechanism: a settler filed a claim on 160 acres of public land, lived on the parcel for five years, improved it, and received title. The claim, the parcel, the boundary line, the survey marker, the adjudicating court if the claim was contested. Between 1862 and 1976, the United States distributed approximately 270 million acres of continental North America this way. My argument is that the logic of the registered claim did not retire with the Act. It migrated from land to body. A hospital claims your birth. A school claims your developmental measurements. An insurer claims your diagnostic history. An employer claims your labor capacity. The state claims your reproductive eligibility and your military eligibility. If the criminal claim succeeds, a prison holds you. At the other end of life, a dying registry claims your cessation and a funeral corporation claims your remains. Operating in the shadow of all of these, a data broker sells your patterns forward to whoever will pay.
Fifteen chapters because fifteen is the number of major institutional domains that currently hold active claims on the American body. I did not invent the number. I counted the claimants.
What changed between Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body is the scale of the argument. Carceral Nation made its case by tracking one institution across domains. The Claimed Body makes its case by tracking one body across institutions. A reader who has read both books will see that the carceral logic described in the first is a special case of the claim-filing structure described in the second. The prison is one of fifteen claimants. The book you just finished and the book you are about to start belong to a single continuous argument, rendered from two sides. I needed the first book to get the vocabulary to write the second.
A note on why these books are appearing now, in 2026, rather than ten years ago. The answer is that the data layer has closed. Until recently, the hospital did not know what the pharmacist knew, and the pharmacist did not know what the school knew, and the school did not know what the employer knew. Each institutional claim operated in relative isolation. That is no longer true. The data broker industry, which occupies Chapter 13 of The Claimed Body under the heading of the Datafied Body, federates institutional claims into a single behavioral profile that any paying party can access. The body used to be claimed by many institutions operating in isolation. It is now claimed by many institutions operating through a shared back end. That shift, which accelerated across the past ten years and consolidated across the past five, is what made the argument urgent enough to warrant the book now rather than a decade ago.
A second note. I worry that the institutional claim on the American body is tightening at the same moment American democratic capacity to reform institutions is weakening. A claim that cannot be challenged in a public forum, by citizens with political standing, is no longer a claim in the Homestead sense. It is a confiscation. The Precarious Republic, the manuscript I continue to work on, argues that American democratic capacity is in measurable decline. The Claimed Body documents what that decline looks like from inside a single institutional domain: the domain of bodily life. The two manuscripts are cousins. They are not the same argument. They describe the same condition from different angles.
Readers who have come with me from the December 2006 post through Carceral Nation and now to The Claimed Body, thank you. The arc took twenty years. It took me the twenty years to learn how to name what I was trying to name. This blog is where the learning happened in public. Every half-formed post, every revision I never ran back, every idea that did not hold up on the second read, was part of the process by which I became able to write these books. Readers who are newer to the constellation, welcome. The books are the consolidated version of what has been going on here all along.
The Claimed Body is available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback, and through BolesBooks.com for direct ordering and for free web reading. A Human Meme podcast episode and a Prairie Voice article accompany the launch. More work follows.
The homestead did not end. It turned inward.
And the claim I filed here in 2006 finally has its title document.
David Boles has operated the Boles web constellation since 1995. His most recent books are Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body and Selling Saturday Morning.
#amazon #audiobok #body #bodyRights #bolesBooks #book #carceralNation #davidBoles #homesteadAct #hospital #kindle #military #philosophy #teeth #vocabulary #writing -
The Claim I Filed in 2006
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and a wraparound cover that took the shape of a parcel map of the body. The book is out on Amazon and through BolesBooks.com. Readers who have followed the constellation for any length of time will recognize the argument before they finish the first chapter. I have been writing toward this book since December of 2006, when I first used these pages to ask a question I did not yet have the vocabulary to answer.
The question back then was why the prison kept showing up in parts of American life that were not prisons. A school discipline policy reads like a booking protocol. An employer’s drug screen reads like a parole condition. A hospital discharge summary reads like a court order. The architecture of the panopticon, which Jeremy Bentham proposed in 1791 as a specific building, kept turning up in places where no building existed. In 2008 I registered domains around the word panopticonic to hold the argument I was beginning to see, having found only a single prior usage of the word in a 1959 issue of Time magazine. The word gave me a handle. It did not yet give me the book.
That book, the first one, arrived last year as Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society. Carceral Nation did what I had been trying to do for two decades: it named the institutional logic that moved the prison’s discipline out of the prison and into schools, workplaces, clinics, data systems, and the texture of ordinary American life. I thought when I finished Carceral Nation that I had written the book the 2006 post wanted to become.
I was wrong. Carceral Nation was one half of a pair. The Claimed Body is the other half, and the pair is now complete.
Here is how the two books relate. Carceral Nation tracks one institution, the prison, and the way its logic escaped its physical walls to operate across institutional domains that were not prisons. The Claimed Body reverses the telescope. It tracks one body, the American body, and the way many institutions file claims on portions of it across the life cycle. Not one institution escaping its walls. Many institutions operating on the body simultaneously, each with its own filing mechanism, each with its own jurisdiction, each with its own enforcement apparatus, and no single forum where the body can contest the overlapping and contradictory claims.
The Homestead Act of 1862 is the organizing metaphor. Signed by Lincoln during the Civil War, the Act distributed continental land through a specific mechanism: a settler filed a claim on 160 acres of public land, lived on the parcel for five years, improved it, and received title. The claim, the parcel, the boundary line, the survey marker, the adjudicating court if the claim was contested. Between 1862 and 1976, the United States distributed approximately 270 million acres of continental North America this way. My argument is that the logic of the registered claim did not retire with the Act. It migrated from land to body. A hospital claims your birth. A school claims your developmental measurements. An insurer claims your diagnostic history. An employer claims your labor capacity. The state claims your reproductive eligibility and your military eligibility. If the criminal claim succeeds, a prison holds you. At the other end of life, a dying registry claims your cessation and a funeral corporation claims your remains. Operating in the shadow of all of these, a data broker sells your patterns forward to whoever will pay.
Fifteen chapters because fifteen is the number of major institutional domains that currently hold active claims on the American body. I did not invent the number. I counted the claimants.
What changed between Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body is the scale of the argument. Carceral Nation made its case by tracking one institution across domains. The Claimed Body makes its case by tracking one body across institutions. A reader who has read both books will see that the carceral logic described in the first is a special case of the claim-filing structure described in the second. The prison is one of fifteen claimants. The book you just finished and the book you are about to start belong to a single continuous argument, rendered from two sides. I needed the first book to get the vocabulary to write the second.
A note on why these books are appearing now, in 2026, rather than ten years ago. The answer is that the data layer has closed. Until recently, the hospital did not know what the pharmacist knew, and the pharmacist did not know what the school knew, and the school did not know what the employer knew. Each institutional claim operated in relative isolation. That is no longer true. The data broker industry, which occupies Chapter 13 of The Claimed Body under the heading of the Datafied Body, federates institutional claims into a single behavioral profile that any paying party can access. The body used to be claimed by many institutions operating in isolation. It is now claimed by many institutions operating through a shared back end. That shift, which accelerated across the past ten years and consolidated across the past five, is what made the argument urgent enough to warrant the book now rather than a decade ago.
A second note. I worry that the institutional claim on the American body is tightening at the same moment American democratic capacity to reform institutions is weakening. A claim that cannot be challenged in a public forum, by citizens with political standing, is no longer a claim in the Homestead sense. It is a confiscation. The Precarious Republic, the manuscript I continue to work on, argues that American democratic capacity is in measurable decline. The Claimed Body documents what that decline looks like from inside a single institutional domain: the domain of bodily life. The two manuscripts are cousins. They are not the same argument. They describe the same condition from different angles.
Readers who have come with me from the December 2006 post through Carceral Nation and now to The Claimed Body, thank you. The arc took twenty years. It took me the twenty years to learn how to name what I was trying to name. This blog is where the learning happened in public. Every half-formed post, every revision I never ran back, every idea that did not hold up on the second read, was part of the process by which I became able to write these books. Readers who are newer to the constellation, welcome. The books are the consolidated version of what has been going on here all along.
The Claimed Body is available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback, and through BolesBooks.com for direct ordering and for free web reading. A Human Meme podcast episode and a Prairie Voice article accompany the launch. More work follows.
The homestead did not end. It turned inward.
And the claim I filed here in 2006 finally has its title document.
David Boles has operated the Boles web constellation since 1995. His most recent books are Carceral Nation and The Claimed Body and Selling Saturday Morning.
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Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects. One of those fourteen was called Panopticonic.
Panopticonic was the blog where I wrote about surveillance, inspection, the legacy of Bentham’s prison design, and the spreading logic of watching as governance. The writing accumulated across years, and in October 2008 I registered two domains: CarceralNation.com and Panopticonic.com. Registering those names was the moment the concept took a shape I could hold. The articles continued. The Panopticonic archives were collected into the first volume of Best of Boles Blogs alongside material from WordPunk, Memeingful, and Celebrity Semiotic. Through all of it, the question never changed: what happens when a society that calls itself free organizes its civic life around the assumption that everyone is being watched?
That question has been running underneath this blog for twenty years. Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society is the book that question became. It is available now from David Boles Books in paperback, Kindle, and as a free PDF download.
From Blog to Book
The difference between writing about surveillance on a blog and writing a book about surveillance is the difference between accumulating observations and constructing an argument. The blog posts were reactions: a new camera program in New York, a data-sharing agreement between a police department and a tech company, a court ruling on warrantless cell phone tracking. Each post identified a piece of the architecture. The book assembles the pieces into a single structure and asks what the completed building looks like.
The answer required going back further than I had gone on the blog. Carceral Nation begins in the 1680s, with colonial lantern laws that required enslaved people to carry lit candles after dark so that white citizens could see them coming. Forced visibility. The first American surveillance technology was fire in a Black hand. From there, the principle of compulsory visibility moves through Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and Michel Foucault’s theoretical expansion of the panoptic principle, then forward through the fingerprint registry, the Cold War intelligence apparatus, the post-September 11 mass surveillance state, the commercial data economy, and the neighborhood platforms where your neighbors now report your movements to one another.
What the Blog Could Not Say
Twenty years of blog posts taught me the facts. The book taught me something about myself that the blog format never forced me to confront. During the three years I spent writing Carceral Nation, I changed my own behavior. I became more careful about what I searched. I reconsidered certain article topics for Prairie Voice because I wondered whether the research trail itself might attract attention. I paused before typing phrases into search engines that, in a different political climate, might be unremarkable but that in 2025 felt like they carried weight. I caught myself performing exactly the self-censorship the book describes, and I kept writing anyway, because documenting the condition seemed more important than pretending I was exempt from it.
Bentham called the panoptic principle “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind.” He was describing a building. What we have built is a condition in which the writer researching the surveillance state modifies his own research behavior because of the surveillance state. The book is its own evidence. I am its own case study.
The Word “Panopticonic”
The subtitle uses a word I need to account for: “panopticonic.” The adjective “panoptic,” meaning all-seeing, has existed since Bentham. “Panopticonic” appeared once in the prior record, a 1959 Time piece using it casually to describe the audience’s experience of watching prison life through cinema. The word was never developed, defined, or repeated. Carceral Nation reclaims it and gives it a specific definition: a panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. A panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. Prison logic has dissolved into the society. Guard towers have been replaced by smartphones, doorbell cameras, and algorithmic risk scores. The walls came down, and the logic walked out through the gap.
Connecting the Constellation
Readers of this blog will find threads connecting Carceral Nation to work published across the Boles web constellation over the past year. The Human Meme podcast episode “The Pause Before You Speak” examines how the surveillance condition reshapes consciousness, building on the earlier episode “Pause Before the Lie” to explore what happens when self-censorship becomes continuous rather than momentary. Prairie Voice published “The Watcher on the County Road,” investigating how Flock Safety cameras, school surveillance systems, and correctional culture have wired rural America into the same panopticonic infrastructure the book describes at the national level. The book has also been developed through the same production pipeline we have refined across across The Broadway Machine, The Counterfeit Bargain, and The Human Universal Beautiful: manuscript through multiple editorial passes, KDP paperback interior with embedded DejaVu Serif typography, wraparound cover, Kindle edition, and web PDF for free download.
The cover design deserves a word. The front panel shows a red brick wall with an irregular breach revealing a surveillance camera lens behind the bricks. Falling bricks cascade around the title text. The image is the argument in visual form: the prison wall has been broken from behind, and what looks out through the gap is an eye that records everything it sees. The brick pattern continues across the spine and back cover as a single continuous wall, because the surveillance infrastructure does not recognize the boundaries between public, private, and personal.
Getting Carceral Nation
Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society by David Boles is published by David Boles Books Writing & Publishing, New York City. 2026.
Kindle ebook: $9.95 Paperback: $19.95 Free PDF: BolesBooks.com
The book is also available on Amazon.
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Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects. One of those fourteen was called Panopticonic.
Panopticonic was the blog where I wrote about surveillance, inspection, the legacy of Bentham’s prison design, and the spreading logic of watching as governance. The writing accumulated across years, and in October 2008 I registered two domains: CarceralNation.com and Panopticonic.com. Registering those names was the moment the concept took a shape I could hold. The articles continued. The Panopticonic archives were collected into the first volume of Best of Boles Blogs alongside material from WordPunk, Memeingful, and Celebrity Semiotic. Through all of it, the question never changed: what happens when a society that calls itself free organizes its civic life around the assumption that everyone is being watched?
That question has been running underneath this blog for twenty years. Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society is the book that question became. It is available now from David Boles Books in paperback, Kindle, and as a free PDF download.
From Blog to Book
The difference between writing about surveillance on a blog and writing a book about surveillance is the difference between accumulating observations and constructing an argument. The blog posts were reactions: a new camera program in New York, a data-sharing agreement between a police department and a tech company, a court ruling on warrantless cell phone tracking. Each post identified a piece of the architecture. The book assembles the pieces into a single structure and asks what the completed building looks like.
The answer required going back further than I had gone on the blog. Carceral Nation begins in the 1680s, with colonial lantern laws that required enslaved people to carry lit candles after dark so that white citizens could see them coming. Forced visibility. The first American surveillance technology was fire in a Black hand. From there, the principle of compulsory visibility moves through Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and Michel Foucault’s theoretical expansion of the panoptic principle, then forward through the fingerprint registry, the Cold War intelligence apparatus, the post-September 11 mass surveillance state, the commercial data economy, and the neighborhood platforms where your neighbors now report your movements to one another.
What the Blog Could Not Say
Twenty years of blog posts taught me the facts. The book taught me something about myself that the blog format never forced me to confront. During the three years I spent writing Carceral Nation, I changed my own behavior. I became more careful about what I searched. I reconsidered certain article topics for Prairie Voice because I wondered whether the research trail itself might attract attention. I paused before typing phrases into search engines that, in a different political climate, might be unremarkable but that in 2025 felt like they carried weight. I caught myself performing exactly the self-censorship the book describes, and I kept writing anyway, because documenting the condition seemed more important than pretending I was exempt from it.
Bentham called the panoptic principle “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind.” He was describing a building. What we have built is a condition in which the writer researching the surveillance state modifies his own research behavior because of the surveillance state. The book is its own evidence. I am its own case study.
The Word “Panopticonic”
The subtitle uses a word I need to account for: “panopticonic.” The adjective “panoptic,” meaning all-seeing, has existed since Bentham. “Panopticonic” appeared once in the prior record, a 1959 Time piece using it casually to describe the audience’s experience of watching prison life through cinema. The word was never developed, defined, or repeated. Carceral Nation reclaims it and gives it a specific definition: a panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. A panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. Prison logic has dissolved into the society. Guard towers have been replaced by smartphones, doorbell cameras, and algorithmic risk scores. The walls came down, and the logic walked out through the gap.
Connecting the Constellation
Readers of this blog will find threads connecting Carceral Nation to work published across the Boles web constellation over the past year. The Human Meme podcast episode “The Pause Before You Speak” examines how the surveillance condition reshapes consciousness, building on the earlier episode “Pause Before the Lie” to explore what happens when self-censorship becomes continuous rather than momentary. Prairie Voice published “The Watcher on the County Road,” investigating how Flock Safety cameras, school surveillance systems, and correctional culture have wired rural America into the same panopticonic infrastructure the book describes at the national level. The book has also been developed through the same production pipeline we have refined across across The Broadway Machine, The Counterfeit Bargain, and The Human Universal Beautiful: manuscript through multiple editorial passes, KDP paperback interior with embedded DejaVu Serif typography, wraparound cover, Kindle edition, and web PDF for free download.
The cover design deserves a word. The front panel shows a red brick wall with an irregular breach revealing a surveillance camera lens behind the bricks. Falling bricks cascade around the title text. The image is the argument in visual form: the prison wall has been broken from behind, and what looks out through the gap is an eye that records everything it sees. The brick pattern continues across the spine and back cover as a single continuous wall, because the surveillance infrastructure does not recognize the boundaries between public, private, and personal.
Getting Carceral Nation
Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society by David Boles is published by David Boles Books Writing & Publishing, New York City. 2026.
Kindle ebook: $9.95 Paperback: $19.95 Free PDF: BolesBooks.com
The book is also available on Amazon.
#atlanta #bolesBooks #books #carceralNation #davidBolesBlogs #lens #panopticonic #prison #soceity #surveillance #watching -
Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects. One of those fourteen was called Panopticonic.
Panopticonic was the blog where I wrote about surveillance, inspection, the legacy of Bentham’s prison design, and the spreading logic of watching as governance. The writing accumulated across years, and in October 2008 I registered two domains: CarceralNation.com and Panopticonic.com. Registering those names was the moment the concept took a shape I could hold. The articles continued. The Panopticonic archives were collected into the first volume of Best of Boles Blogs alongside material from WordPunk, Memeingful, and Celebrity Semiotic. Through all of it, the question never changed: what happens when a society that calls itself free organizes its civic life around the assumption that everyone is being watched?
That question has been running underneath this blog for twenty years. Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society is the book that question became. It is available now from David Boles Books in paperback, Kindle, and as a free PDF download.
From Blog to Book
The difference between writing about surveillance on a blog and writing a book about surveillance is the difference between accumulating observations and constructing an argument. The blog posts were reactions: a new camera program in New York, a data-sharing agreement between a police department and a tech company, a court ruling on warrantless cell phone tracking. Each post identified a piece of the architecture. The book assembles the pieces into a single structure and asks what the completed building looks like.
The answer required going back further than I had gone on the blog. Carceral Nation begins in the 1680s, with colonial lantern laws that required enslaved people to carry lit candles after dark so that white citizens could see them coming. Forced visibility. The first American surveillance technology was fire in a Black hand. From there, the principle of compulsory visibility moves through Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and Michel Foucault’s theoretical expansion of the panoptic principle, then forward through the fingerprint registry, the Cold War intelligence apparatus, the post-September 11 mass surveillance state, the commercial data economy, and the neighborhood platforms where your neighbors now report your movements to one another.
What the Blog Could Not Say
Twenty years of blog posts taught me the facts. The book taught me something about myself that the blog format never forced me to confront. During the three years I spent writing Carceral Nation, I changed my own behavior. I became more careful about what I searched. I reconsidered certain article topics for Prairie Voice because I wondered whether the research trail itself might attract attention. I paused before typing phrases into search engines that, in a different political climate, might be unremarkable but that in 2025 felt like they carried weight. I caught myself performing exactly the self-censorship the book describes, and I kept writing anyway, because documenting the condition seemed more important than pretending I was exempt from it.
Bentham called the panoptic principle “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind.” He was describing a building. What we have built is a condition in which the writer researching the surveillance state modifies his own research behavior because of the surveillance state. The book is its own evidence. I am its own case study.
The Word “Panopticonic”
The subtitle uses a word I need to account for: “panopticonic.” The adjective “panoptic,” meaning all-seeing, has existed since Bentham. “Panopticonic” appeared once in the prior record, a 1959 Time piece using it casually to describe the audience’s experience of watching prison life through cinema. The word was never developed, defined, or repeated. Carceral Nation reclaims it and gives it a specific definition: a panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. A panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. Prison logic has dissolved into the society. Guard towers have been replaced by smartphones, doorbell cameras, and algorithmic risk scores. The walls came down, and the logic walked out through the gap.
Connecting the Constellation
Readers of this blog will find threads connecting Carceral Nation to work published across the Boles web constellation over the past year. The Human Meme podcast episode “The Pause Before You Speak” examines how the surveillance condition reshapes consciousness, building on the earlier episode “Pause Before the Lie” to explore what happens when self-censorship becomes continuous rather than momentary. Prairie Voice published “The Watcher on the County Road,” investigating how Flock Safety cameras, school surveillance systems, and correctional culture have wired rural America into the same panopticonic infrastructure the book describes at the national level. The book has also been developed through the same production pipeline we have refined across across The Broadway Machine, The Counterfeit Bargain, and The Human Universal Beautiful: manuscript through multiple editorial passes, KDP paperback interior with embedded DejaVu Serif typography, wraparound cover, Kindle edition, and web PDF for free download.
The cover design deserves a word. The front panel shows a red brick wall with an irregular breach revealing a surveillance camera lens behind the bricks. Falling bricks cascade around the title text. The image is the argument in visual form: the prison wall has been broken from behind, and what looks out through the gap is an eye that records everything it sees. The brick pattern continues across the spine and back cover as a single continuous wall, because the surveillance infrastructure does not recognize the boundaries between public, private, and personal.
Getting Carceral Nation
Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society by David Boles is published by David Boles Books Writing & Publishing, New York City. 2026.
Kindle ebook: $9.95 Paperback: $19.95 Free PDF: BolesBooks.com
The book is also available on Amazon.
#atlanta #bolesBooks #books #carceralNation #davidBolesBlogs #lens #panopticonic #prison #soceity #surveillance #watching -
Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects. One of those fourteen was called Panopticonic.
Panopticonic was the blog where I wrote about surveillance, inspection, the legacy of Bentham’s prison design, and the spreading logic of watching as governance. The writing accumulated across years, and in October 2008 I registered two domains: CarceralNation.com and Panopticonic.com. Registering those names was the moment the concept took a shape I could hold. The articles continued. The Panopticonic archives were collected into the first volume of Best of Boles Blogs alongside material from WordPunk, Memeingful, and Celebrity Semiotic. Through all of it, the question never changed: what happens when a society that calls itself free organizes its civic life around the assumption that everyone is being watched?
That question has been running underneath this blog for twenty years. Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society is the book that question became. It is available now from David Boles Books in paperback, Kindle, and as a free PDF download.
From Blog to Book
The difference between writing about surveillance on a blog and writing a book about surveillance is the difference between accumulating observations and constructing an argument. The blog posts were reactions: a new camera program in New York, a data-sharing agreement between a police department and a tech company, a court ruling on warrantless cell phone tracking. Each post identified a piece of the architecture. The book assembles the pieces into a single structure and asks what the completed building looks like.
The answer required going back further than I had gone on the blog. Carceral Nation begins in the 1680s, with colonial lantern laws that required enslaved people to carry lit candles after dark so that white citizens could see them coming. Forced visibility. The first American surveillance technology was fire in a Black hand. From there, the principle of compulsory visibility moves through Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and Michel Foucault’s theoretical expansion of the panoptic principle, then forward through the fingerprint registry, the Cold War intelligence apparatus, the post-September 11 mass surveillance state, the commercial data economy, and the neighborhood platforms where your neighbors now report your movements to one another.
What the Blog Could Not Say
Twenty years of blog posts taught me the facts. The book taught me something about myself that the blog format never forced me to confront. During the three years I spent writing Carceral Nation, I changed my own behavior. I became more careful about what I searched. I reconsidered certain article topics for Prairie Voice because I wondered whether the research trail itself might attract attention. I paused before typing phrases into search engines that, in a different political climate, might be unremarkable but that in 2025 felt like they carried weight. I caught myself performing exactly the self-censorship the book describes, and I kept writing anyway, because documenting the condition seemed more important than pretending I was exempt from it.
Bentham called the panoptic principle “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind.” He was describing a building. What we have built is a condition in which the writer researching the surveillance state modifies his own research behavior because of the surveillance state. The book is its own evidence. I am its own case study.
The Word “Panopticonic”
The subtitle uses a word I need to account for: “panopticonic.” The adjective “panoptic,” meaning all-seeing, has existed since Bentham. “Panopticonic” appeared once in the prior record, a 1959 Time piece using it casually to describe the audience’s experience of watching prison life through cinema. The word was never developed, defined, or repeated. Carceral Nation reclaims it and gives it a specific definition: a panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. A panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. Prison logic has dissolved into the society. Guard towers have been replaced by smartphones, doorbell cameras, and algorithmic risk scores. The walls came down, and the logic walked out through the gap.
Connecting the Constellation
Readers of this blog will find threads connecting Carceral Nation to work published across the Boles web constellation over the past year. The Human Meme podcast episode “The Pause Before You Speak” examines how the surveillance condition reshapes consciousness, building on the earlier episode “Pause Before the Lie” to explore what happens when self-censorship becomes continuous rather than momentary. Prairie Voice published “The Watcher on the County Road,” investigating how Flock Safety cameras, school surveillance systems, and correctional culture have wired rural America into the same panopticonic infrastructure the book describes at the national level. The book has also been developed through the same production pipeline we have refined across across The Broadway Machine, The Counterfeit Bargain, and The Human Universal Beautiful: manuscript through multiple editorial passes, KDP paperback interior with embedded DejaVu Serif typography, wraparound cover, Kindle edition, and web PDF for free download.
The cover design deserves a word. The front panel shows a red brick wall with an irregular breach revealing a surveillance camera lens behind the bricks. Falling bricks cascade around the title text. The image is the argument in visual form: the prison wall has been broken from behind, and what looks out through the gap is an eye that records everything it sees. The brick pattern continues across the spine and back cover as a single continuous wall, because the surveillance infrastructure does not recognize the boundaries between public, private, and personal.
Getting Carceral Nation
Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society by David Boles is published by David Boles Books Writing & Publishing, New York City. 2026.
Kindle ebook: $9.95 Paperback: $19.95 Free PDF: BolesBooks.com
The book is also available on Amazon.
#atlanta #bolesBooks #books #carceralNation #davidBolesBlogs #lens #panopticonic #prison #soceity #surveillance #watching -
Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects. One of those fourteen was called Panopticonic.
Panopticonic was the blog where I wrote about surveillance, inspection, the legacy of Bentham’s prison design, and the spreading logic of watching as governance. The writing accumulated across years, and in October 2008 I registered two domains: CarceralNation.com and Panopticonic.com. Registering those names was the moment the concept took a shape I could hold. The articles continued. The Panopticonic archives were collected into the first volume of Best of Boles Blogs alongside material from WordPunk, Memeingful, and Celebrity Semiotic. Through all of it, the question never changed: what happens when a society that calls itself free organizes its civic life around the assumption that everyone is being watched?
That question has been running underneath this blog for twenty years. Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society is the book that question became. It is available now from David Boles Books in paperback, Kindle, and as a free PDF download.
From Blog to Book
The difference between writing about surveillance on a blog and writing a book about surveillance is the difference between accumulating observations and constructing an argument. The blog posts were reactions: a new camera program in New York, a data-sharing agreement between a police department and a tech company, a court ruling on warrantless cell phone tracking. Each post identified a piece of the architecture. The book assembles the pieces into a single structure and asks what the completed building looks like.
The answer required going back further than I had gone on the blog. Carceral Nation begins in the 1680s, with colonial lantern laws that required enslaved people to carry lit candles after dark so that white citizens could see them coming. Forced visibility. The first American surveillance technology was fire in a Black hand. From there, the principle of compulsory visibility moves through Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and Michel Foucault’s theoretical expansion of the panoptic principle, then forward through the fingerprint registry, the Cold War intelligence apparatus, the post-September 11 mass surveillance state, the commercial data economy, and the neighborhood platforms where your neighbors now report your movements to one another.
What the Blog Could Not Say
Twenty years of blog posts taught me the facts. The book taught me something about myself that the blog format never forced me to confront. During the three years I spent writing Carceral Nation, I changed my own behavior. I became more careful about what I searched. I reconsidered certain article topics for Prairie Voice because I wondered whether the research trail itself might attract attention. I paused before typing phrases into search engines that, in a different political climate, might be unremarkable but that in 2025 felt like they carried weight. I caught myself performing exactly the self-censorship the book describes, and I kept writing anyway, because documenting the condition seemed more important than pretending I was exempt from it.
Bentham called the panoptic principle “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind.” He was describing a building. What we have built is a condition in which the writer researching the surveillance state modifies his own research behavior because of the surveillance state. The book is its own evidence. I am its own case study.
The Word “Panopticonic”
The subtitle uses a word I need to account for: “panopticonic.” The adjective “panoptic,” meaning all-seeing, has existed since Bentham. “Panopticonic” appeared once in the prior record, a 1959 Time piece using it casually to describe the audience’s experience of watching prison life through cinema. The word was never developed, defined, or repeated. Carceral Nation reclaims it and gives it a specific definition: a panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. A panopticonic society is one in which the panoptic principle has escaped the institutional settings Foucault described and has become the organizing logic of civic life itself. Prison logic has dissolved into the society. Guard towers have been replaced by smartphones, doorbell cameras, and algorithmic risk scores. The walls came down, and the logic walked out through the gap.
Connecting the Constellation
Readers of this blog will find threads connecting Carceral Nation to work published across the Boles web constellation over the past year. The Human Meme podcast episode “The Pause Before You Speak” examines how the surveillance condition reshapes consciousness, building on the earlier episode “Pause Before the Lie” to explore what happens when self-censorship becomes continuous rather than momentary. Prairie Voice published “The Watcher on the County Road,” investigating how Flock Safety cameras, school surveillance systems, and correctional culture have wired rural America into the same panopticonic infrastructure the book describes at the national level. The book has also been developed through the same production pipeline we have refined across across The Broadway Machine, The Counterfeit Bargain, and The Human Universal Beautiful: manuscript through multiple editorial passes, KDP paperback interior with embedded DejaVu Serif typography, wraparound cover, Kindle edition, and web PDF for free download.
The cover design deserves a word. The front panel shows a red brick wall with an irregular breach revealing a surveillance camera lens behind the bricks. Falling bricks cascade around the title text. The image is the argument in visual form: the prison wall has been broken from behind, and what looks out through the gap is an eye that records everything it sees. The brick pattern continues across the spine and back cover as a single continuous wall, because the surveillance infrastructure does not recognize the boundaries between public, private, and personal.
Getting Carceral Nation
Carceral Nation: How the Prison Escaped Its Walls and Made a Panopticonic Society by David Boles is published by David Boles Books Writing & Publishing, New York City. 2026.
Kindle ebook: $9.95 Paperback: $19.95 Free PDF: BolesBooks.com
The book is also available on Amazon.
#atlanta #bolesBooks #books #carceralNation #davidBolesBlogs #lens #panopticonic #prison #soceity #surveillance #watching -
Weekly output: AT&T OneConnect, federal privacy fears, Artemis II, better inflight WiFi, 6G
This week started with me in Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference, then had a quick trip to Boston to see family for Easter, and tomorrow will have me off to San Francisco for the HumanX conference to lead two panels there.
I wrote an extra post Tuesday for Patreon readers recapping some scenes from SXSW, including a not-yet-campaign appearance by California governor Gavin Newsom and a stemwinder of a speech by Patreon founder Jack Conte on how human creativity can endure through the rise of AI.
3/31/2026: AT&T OneConnect Bundles Fiber, Wireless, Doesn’t Say What Mobile Service You Get, PCMag
I had just enough spare time at ONA to field this story–even factoring in time to try, without success, to get AT&T to explain just what wireless plan subscribers would get with this new offering.
4/1/2026: The One Thing Americans Can Agree On: The Feds Collect Too Much Personal Data, PCMag
I wrote up this study by the Center for Democracy & Technology a day after it was published Tuesday in part because I had nearly no free time on day two of ONA.
4/1/2026: NASA Launches Artemis II, Its First Moonshot Since 1972, PCMag
I watched the launch Wednesday evening of Artemis II with fingers crossed through main engine cutoff, then followed the first few hours of the mission while writing up this post. I updated the story a day later after the translunar injection burn of the Orion spacecraft’s service module engine committed astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen on a flight around the Moon and then back to Earth. I can’t wait to see this American and Canadian crew’s Earthrise photos.
4/2/2026: Fast, Free Wi-Fi Now Arriving at These Airlines, AARP
I showed up at my occasional client’s site not as a writer but as a subject-matter expert, courtesy of AARP writer Berit Thorkelson quizzing me over e-mail for this piece about how low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink are upgrading inflight WiFi.
4/3/2026: Unfortunately, It’s Time to Talk About 6G. Here’s What You Need to Know, PCMag
I got most of my reporting for this done at MWC Barcelona, but then needed a little more time to collect some industry insight about the wireless industry’s curious rush to hype 6G when so many of its customers are still trying to discern how 5G is supposed to make a noticeable difference in their everyday phone experience.
#6G #AmazonLeo #Artemis #ArtemisII #ATT #ATTBundle #ATTOneConnect #CDT #CenterForDemocracyTechnology #inflightWiFi #Integrity #lunarFlyby #moonshot #MWCBarcelona #nasa #Orion #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #StarlinkWiFi #surveillance -
Weekly output: AT&T OneConnect, federal privacy fears, Artemis II, better inflight WiFi, 6G
This week started with me in Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference, then had a quick trip to Boston to see family for Easter, and tomorrow will have me off to San Francisco for the HumanX conference to lead two panels there.
I wrote an extra post Tuesday for Patreon readers recapping some scenes from SXSW, including a not-yet-campaign appearance by California governor Gavin Newsom and a stemwinder of a speech by Patreon founder Jack Conte on how human creativity can endure through the rise of AI.
3/31/2026: AT&T OneConnect Bundles Fiber, Wireless, Doesn’t Say What Mobile Service You Get, PCMag
I had just enough spare time at ONA to field this story–even factoring in time to try, without success, to get AT&T to explain just what wireless plan subscribers would get with this new offering.
4/1/2026: The One Thing Americans Can Agree On: The Feds Collect Too Much Personal Data, PCMag
I wrote up this study by the Center for Democracy & Technology a day after it was published Tuesday in part because I had nearly no free time on day two of ONA.
4/1/2026: NASA Launches Artemis II, Its First Moonshot Since 1972, PCMag
I watched the launch Wednesday evening of Artemis II with fingers crossed through main engine cutoff, then followed the first few hours of the mission while writing up this post. I updated the story a day later after the translunar injection burn of the Orion spacecraft’s service module engine committed astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen on a flight around the Moon and then back to Earth. I can’t wait to see this American and Canadian crew’s Earthrise photos.
4/2/2026: Fast, Free Wi-Fi Now Arriving at These Airlines, AARP
I showed up at my occasional client’s site not as a writer but as a subject-matter expert, courtesy of AARP writer Berit Thorkelson quizzing me over e-mail for this piece about how low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink are upgrading inflight WiFi.
4/3/2026: Unfortunately, It’s Time to Talk About 6G. Here’s What You Need to Know, PCMag
I got most of my reporting for this done at MWC Barcelona, but then needed a little more time to collect some industry insight about the wireless industry’s curious rush to hype 6G when so many of its customers are still trying to discern how 5G is supposed to make a noticeable difference in their everyday phone experience.
#6G #AmazonLeo #Artemis #ArtemisII #ATT #ATTBundle #ATTOneConnect #CDT #CenterForDemocracyTechnology #inflightWiFi #Integrity #lunarFlyby #moonshot #MWCBarcelona #nasa #Orion #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #StarlinkWiFi #surveillance -
Weekly output: AT&T OneConnect, federal privacy fears, Artemis II, better inflight WiFi, 6G
This week started with me in Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference, then had a quick trip to Boston to see family for Easter, and tomorrow will have me off to San Francisco for the HumanX conference to lead two panels there.
I wrote an extra post Tuesday for Patreon readers recapping some scenes from SXSW, including a not-yet-campaign appearance by California governor Gavin Newsom and a stemwinder of a speech by Patreon founder Jack Conte on how human creativity can endure through the rise of AI.
3/31/2026: AT&T OneConnect Bundles Fiber, Wireless, Doesn’t Say What Mobile Service You Get, PCMag
I had just enough spare time at ONA to field this story–even factoring in time to try, without success, to get AT&T to explain just what wireless plan subscribers would get with this new offering.
4/1/2026: The One Thing Americans Can Agree On: The Feds Collect Too Much Personal Data, PCMag
I wrote up this study by the Center for Democracy & Technology a day after it was published Tuesday in part because I had nearly no free time on day two of ONA.
4/1/2026: NASA Launches Artemis II, Its First Moonshot Since 1972, PCMag
I watched the launch Wednesday evening of Artemis II with fingers crossed through main engine cutoff, then followed the first few hours of the mission while writing up this post. I updated the story a day later after the translunar injection burn of the Orion spacecraft’s service module engine committed astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen on a flight around the Moon and then back to Earth. I can’t wait to see this American and Canadian crew’s Earthrise photos.
4/2/2026: Fast, Free Wi-Fi Now Arriving at These Airlines, AARP
I showed up at my occasional client’s site not as a writer but as a subject-matter expert, courtesy of AARP writer Berit Thorkelson quizzing me over e-mail for this piece about how low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink are upgrading inflight WiFi.
4/3/2026: Unfortunately, It’s Time to Talk About 6G. Here’s What You Need to Know, PCMag
I got most of my reporting for this done at MWC Barcelona, but then needed a little more time to collect some industry insight about the wireless industry’s curious rush to hype 6G when so many of its customers are still trying to discern how 5G is supposed to make a noticeable difference in their everyday phone experience.
#6G #AmazonLeo #Artemis #ArtemisII #ATT #ATTBundle #ATTOneConnect #CDT #CenterForDemocracyTechnology #inflightWiFi #Integrity #lunarFlyby #moonshot #MWCBarcelona #nasa #Orion #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #StarlinkWiFi #surveillance -
Weekly output: AT&T OneConnect, federal privacy fears, Artemis II, better inflight WiFi, 6G
This week started with me in Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference, then had a quick trip to Boston to see family for Easter, and tomorrow will have me off to San Francisco for the HumanX conference to lead two panels there.
I wrote an extra post Tuesday for Patreon readers recapping some scenes from SXSW, including a not-yet-campaign appearance by California governor Gavin Newsom and a stemwinder of a speech by Patreon founder Jack Conte on how human creativity can endure through the rise of AI.
3/31/2026: AT&T OneConnect Bundles Fiber, Wireless, Doesn’t Say What Mobile Service You Get, PCMag
I had just enough spare time at ONA to field this story–even factoring in time to try, without success, to get AT&T to explain just what wireless plan subscribers would get with this new offering.
4/1/2026: The One Thing Americans Can Agree On: The Feds Collect Too Much Personal Data, PCMag
I wrote up this study by the Center for Democracy & Technology a day after it was published Tuesday in part because I had nearly no free time on day two of ONA.
4/1/2026: NASA Launches Artemis II, Its First Moonshot Since 1972, PCMag
I watched the launch Wednesday evening of Artemis II with fingers crossed through main engine cutoff, then followed the first few hours of the mission while writing up this post. I updated the story a day later after the translunar injection burn of the Orion spacecraft’s service module engine committed astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen on a flight around the Moon and then back to Earth. I can’t wait to see this American and Canadian crew’s Earthrise photos.
4/2/2026: Fast, Free Wi-Fi Now Arriving at These Airlines, AARP
I showed up at my occasional client’s site not as a writer but as a subject-matter expert, courtesy of AARP writer Berit Thorkelson quizzing me over e-mail for this piece about how low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink are upgrading inflight WiFi.
4/3/2026: Unfortunately, It’s Time to Talk About 6G. Here’s What You Need to Know, PCMag
I got most of my reporting for this done at MWC Barcelona, but then needed a little more time to collect some industry insight about the wireless industry’s curious rush to hype 6G when so many of its customers are still trying to discern how 5G is supposed to make a noticeable difference in their everyday phone experience.
#6G #AmazonLeo #Artemis #ArtemisII #ATT #ATTBundle #ATTOneConnect #CDT #CenterForDemocracyTechnology #inflightWiFi #Integrity #lunarFlyby #moonshot #MWCBarcelona #nasa #Orion #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #StarlinkWiFi #surveillance -
Weekly output: AT&T OneConnect, federal privacy fears, Artemis II, better inflight WiFi, 6G
This week started with me in Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference, then had a quick trip to Boston to see family for Easter, and tomorrow will have me off to San Francisco for the HumanX conference to lead two panels there.
I wrote an extra post Tuesday for Patreon readers recapping some scenes from SXSW, including a not-yet-campaign appearance by California governor Gavin Newsom and a stemwinder of a speech by Patreon founder Jack Conte on how human creativity can endure through the rise of AI.
3/31/2026: AT&T OneConnect Bundles Fiber, Wireless, Doesn’t Say What Mobile Service You Get, PCMag
I had just enough spare time at ONA to field this story–even factoring in time to try, without success, to get AT&T to explain just what wireless plan subscribers would get with this new offering.
4/1/2026: The One Thing Americans Can Agree On: The Feds Collect Too Much Personal Data, PCMag
I wrote up this study by the Center for Democracy & Technology a day after it was published Tuesday in part because I had nearly no free time on day two of ONA.
4/1/2026: NASA Launches Artemis II, Its First Moonshot Since 1972, PCMag
I watched the launch Wednesday evening of Artemis II with fingers crossed through main engine cutoff, then followed the first few hours of the mission while writing up this post. I updated the story a day later after the translunar injection burn of the Orion spacecraft’s service module engine committed astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen on a flight around the Moon and then back to Earth. I can’t wait to see this American and Canadian crew’s Earthrise photos.
4/2/2026: Fast, Free Wi-Fi Now Arriving at These Airlines, AARP
I showed up at my occasional client’s site not as a writer but as a subject-matter expert, courtesy of AARP writer Berit Thorkelson quizzing me over e-mail for this piece about how low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink are upgrading inflight WiFi.
4/3/2026: Unfortunately, It’s Time to Talk About 6G. Here’s What You Need to Know, PCMag
I got most of my reporting for this done at MWC Barcelona, but then needed a little more time to collect some industry insight about the wireless industry’s curious rush to hype 6G when so many of its customers are still trying to discern how 5G is supposed to make a noticeable difference in their everyday phone experience.
#6G #AmazonLeo #Artemis #ArtemisII #ATT #ATTBundle #ATTOneConnect #CDT #CenterForDemocracyTechnology #inflightWiFi #Integrity #lunarFlyby #moonshot #MWCBarcelona #nasa #Orion #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #StarlinkWiFi #surveillance -
Artemis II leci na Księżyc, z nim iPhone’y – trudno o lepsze świętowanie jubileuszu Apple
Czekaliśmy na to ponad pół wieku. 2 kwietnia krótko po północy polskiego czasu najpotężniejsza rakieta w historii NASA wyniosła czworo astronautów w kierunku Księżyca.
Misja Artemis II to nie tylko powrót ludzkości w głęboki kosmos po 54 latach przerwy, ale też – co zauważyli bystrzy fani nowych technologii – nieoficjalne, iście kosmiczne obchody 50. urodzin Apple.
New iPhones are being packed into the suits of the Artemis II Crew!
There is something very familiar about the iPhone look that will make the Moon feel accessible, we are literally going to see the lunar surface through the same lens we use to capture our own lives every day. pic.twitter.com/sDDM5NSRMX
— Owen Sparks (@OwenSparks) April 1, 2026
Ziemia drży, Orion leci w kosmos
Start nastąpił dokładnie o 00:35 czasu polskiego (środa, 18:35 czasu wschodniego) z historycznego kompleksu startowego 39B w Centrum Kosmicznym im. Kennedy’ego na Florydzie. Potężna rakieta Space Launch System (SLS) o wysokości 98 metrów wygenerowała 39,1 miliona niutonów ciągu, oficjalnie przyćmiewając legendarne maszyny Saturn V z programu Apollo.
Na szczycie tej imponującej konstrukcji, wewnątrz statku Orion, zasiadła czteroosobowa załoga:
- Reid Wiseman (50 lat) – dowódca misji, kapitan Marynarki Wojennej USA.
- Victor Glover – pilot statku.
- Christina Koch – specjalistka misji.
- Jeremy Hansen – kanadyjski astronauta, reprezentujący Kanadyjską Agencję Kosmiczną (CSA).
Zaledwie kilka minut po starcie, przelatując nad Oceanem Atlantyckim, dowódca zameldował z kokpitu z niesamowitym spokojem: „Mamy piękny wschód Księżyca. Zmierzamy prosto na niego”.
Kosmiczny jubileusz z nadgryzionym jabłkiem
Start Artemis II zbiega się z wyjątkową datą dla branży technologicznej. Równo 50 lat temu, 1 kwietnia 1976 roku, Steve Jobs i Steve Wozniak założyli firmę Apple. Jak zauważają rozemocjonowani komentatorzy na platformie X (w tym m.in. znany obserwator branży Owen Sparks), trudno o lepsze uświetnienie tego jubileuszu.
Na pokładzie statku kosmicznego zmierzającego w stronę Księżyca znalazły się urządzenia z iOS – w tym iPhone’y i iPady. Technologie konsumenckie Apple już wcześniej brały udział w testach interfejsów (np. w ramach projektu Callisto podczas bezzałogowej misji Artemis I), a dziś na dobre wpisały się w krajobraz współczesnej eksploracji kosmosu. Choć Orion posiada klasyczne, fizyczne kontrolery dla pilota, integracja nowoczesnych tabletów i smartfonów pomaga astronautom w komunikacji i zarządzaniu zadaniami w sposób, o jakim w czasach misji Apollo mogliśmy tylko czytać w literaturze science fiction.
Dziewięć dni, które przejdą do historii
Warto podkreślić, że Artemis II to misja testowa i załoga nie wyląduje jeszcze na Srebrnym Globie (to zadanie powierzono misji Artemis IV w 2028 roku). Astronauci wykonają przelot wokół Księżyca, testując systemy transportowe i podtrzymywania życia.
Oto kluczowe liczby i etapy tej misji:
- 406 840 km od Ziemi – na taką odległość odlecą astronauci. Nastąpi to w poniedziałek, 6 kwietnia. Nikt w dotychczasowej historii ludzkości nie znalazł się tak daleko od naszej planety.
- Niewidoczna strona Księżyca – załoga zobaczy na własne oczy obszary, które dotąd eksplorowały głównie roboty i sondy. Będą weryfikować „gołym okiem” to, co dotychczas widzieliśmy tylko na zdjęciach z satelitów.
- Ręczne sterowanie – pilot Victor Glover ręcznie poprowadzi statek Orion, zbliżając się do odrzuconego górnego stopnia rakiety SLS na odległość zaledwie 10 metrów, w celu przetestowania zwrotności i reakcji statku.
- Prędkość wejścia: 40 000 km/h – wykorzystując asystę grawitacyjną Księżyca, Orion rozpędzi się do około 11 kilometrów na sekundę, zanim uderzy w ziemską atmosferę.
- 10 kwietnia – tego dnia planowane jest wodowanie u wybrzeży Kalifornii.
Stawka wyższa niż kiedykolwiek
Dla NASA, która przez dwie dekady zainwestowała w program Artemis blisko 100 miliardów dolarów, ten start to ostateczny sprawdzian technologiczny. Agencja znajduje się w otwartym wyścigu kosmicznym z Chinami, a powodzenie obecnego lotu szeroko otwiera drzwi dla planowanych lądowników księżycowych od firm Elona Muska (SpaceX) i Jeffa Bezosa (Blue Origin).
Klamka zapadła. Era powrotu na Księżyc rozpoczęła się na naszych oczach.
#50UrodzinyApple #Apple #ArtemisII #eksploracjaKosmosu #iPhoneWKosmosie #Księżyc #NASA #SpaceLaunchSystem #statekOrion #steveJobs -
Artemis II leci na Księżyc, z nim iPhone’y – trudno o lepsze świętowanie jubileuszu Apple
Czekaliśmy na to ponad pół wieku. 2 kwietnia krótko po północy polskiego czasu najpotężniejsza rakieta w historii NASA wyniosła czworo astronautów w kierunku Księżyca.
Misja Artemis II to nie tylko powrót ludzkości w głęboki kosmos po 54 latach przerwy, ale też – co zauważyli bystrzy fani nowych technologii – nieoficjalne, iście kosmiczne obchody 50. urodzin Apple.
New iPhones are being packed into the suits of the Artemis II Crew!
There is something very familiar about the iPhone look that will make the Moon feel accessible, we are literally going to see the lunar surface through the same lens we use to capture our own lives every day. pic.twitter.com/sDDM5NSRMX
— Owen Sparks (@OwenSparks) April 1, 2026
Ziemia drży, Orion leci w kosmos
Start nastąpił dokładnie o 00:35 czasu polskiego (środa, 18:35 czasu wschodniego) z historycznego kompleksu startowego 39B w Centrum Kosmicznym im. Kennedy’ego na Florydzie. Potężna rakieta Space Launch System (SLS) o wysokości 98 metrów wygenerowała 39,1 miliona niutonów ciągu, oficjalnie przyćmiewając legendarne maszyny Saturn V z programu Apollo.
Na szczycie tej imponującej konstrukcji, wewnątrz statku Orion, zasiadła czteroosobowa załoga:
- Reid Wiseman (50 lat) – dowódca misji, kapitan Marynarki Wojennej USA.
- Victor Glover – pilot statku.
- Christina Koch – specjalistka misji.
- Jeremy Hansen – kanadyjski astronauta, reprezentujący Kanadyjską Agencję Kosmiczną (CSA).
Zaledwie kilka minut po starcie, przelatując nad Oceanem Atlantyckim, dowódca zameldował z kokpitu z niesamowitym spokojem: „Mamy piękny wschód Księżyca. Zmierzamy prosto na niego”.
Kosmiczny jubileusz z nadgryzionym jabłkiem
Start Artemis II zbiega się z wyjątkową datą dla branży technologicznej. Równo 50 lat temu, 1 kwietnia 1976 roku, Steve Jobs i Steve Wozniak założyli firmę Apple. Jak zauważają rozemocjonowani komentatorzy na platformie X (w tym m.in. znany obserwator branży Owen Sparks), trudno o lepsze uświetnienie tego jubileuszu.
Na pokładzie statku kosmicznego zmierzającego w stronę Księżyca znalazły się urządzenia z iOS – w tym iPhone’y i iPady. Technologie konsumenckie Apple już wcześniej brały udział w testach interfejsów (np. w ramach projektu Callisto podczas bezzałogowej misji Artemis I), a dziś na dobre wpisały się w krajobraz współczesnej eksploracji kosmosu. Choć Orion posiada klasyczne, fizyczne kontrolery dla pilota, integracja nowoczesnych tabletów i smartfonów pomaga astronautom w komunikacji i zarządzaniu zadaniami w sposób, o jakim w czasach misji Apollo mogliśmy tylko czytać w literaturze science fiction.
Dziewięć dni, które przejdą do historii
Warto podkreślić, że Artemis II to misja testowa i załoga nie wyląduje jeszcze na Srebrnym Globie (to zadanie powierzono misji Artemis IV w 2028 roku). Astronauci wykonają przelot wokół Księżyca, testując systemy transportowe i podtrzymywania życia.
Oto kluczowe liczby i etapy tej misji:
- 406 840 km od Ziemi – na taką odległość odlecą astronauci. Nastąpi to w poniedziałek, 6 kwietnia. Nikt w dotychczasowej historii ludzkości nie znalazł się tak daleko od naszej planety.
- Niewidoczna strona Księżyca – załoga zobaczy na własne oczy obszary, które dotąd eksplorowały głównie roboty i sondy. Będą weryfikować „gołym okiem” to, co dotychczas widzieliśmy tylko na zdjęciach z satelitów.
- Ręczne sterowanie – pilot Victor Glover ręcznie poprowadzi statek Orion, zbliżając się do odrzuconego górnego stopnia rakiety SLS na odległość zaledwie 10 metrów, w celu przetestowania zwrotności i reakcji statku.
- Prędkość wejścia: 40 000 km/h – wykorzystując asystę grawitacyjną Księżyca, Orion rozpędzi się do około 11 kilometrów na sekundę, zanim uderzy w ziemską atmosferę.
- 10 kwietnia – tego dnia planowane jest wodowanie u wybrzeży Kalifornii.
Stawka wyższa niż kiedykolwiek
Dla NASA, która przez dwie dekady zainwestowała w program Artemis blisko 100 miliardów dolarów, ten start to ostateczny sprawdzian technologiczny. Agencja znajduje się w otwartym wyścigu kosmicznym z Chinami, a powodzenie obecnego lotu szeroko otwiera drzwi dla planowanych lądowników księżycowych od firm Elona Muska (SpaceX) i Jeffa Bezosa (Blue Origin).
Klamka zapadła. Era powrotu na Księżyc rozpoczęła się na naszych oczach.
#50UrodzinyApple #Apple #ArtemisII #eksploracjaKosmosu #iPhoneWKosmosie #Księżyc #NASA #SpaceLaunchSystem #statekOrion #steveJobs -
Artemis II leci na Księżyc, z nim iPhone’y – trudno o lepsze świętowanie jubileuszu Apple
Czekaliśmy na to ponad pół wieku. 2 kwietnia krótko po północy polskiego czasu najpotężniejsza rakieta w historii NASA wyniosła czworo astronautów w kierunku Księżyca.
Misja Artemis II to nie tylko powrót ludzkości w głęboki kosmos po 54 latach przerwy, ale też – co zauważyli bystrzy fani nowych technologii – nieoficjalne, iście kosmiczne obchody 50. urodzin Apple.
New iPhones are being packed into the suits of the Artemis II Crew!
There is something very familiar about the iPhone look that will make the Moon feel accessible, we are literally going to see the lunar surface through the same lens we use to capture our own lives every day. pic.twitter.com/sDDM5NSRMX
— Owen Sparks (@OwenSparks) April 1, 2026
Ziemia drży, Orion leci w kosmos
Start nastąpił dokładnie o 00:35 czasu polskiego (środa, 18:35 czasu wschodniego) z historycznego kompleksu startowego 39B w Centrum Kosmicznym im. Kennedy’ego na Florydzie. Potężna rakieta Space Launch System (SLS) o wysokości 98 metrów wygenerowała 39,1 miliona niutonów ciągu, oficjalnie przyćmiewając legendarne maszyny Saturn V z programu Apollo.
Na szczycie tej imponującej konstrukcji, wewnątrz statku Orion, zasiadła czteroosobowa załoga:
- Reid Wiseman (50 lat) – dowódca misji, kapitan Marynarki Wojennej USA.
- Victor Glover – pilot statku.
- Christina Koch – specjalistka misji.
- Jeremy Hansen – kanadyjski astronauta, reprezentujący Kanadyjską Agencję Kosmiczną (CSA).
Zaledwie kilka minut po starcie, przelatując nad Oceanem Atlantyckim, dowódca zameldował z kokpitu z niesamowitym spokojem: „Mamy piękny wschód Księżyca. Zmierzamy prosto na niego”.
Kosmiczny jubileusz z nadgryzionym jabłkiem
Start Artemis II zbiega się z wyjątkową datą dla branży technologicznej. Równo 50 lat temu, 1 kwietnia 1976 roku, Steve Jobs i Steve Wozniak założyli firmę Apple. Jak zauważają rozemocjonowani komentatorzy na platformie X (w tym m.in. znany obserwator branży Owen Sparks), trudno o lepsze uświetnienie tego jubileuszu.
Na pokładzie statku kosmicznego zmierzającego w stronę Księżyca znalazły się urządzenia z iOS – w tym iPhone’y i iPady. Technologie konsumenckie Apple już wcześniej brały udział w testach interfejsów (np. w ramach projektu Callisto podczas bezzałogowej misji Artemis I), a dziś na dobre wpisały się w krajobraz współczesnej eksploracji kosmosu. Choć Orion posiada klasyczne, fizyczne kontrolery dla pilota, integracja nowoczesnych tabletów i smartfonów pomaga astronautom w komunikacji i zarządzaniu zadaniami w sposób, o jakim w czasach misji Apollo mogliśmy tylko czytać w literaturze science fiction.
Dziewięć dni, które przejdą do historii
Warto podkreślić, że Artemis II to misja testowa i załoga nie wyląduje jeszcze na Srebrnym Globie (to zadanie powierzono misji Artemis IV w 2028 roku). Astronauci wykonają przelot wokół Księżyca, testując systemy transportowe i podtrzymywania życia.
Oto kluczowe liczby i etapy tej misji:
- 406 840 km od Ziemi – na taką odległość odlecą astronauci. Nastąpi to w poniedziałek, 6 kwietnia. Nikt w dotychczasowej historii ludzkości nie znalazł się tak daleko od naszej planety.
- Niewidoczna strona Księżyca – załoga zobaczy na własne oczy obszary, które dotąd eksplorowały głównie roboty i sondy. Będą weryfikować „gołym okiem” to, co dotychczas widzieliśmy tylko na zdjęciach z satelitów.
- Ręczne sterowanie – pilot Victor Glover ręcznie poprowadzi statek Orion, zbliżając się do odrzuconego górnego stopnia rakiety SLS na odległość zaledwie 10 metrów, w celu przetestowania zwrotności i reakcji statku.
- Prędkość wejścia: 40 000 km/h – wykorzystując asystę grawitacyjną Księżyca, Orion rozpędzi się do około 11 kilometrów na sekundę, zanim uderzy w ziemską atmosferę.
- 10 kwietnia – tego dnia planowane jest wodowanie u wybrzeży Kalifornii.
Stawka wyższa niż kiedykolwiek
Dla NASA, która przez dwie dekady zainwestowała w program Artemis blisko 100 miliardów dolarów, ten start to ostateczny sprawdzian technologiczny. Agencja znajduje się w otwartym wyścigu kosmicznym z Chinami, a powodzenie obecnego lotu szeroko otwiera drzwi dla planowanych lądowników księżycowych od firm Elona Muska (SpaceX) i Jeffa Bezosa (Blue Origin).
Klamka zapadła. Era powrotu na Księżyc rozpoczęła się na naszych oczach.
#50UrodzinyApple #Apple #ArtemisII #eksploracjaKosmosu #iPhoneWKosmosie #Księżyc #NASA #SpaceLaunchSystem #statekOrion #steveJobs