Expanded definition of MAC Addresses from Page 119 – The Weight of Technology If you’ve spent any time thinking about online privacy, you’ve probably heard of IP addresses. They feel obvious: numbers that represent you on the internet. But there’s another identifier most people never see, never configure, and rarely think about—an identifier that quietly…

Expanding on VPN definition from page 119 – The Weight of Technology A VPN is often sold like an invisibility cloak for the internet. It isn’t. Used well, it does meaningfully increase your privacy and security. Used blindly, it can hand all your trust to a single company you know almost nothing about. Let’s unpack…

By Jeremy Abram | JeremyAbram.net Most people feel it.Almost nobody can name it. That strange mental noise.The shrinking attention span.The emotional spikes.The subtle exhaustion.The drifting sense of self.The constant pressure to keep up, stay visible, stay connected, stay responsive. It’s the quiet weight of modern technology. And for years, I’ve been writing about that weight…

When time fractures permanently, the only remaining battleground is the story of how it happened. Introduction: The Last Scar of a Broken Timeline In the Shattered World (Part 20), time is no longer shared: There is no longer one “now,”no unified identity,no coherent causality,no global truth. Yet humans—and machines—still need something to anchor meaning. If…

When the center fails and no new one emerges, civilization must learn to live in a world where time is no longer shared—and reality exists only in pieces. Introduction: After the Collapse, There Is No Dawn In Part 19, shared reality disintegrated. What comes next is not recovery.It is normalization of the impossible. The world…

When rhythms fracture, and the Chronoforge can no longer negotiate the beats between worlds, the idea of a single reality dissolves. Introduction: The Day the Center Failed After the Great Driftquake (Part 18), the world knew the Drift Wars had crossed a threshold. Before the quake: But after the quake: The world did not collapse…

When time can be shaped, aligned, stretched, and split, conflict isn’t about weapons—it’s about rhythm. And when rhythms collide, reality itself begins to tear. Introduction: The First Signs of Drift The Temporal Factions (Part 17) divided the world into ideological time-zones: Each zone embodied its temporal philosophy.Each shaped time differently.Each believed their rhythm was the…

Once time becomes a craft, every group wants to shape it. And no two groups agree. Introduction: The First Quiet War of the Polytemporal Era In Part 16, the Chronoforge transformed time from a rigid constraint into a malleable medium—a programmable substance. But as the world awakens to the creative power of polytemporality,a new question…

Once time becomes plural and adaptive, it ceases to be a background condition. It becomes a material—a medium—something that can be shaped. Introduction: The Shift From Rhythm to Architecture Part 15 introduced polytemporality:a world where multiple temporal layers coexist—physical, machine, human, contextual, and personal timeall woven into an adaptable system. But polytemporality alone is not…

After the cure and the architects, time ceases to be singular. A new world emerges—not one rhythm, but many. Introduction: The End of the Monotemporal Era For centuries—both digital and analog—we lived inside a single beat: This monotemporal world was efficient, but brittle.When it drifted, the entire ecosystem drifted.When it broke, the entire world felt…