<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-08T22:13:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Bogdan’s public essays</title><subtitle>Various public essays and ad hoc text snippets</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Don’t Use Ventoy</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-04-08-Do-not-use-Ventoy" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Don’t Use Ventoy" /><published>2026-04-08T22:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-08T22:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/Do-not-use-Ventoy</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ventoy's convenience is not worth the trust and supply-chain risk of unauditable boot-level binary blobs.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Hidden Tax of the fbclid</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-04-06-Hidden-Tax-of-fbclid" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Hidden Tax of the fbclid" /><published>2026-04-06T21:35:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-06T21:35:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/Hidden-Tax-of-fbclid</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How ad tracking parameters like fbclid externalize storage, energy, and privacy costs onto the public web.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">AI: Industrializing our Failure of Imagination</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-03-26-AI-Industrializing-Failure-of-Imagination" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="AI: Industrializing our Failure of Imagination" /><published>2026-03-26T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-03-26T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/AI-Industrializing-Failure-of-Imagination</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why generative AI can scale confidence faster than competence, eroding the evaluative friction that keeps complex systems resilient.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Modern Battery Surprises: Power in Disguise</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-02-27-Quirky-Batteries" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Modern Battery Surprises: Power in Disguise" /><published>2026-02-27T17:30:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-02-27T17:30:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/Quirky-Batteries</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A journey through battery evolution—from zinc-carbon dinosaurs to lithium workhorses, and the bizarre, dangerous chemistries hiding inside standard AA shells.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Chron: A Universal Clock for the Galaxy</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-02-14-The-Chron" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Chron: A Universal Clock for the Galaxy" /><published>2026-02-14T18:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-02-14T18:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/The-Chron</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why the mean lifetime of a free neutron—approximately 14.6 minutes—is the perfect universal unit of time: a fundamental physical constant that aligns with human attention spans, narrative structure, and biological rhythms. Exploring the Neutron Standard and the Systeme Galactique, a measurement framework that unifies time, length, pressure, and temperature through the constants of physics and the triple point of water.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Final Correction: Geopolitical Realignment at the Intersection of Demographic Collapse and Planetary Limits</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-02-05-The-Final-Correction" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Final Correction: Geopolitical Realignment at the Intersection of Demographic Collapse and Planetary Limits" /><published>2026-02-05T11:27:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-02-05T11:27:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/The-Final-Correction</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A systems analysis of the structural rupture facing the global order: the synchronization of demographic collapse and planetary boundaries forcing the transition from cooperative globalization to fortress neo-mercantilism. Examining how the US, China, Russia, and the EU are navigating the end of the growth paradigm through strategic hoarding, supply chain weaponization, and the fragmentation of the financial order.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">A Structural Argument Against the Genocide Charge in Gaza</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-01-31-Argument-Against-Gaza-Genocide" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="A Structural Argument Against the Genocide Charge in Gaza" /><published>2026-01-31T10:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-01-31T10:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/Argument-Against-Gaza-Genocide</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Stripping away the rhetoric: A logical stress-test of the genocide accusation in Gaza. Analyzing the 'Moon Landing' problem of conspiracy, the strategic logic of terrain clearance, and the paradox of humanitarian pauses.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Crumbling of the Red Firewall</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-01-18-Crumbling-of-the-Red-Firewall" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Crumbling of the Red Firewall" /><published>2026-01-18T08:27:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-01-18T08:27:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/Crumbling-of-the-Red-Firewall</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Analyzing the decade-long relationship between the Republican Party and Donald Trump, examining how the GOP's containment strategy failed and culminated in the 2026 Greenland crisis—a diplomatic rupture that forced the institutional GOP to reclaim constitutional authority and actively oppose the President on the world stage.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">LLM Plays Text Adventures</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-01-16-LLM-Plays-Text-Adventures" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="LLM Plays Text Adventures" /><published>2026-01-16T16:11:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-01-16T16:11:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/LLM-Plays-Text-Adventures</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A tiny experiment: run classic Z-machine interactive fiction through a real interpreter (Jericho/Frotz) and let an LLM propose the next command.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Leaving ChatGPT: The How</title><link href="https://gutza.github.io/public/2026-01-15-Goodbye-ChatGPT" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Leaving ChatGPT: The How" /><published>2026-01-15T18:20:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-01-15T18:20:00+00:00</updated><id>https://gutza.github.io/public/Goodbye-ChatGPT</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How to export your ChatGPT data: download your OpenAI chat history (and media notes), use the official data export, and my basic GitHub chat exporter script as a backup.]]></summary></entry></feed>