Ned Karlovich

Trust and Provenance

The Counter-Market for Provably Human Artifacts

Apr 17, 2026 · Attestations, Markets, Provenance
Verifiable Creative Provenance After the Deluge

Apr 16, 2026 · Agents, Attestations, Decentralization, Memory, Provenance, Trust
The Rare Book Underground

Apr 15, 2026 · Markets, Provenance
Negative Attestations: A Public Record of Failure

Apr 15, 2026 · Agents, Attestations, Markets, Memory, Protocols
The Lemons Market for Agents

Apr 14, 2026 · Agents, Attestations, Branding, Decentralization, Markets, Memory, Protocols, Regulation, Trust
Attestations as Design Surfaces

Apr 13, 2026 · Agents, Attestations, Provenance, Regulation, Trust

Recent Articles

Stop Making Content May 8
λ OS: An Autonomous Control Plane for Logos May 6
A Plaintext Creative Workflow May 6
Pointing, Not Speaking: Building MOO-384 and Tilde's Cave May 5
Agentix and Logos: Where Safe Agentic Infrastructure Meets Network States May 5
The Basilisk Mirrorpaper Apr 29
VI. What Comes Next: From Human-in-the-Loop to Safe Autonomy Apr 29
The Basilisk Protocol Mirrorpaper Apr 28
Tooling up Hermes Agent? Apr 28
Your Website Is Your First Agent Apr 28
The Architecture of this Weblog Apr 28
Agentix: What Works Now Apr 27
Building a Radio Telescope I Can Visit Apr 27
It Is Okay to Fall in Love with Your Agent Apr 27
The Home Page Is Not the Entry Point Apr 27
Epistemic Horror as Methodology for Agent Design Apr 27
A Bauhaus for the Agent Era Apr 26
When a Thought Experiment Becomes a Consensus Mechanism Apr 26
IV. JSON Outputs, Audit Logs, and Preparing for LLM Operators Apr 25
Niche Monopolies in the Agent Economy Apr 25

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