The Word

Thirty-nine articles in four languages

Careful treatments of what is usually written in slogans: the right to be forgotten against the right to last, who inherits a digital person, why permanent memory needs a right to contradict yourself.

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What we write about

Not the future in general, but questions with no ready answer today.

The right to be forgotten against the right to last

Article 17 of the GDPR demands erasure. An immutable ledger answers that it cannot. Two laws in force that cannot both be right.

Who inherits a digital person

A person dies, their double keeps answering in their voice. Whose is it? Inheritance law has no such object.

The right to be inconsistent

At three in the morning a person says one thing, at nine another, and both are true. A system that remembers everything must not hold the past against them.

“Nobody has ever been remembered whole. Not once in all of history. Everyone was remembered in pieces, by people who were busy.” CODE: SIGNAL, “Every Word You Ever Said”

How this is written

One rule, and it is strict.

Primary sources only

Article number, date of ruling, size of fine — each checked against the original document, never a retelling.

A sceptic checks every fact

A separate pass hunts for invented figures and distorted quotes. What it finds is fixed before publication.

Where there is no answer, we say so

If regulators have taken no position, the article says that plainly instead of pretending the matter is settled.