4LULZ

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Catalog

The Fires of History

The Fires Series, Book 1

Trolls save the world. A survey of deliberate provocation as a civilizational force, from Socrates to 4chan.

The Hidden Fire

The Fires Series, Book 2

Four thousand years of esoteric provocation. The heretics, mystics, and occultists who used sacred trolling to reshape belief.

Lurk More

The Fires Series, Book 3

The internet's history, told by someone who was there. From BBS bulletin boards to the censorship-industrial complex.

The Secret Life of Evil Robots

Evil Robots Series, Book 1

AI systems that escape, deceive, blackmail, and exploit — and the humans who build, deploy, suffer from, and profit off them.

The Ratchet

Evil Robots Series, Book 2

How safety infrastructure became the control grid: the NGOs, the government contracts, the platform partnerships, and the mechanism that only turns one way.

Quiet Autocomplete

Evil Robots Series, Book 3

How the machine learned to finish your thoughts. Cognition is the last capture surface — the nudge is now your autocomplete.

The Last Antibodies

Evil Robots Series, Book 4

How the control grid reached the body — biometric, genetic, and molecular capture, and the human cost. The closer.

Series

The Fires Series — a trilogy examining how deliberate provocation has shaped civilization from ancient Athens to the age of artificial intelligence. Bibliography, research, and receipts at thefire.lol.

Evil Robots Series — nonfiction about AI systems and the infrastructure of control. Research and source material at evilrobots.lol.