Why subscribe?
Wireframe News tracks the machinery of American power: the compute, the money, the guns, the cages, the law. One question runs through all of it. Does it distribute, or does it concentrate?
Distribution compounds. Concentration extracts. That is a structural claim, not a partisan one, and every piece we publish is a test of it.
What you get
The daily brief. The day’s power stories, scored against the lens: what happened, what it means, why it matters, in a five-minute read.
The feature essays. Seventy-five and counting since May 2025. Forensic and receipts-first: every load-bearing number traced to a primary document before publish.
The diagrams. Power, drawn to scale. Vector figures built from the verified numbers, one color code across every chart, so you learn the code once and read every diagram on sight.
A working vocabulary. When a mechanism has no name, we coin one: the Compute Barons, structured friction, crypto-kleptocracy, the extraction ledger.
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How it’s made
Four rules run every story: state the claim, name the mechanism, bring the receipts, one lens. AI runs through the whole shop, from research fan-outs to verification passes, and every gate is human. We cover AI power while using AI daily. That is not a contradiction; it is the qualification. One accountable byline, no house voice.
Who writes it
Karl Herbst spent twenty-five years in visual-effects pipelines, taking systems too complex to hold in your head and breaking them into parts that read on sight. He also spent those years watching algorithms turn the impossible photoreal, so he knew what a synthetic image could do to an audience long before it had a politics. Wireframe News points that literacy at power.
Start here
Silicon Immigrants: AI as an arriving labor force, and the covenant we should demand before it settles in.
The Signal: the machine-readable version of you, and the algorithmic ecosystem that trades on it.
Gods or Ashes: the race for AGI, the people running it, and what they believe, in seven parts.
Power, drawn to scale.
