New Wiring

Collision Detector has picked up speed this year, and a few things have been added or rewired along the way. A short inventory, so you know what exists.

Two series, or threads, now have their own addresses. The risk-maxxing essays — five parts, from The Era of Risk-Maxxing through The Ratchet — are collected at /tag/risk-maxxing/, along with the Slate Money conversation about them. The new series on protocol communities, which opened last week with NewHills to Die On, lives at /tag/protocol-communities/. If you arrive mid-series, those pages are the way back to the start. There's now a Threads index on the home page collecting these and other groupings — including Civilizational Exit, a short strand on end times as asset class that will also continue as ideas arise.

Afternotes. A newer format: short audio notes — one voice (mine), minimal editing, short bumper — published under Conversations. Two exist so far. The these are for subscribers only, but most of the site remains open. Just a little extra for taking the time to sign up. There may be more things like this ahead.

A new standing tag: Tradecraft. Methods, habits, and working objects — the occasional pieces about how this kind of work actually gets done, from murder walls to design fiction read back thirteen years later. Several older reflections on practice now live there too.

Guests are now literal. The site description has said "by Scott Smith and guests" for a while; Susan Cox-Smith made it true in June with Criminal Neglect, on Caroline Fraser's Murderland. More to come, occasionally.

You can follow Collision Detector from the fediverse. If you're on Mastodon or anything else that speaks ActivityPub, search @index@collisiondetector.com and new posts will arrive in your feed. Email subscription works as it always has; RSS never went anywhere either.

The furniture moved. Reviews, Conversations, and the pre-Collision Detector Archive each have their own sections now, reachable from the top of every page, so the essays and the rest keep out of each other's way.

Next up: part two of the protocol communities series — a map of which formations stay harmless and which bite.

Thanks for reading. More soon.