Author: Scott Ortkiese

The Fall: A Short Story

The largest IPO in history was six weeks old when the sky began to fail. A short story in Ford Somerville Ford’s voice, set on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, the night the American AI operating layer went dark for the first time.

The Ruins: A Short Story

The Ruins short story by Scott Ortkiese. Friday, September 24, 2027, in the hours after the American operating layer has gone dark. A seventy year old writer in Houston keeps a Piketty ledger for his granddaughter in Boulder.

The Bailout Is Already Written: A Short Course on Private Credit, the AI Bubble, and the Life Insurance Trap Set for the American Taxpayer

How Apollo, Blackstone, KKR, and Ares bought the life insurance industry, financed the AI buildout with your annuity, and pre-wrote a 44-state taxpayer bailout.

Hey Governor Abbott, Don’t Fall for Musk’s Terafab Bamboozling of Texans: Here’s the real story, and it ain’t that pretty at all unless you’re part of the con

SpaceX’s own S-1 says Terafab has no binding commitments, no financial terms, and no obligation on Tesla or Intel to remain, before the Grimes County school abatements are countersigned.

Who’s Afraid of Big, Bad Sayed?

AIPAC and its allies spent more than $60 million calling Abdul El-Sayed dangerous. Here is the complete file that money produced, and why Michigan rejected it.

Never a Winning Strategy: Shoot and Bomb Everything from a Bully Pulpit

The United States is losing wars in Iran and Ukraine that draw down the same interceptor stockpile, the same negotiators, and the same public treasury.

American AI Domination? Not So Fast.

US Tech Oligarchs, Bankers, and Lawyers Fed Their Greed with a Closed-Source Shakedown. China Built the Alternative.

Not an AI Cold War: Rather, A Market Rotation in Favor of China.

How U.S. Policy and Greed Broke America’s AI Empire in Twelve Months

There Is No Ukrainian Victory Left to Win

Even declaring a “Pyrrhic Victory” would flatter the outcome

Американский пузырь искусственного интеллекта лишён смысла. Каждый его участник это знает. И тем не менее он раздувается. Почему?

Комната, в которой одобряется сделка, это та же комната, в которой демонтируется американская империя.