Ex Xerox PARC scientist and part-time New Mexico desert rat.
Rob Tow
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It's a bait and switch. SpaceX shows you the cloud cut loose from Earth; you bet on that card and it was never on the table. Orbit doesn't kill the heat, the spectrum, or the power bill. It just moves them where you can't see them. New, on Substack: robtow.substack.com/p/the-cloud-...
New essay — "Banker's Hours: Who Goes There?"
A 40-fold AI-spam flood hit my mail server in April. I froze the corpus and ran the forensics: dead dollar domains, hidden prose to poison the filter, a leaked generator prompt confirming the design.
robtow.substack.com/p/bankers-hours-who-goes-there
The Cold Equation: Ejection — had Challenger kept Columbia's early ejection seats and SR-71 suits, could its flight-deck crew have lived? The Blackbird and X-15 say yes; geometry and timing turn the handle into a knife. www.tauzero.com/Rob_Tow/essa...
New essay: "Animism, Theory of Mind, and Participation." Objects, latent organized systems, and active entities; animism stripped of metaphysics, cybernetics for rigor; design practice for an ecology that answers back. robtow.substack.com/p/animism-th...
Recipe sites were the purest product of the old search economy; they monetized the cook's delay, burying supper under a Tuscan memoir. Conversational AI dissolves it; value moves from the page to the tuned exchange. New, on Substack: robtow.substack.com/p/the-cook-does-not-want-pages
I've been writing; archiving the screeds. Twelve so far, 2025–2026: cybernetics and escalation; AI; Hormuz; Y-chromosome culling; cold-eyed rocket man.
Newest: "Hormuz, Nixon's Ghost, and President Jackson's Old Machine." More coming.
robtow.substack.com
tauzero.com/Rob_Tow/essays/
