AOF ONLINE ISSUE 002

AOF ONLINE – ISSUE 002 5 June 2026

Eight hours. That's how long someone got to sell a game called King Of The Hollow Circuit on Steam before it stopped existing.

I won't pretend the speed was luck. The domain went into my account, the complaint went to Valve, and the product went dark — same day, before most people had finished their coffee. The trademark exists because I did the unglamorous work of registering it, and the work paid off in the only way that matters: quietly, completely, and without a single phone call I had to take on camera.

But here's the part I didn't expect. The infringer didn't just lose. He got conscripted. Whoever thought King Of The Hollow Circuit was a clever name handed me a villain — Nigel Mullet, KING-PROCESS 01, now permanent canon in the universe he tried to ride. That's the thing about a world built to absorb what reaches for it. Take a swing at it and you don't damage it; you become a load-bearing part of it. He's lore now. He can't get out.

So that's the trophy on this week's wall. The rest of the issue is the machinery underneath the win: Instagram purging fifteen-year-old accounts with no appeal and no apology, the ableism buried in the demand that everything carry an AI label, and over on .org, a clear-eyed look at what these models actually cost the planet — not the panic version, the measured one.

Same protocol as always. No face, no apology, no permission asked.

Let's go.

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