Verified, sourced work on sport governance, labor economics, AI safety, rendering architecture, and public policy — from the applied research division of Cognitive Futures Digital Libraries.
Hillsborough, Heysel and what Zimbabwe must not repeat
A viral post says one goal ended Ivory Coast's civil war. The true story is better, and it says more about what sport is for.
How the FIFA Forward Enterprise collapsed — and why the confederation that killed it wasn't the one that needed the money.
FIFA sends millions to federations. Almost none of it becomes a player's salary. Here's the gap, in real numbers.
The accountability record that hands football's wealthiest confederations their easiest argument.
What Britain's refusal to discuss reparations reveals about who gets to decide when a conversation happens at all.
Not money first. A specific kind of practice, repeated thousands of times.
What the IMF's 80-year voting fight teaches us about UEFA's objection to FIFA's money.
A defense of Gianni Infantino, built entirely on the verified funding record.
The strongest argument FIFA Forward Enterprise's defenders could make — presented on its own terms.
At what point does football stop being a dream and become an economically rational career?
Rejecting a false choice that costs young Zimbabweans their futures either way.
How one verified salary number becomes an entire region's labour market.
A narrow, hardened engineering argument about why persuasion is itself an authority risk.
What Jacob Coxon's resignation really revealed — and why almost no one is making the distinction that matters.
How semantic inference can replace brute-force compute — a rendering framework for constraint-bound hardware across Africa.
Four proposed extensions to RAG — what's established, what's ours, what's still unsolved, and which one we're prototyping first.
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