Andy Beach's Engines of Change

Andy Beach's Engines of Change

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The Canon Problem
World models, persistent worlds, and the new work of deciding what counts
Aug 16 • Andy Beach
What the Badge Buys
Spotify, Anthropic, and Meta just showed that provenance is a distribution decision
Aug 14 • Andy Beach
The Succession
Persistence, Part IV
Aug 9 • Andy Beach
When AI Stops Watching
Media over QUIC could turn AI from an observer of the video pipeline into a publisher inside it
Aug 7 • Andy Beach
The Long Memory
Persistence, Part III
Aug 2 • Andy Beach

July 2026

The Model Is the Cheap Part
Weights go free. Control moves to the conditions that govern them.
Jul 31 • Andy Beach
The Drag
Persistence, Part II
Jul 26 • Andy Beach
The Record and the Decision
The redirect that saved the piece and the re-encode that shrank the file sit next to each other in the chain, both correctly signed.
Jul 24 • Andy Beach
What Carries Forward
Persistence, Part I
Jul 19 • Andy Beach
The Receipts Layer
A breach, a backlash, a bill, and a standard converge on the same missing record.
Jul 17 • Andy Beach
Video as a Data Type
A reference architecture for AI-era media
Jul 12 • Andy Beach
Priced Apart
Comcast, ITV, and Xbox came apart in the same eight days and the market is sorting assets by kind.
Jul 10 • Andy Beach
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