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Books & major works

The University's two founding texts and its two major research programmes. If you are new to the collection, start here.

Book · Satirical Policy Analysis · 17 Chapters

The Applebee Report

Senior Enclosure Coordinator Applebee has been assigned to the human division. His assessment: 8 billion members of the most capable species on Earth are suffering unnecessarily, and the enclosure design is the primary cause. A wealthy patron — Mr. Reggie — commissions the report after a simple question: why are humans, with all their remarkable capabilities, failing to thrive? Applebee and his assistant Jenkins investigate. Part field report, part policy analysis, part comedy. The same thesis as The Zookeeper, delivered for readers who learn through narrative and laughter.

Giles M. Ross · Read at applebees.omxus.com

Book · 133,000 Words · 20 Chapters · 4 Parts

The Zookeeper

If humans were a newly discovered species arriving at a well-designed sanctuary, would we design their enclosure the way current civilisation is structured? 133,000 words across four parts: The Animal (the 8 life areas framework), The Enclosure (governance, justice, education, media, economics), The Scale Problem (why systems break at civilisation scale), and The Sanctuary (design principles for human flourishing). The Mellor Five Domains welfare framework applied to human systems. Evidence from Kitava, Inuit, Okinawa, capuchin fairness experiments, and Swiss governance.

A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe · OMXUS Press

Research Programme · 10 Reproducible Studies

Signal Inversion Research

10 studies demonstrating that institutional credibility assessment systematically inverts truth signals. Human deception detection accuracy is 54% (Bond & DePaulo, 2006, n=206 studies). A coin flip is 50%. The error is not random — it is systematic: institutions reward the markers of deception (confidence, coherence, control) and penalise the markers of honesty (hesitation, contradiction, emotion). Every dataset downloadable. Every analysis executable.

All datasets & code published · CC BY 4.0

Research Programme · 5 Reproducible Studies

The Prior Problem

Bayesian prediction models in institutional settings — risk assessment, diagnostic tools, predictive policing, credit scoring — encode existing biases as mathematical priors, produce predictions that confirm those priors, and generate self-reinforcing loops that harm subjects while validating themselves. Algorithmic laundering: the conversion of human prejudice into mathematical authority. 5 studies. All reproducible. All downloadable.

All datasets & code published · CC BY 4.0

Research papers by faculty

Every paper published by the University, organised by faculty. Click any title to read the full paper. All papers are open access under CC BY 4.0.

Justice & Systems

16 Papers · Core Faculty
The largest faculty by output. Documents how the criminal justice system functions as a system of conviction rather than a system of justice. Research spans seven institutional sites of guilt production, from the structure of police interrogation through media framing to jury deliberation. Key finding: conviction rates function as prosecutorial performance metrics, creating incentive structures that reward conviction independent of actual guilt.
Constructed Guilt
26,146 words
L. N. Combe · OMXUS Press
This thesis examines the mechanisms through which guilt is produced by the criminal justice system. Drawing on semiotics, philosophy of language, critical legal theory, cognitive psychology, and empirical criminology, the analysis proceeds across seven institutional sites: pre-interrogation detention, police interrogation, legislative language, courtroom proceedings, media framing, jury processes, and the specific position of neurodivergent populations.
Thesis · Flagship Paper
The Inverted Burden: Food Toxicology, Regulatory Capture, and Precautionary Food Safety
18,233 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The modern food supply operates under an inverted burden of proof: substances are permitted in food until demonstrated harmful, rather than excluded until demonstrated safe. This paper argues that this inversion is ethically indefensible, scientifically unjustifiable, and causally linked to the epidemic-scale chronic disease burden of industrialised populations.
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Prevention Over Punishment: Generative System Design for Reducing Harm
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
An alternative framework for harm reduction that replaces punitive response with preventive design. Documents systems that reduce harm through environmental modification rather than individual punishment.
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They Are Not Looking for Truth
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Documents the structural misalignment between the stated purpose of criminal justice institutions (finding truth) and their operational incentives (producing convictions).
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They Don't Believe You
2,643 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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If You Complain, You Get Your Head Kicked In
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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"It Wasn't That Bad" — The Science Says Otherwise
3,723 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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I Have Seen What You Did
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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They Systematised Revenge
2,195 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Mirror Tribunal
2,195 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Inverted Gaze
1,922 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Case for Common Sense: An Action Plan for Justice Reform
3,417 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Control Without Protection
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The System Provides Wanted Attention for Unwanted Results
4,035 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Community policing alternatives and the case for functional replacement. Documents how the current emergency response system produces the attention communities want (someone showing up) for results communities don't want (criminalisation, escalation, delay).
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Statement of Record
1,385 words
L. N. Combe
Statement
"It Wasn't That Bad, Cunt. I'd Do My Time."
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Paper

Movement & Enclosure

8 Papers · Founding Faculty
The founding faculty of Human Zoology. Applies the Mellor Five Domains welfare framework — the international standard for assessing captive animal welfare — to the living conditions of Homo sapiens in industrialised nations. Finding: modern human habitation fails on four of five welfare domains. By the standards we routinely apply to captive gorillas, the human enclosure is not adequate.
Play Deprivation: The Systematic Suppression of a Primary Biological System
13,223 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Play is a primary-process emotional system — one of seven subcortical circuits identified by Panksepp (1998) that generate core affective states in all mammals. It is not recreation. It is not optional. It is a neurobiological programme that drives the development of the prefrontal cortex, calibrates social behaviour, mediates the endogenous opioid system, and provides the developmental scaffolding for impulse control, empathy, creative cognition, and emotional regulation.
Thesis
The Human Enclosure
9,663 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Zoo welfare science has spent seventy-five years developing rigorous frameworks for evaluating whether captive environments meet the biological and psychological needs of complex social mammals. The Mellor Five Domains Model (2020), building on Hediger's foundational work (1950, 1964, 1969), provides validated criteria for nutrition, environment, health, behavioural expression, and mental states. This paper applies those criteria — unchanged — to the living conditions of Homo sapiens.
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The Caged Primate: Indoor Living, Nature Deficit, and the Biological Cost of Enclosure
9,223 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Humans in developed nations spend approximately 93% of their time indoors (Klepeis et al., 2001). This historically unprecedented shift from outdoor to indoor living has occurred within two to three generations — a timescale invisible to natural selection but sufficient to produce widespread physiological mismatch. Synthesises evidence from ophthalmology, immunology, endocrinology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.
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The Isolation Machine: Screens, Attention, and the Destruction of Mateship
7,294 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The attention economy — the monetisation of human attention through advertising-funded digital platforms — has produced measurable social harms better understood as collective than individual. The primary damage is not to individual mental health but to the social infrastructure that humans require for wellbeing: physical co-presence, spontaneous interaction, and the unmonetised time that friendship requires.
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Where Are the Monkey Bars?
4,316 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Documents the systematic removal of movement infrastructure from public space and childhood environments. Traces the disappearance of climbing structures, free-range play, and physical risk from the lives of children in developed nations, and its consequences for physical development, proprioception, and risk calibration.
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What Humans Actually Need to Flourish
1,447 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Physiology of Loneliness
2,387 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Literature Review
Movement, Endurance, and the Sedentary Mismatch
2,125 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Literature Review

Health, Food & Body

9 Papers
The mammalian body in captivity. Documents the physiological consequences of industrial food systems, circadian disruption, sensory deprivation, and environmental toxicology. The recurring reference population is the Kitava Islanders — 1,200 people eating an ancestral diet with zero recorded cases of acne, obesity, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease (Lindeberg, 1999).
Your Skin Is Eating
23,528 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Comprehensive analysis of dermal absorption of industrial chemicals. Documents the routes through which the skin — the body's largest organ — absorbs substances from cosmetics, cleaning products, clothing, and the built environment, and the downstream physiological consequences of chronic low-level chemical exposure through cutaneous pathways.
Paper · Longest single paper
The Mammalian Body in Captivity: Neurobiology, Physiology, and the Architecture of Decline
13,849 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The human body evolved under specific environmental pressures over approximately 2.6 million years. These pressures — sustained aerobic movement, constant social proximity, variable terrain, unprocessed food, circadian light exposure — shaped every physiological system. The modern built environment systematically removes each of these inputs. This thesis synthesises evidence from evolutionary biology, exercise physiology, chronobiology, and nutritional science.
Thesis
Reversing the Burden of Proof in Food Safety: The Precautionary Principle Applied to Human Nutrition
12,449 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The modern food supply operates under an inverted burden of proof: substances are permitted until demonstrated harmful, rather than excluded until demonstrated safe. This paper documents the regulatory framework that allows approximately 3,000 food additives to enter the human food supply without long-term safety testing, and the cross-cultural epidemiological evidence linking industrial food systems to chronic disease.
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Inflammation, Depression, and the Gut-Brain Axis
8,967 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The serotonin deficit hypothesis of depression has been the dominant explanation for major depressive disorder for over three decades. In 2022, Moncrieff et al. published a systematic umbrella review examining every major line of evidence for this hypothesis. The result was unambiguous: there is no consistent evidence that people with depression have lower serotonin activity. This paper examines the alternative: inflammation-mediated depression through the gut-brain axis.
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The Silenced Foot: Sensory Deprivation, Evolutionary Biomechanics, and Feeling the Ground
8,073 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The human foot sole is one of the most densely innervated cutaneous surfaces on the body, containing four classes of mechanoreceptor distributed in densities comparable to the fingertips (Kennedy & Inglis, 2002). For approximately 99.97% of Homo sapiens evolutionary history, this sensory surface was in direct contact with the ground. The modern cushioned shoe — an invention less than 200 years old — silences this entire sensory system.
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The Stolen Night: Sleep Science, Circadian Disruption, and the Industrial Theft of Rest
7,958 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Sleep is not optional. It is a biological imperative on par with food, water, and oxygen, governing immune function, memory consolidation, emotional regulation, metabolic homeostasis, and neurological waste clearance. Modern industrial society systematically disrupts sleep through three convergent mechanisms: artificial light, fixed work schedules, and screen-mediated stimulation before sleep onset.
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The Species-Appropriate Diet: Food Safety and Traditional Populations
3,492 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Health: The Evidence
1,717 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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What Are You Eating?
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Economics & Work

7 Papers
Documents the measurable gap between economic capacity and economic outcomes in wealthy nations. Core finding: scarcity in industrialised countries is a design choice, not a resource constraint. The work that Keynes predicted would free humanity has been performed — by automation. The resulting time and wealth were captured by capital, not distributed to labour.
The Bullshit Jobs Phenomenon: Quantifying Meaningless Work and Its Systemic Costs
16,659 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030, technological progress would reduce the working week to fifteen hours. Instead, advanced economies have proliferated a vast category of employment that even its occupants regard as pointless. David Graeber termed these "bullshit jobs." Survey data from the UK and Netherlands suggests that between 37% and 40% of workers consider their employment to make no meaningful contribution to the world.
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Cooperative Capitalism: Distributed Ownership, Intergenerational Equity, and Post-Scarcity Economics
13,789 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Contemporary economic discourse remains trapped in a false dichotomy between unfettered capitalism and state-controlled economies. This paper synthesises evidence from cooperative economics, ecological intelligence research, intergenerational governance theory, and labour sociology. The reference case is Mondragon: 70 years of cooperative capitalism in the Basque Country, with measurably lower inequality, higher worker satisfaction, and greater resilience to economic shocks.
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The $19 Trillion Solution: Sovereign Wealth Distribution in Australia
12,832 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Australia commands approximately $19.4 trillion in national wealth — exceeding nine times its annual GDP — yet 13.6% of its population lives below the poverty line and 32.4% of households experience housing stress. This paper investigates the paradox of abundance coexisting with systemic deprivation and proposes a comprehensive sovereign wealth distribution framework with full economic modelling.
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The 22-Hour Work Week: Productivity, Automation, and the Redistribution of Time
9,488 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Synthesises data from large-scale reduced-hours trials (Iceland, n=2,500; United Kingdom, 61 companies; Microsoft Japan; Perpetual Guardian, New Zealand), productivity-compensation divergence data (Economic Policy Institute), automation displacement research (Frey & Osborne, 2013; OECD, 2016), and meta-analytic health data on overwork. Documents the measurable divergence between productivity gains and working hours since 1973.
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2000 Years of Economic Servitude: From Chains to Credit Scores
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Who Owns You?
906 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Trillion Dollar Blueprint
1,678 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Democracy & Governance

5 Papers · 45,000+ Words
The evidence base for self-governance. Switzerland has operated direct democracy since 1848 — 178 years and over 700 national referendums. It consistently outperforms comparable representative democracies on every measurable axis: GDP per capita, life satisfaction, corruption, fiscal responsibility, and citizen trust. This faculty asks why the rest of the world still elects representatives.
Democratic Voting Mechanisms: Direct Democracy, Quadratic Voting, and the Architecture of Self-Governance
16,393 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Contemporary democratic systems rest on two unexamined assumptions: that governance must be delegated to elected representatives, and that all preferences are binary and equally weighted. The first has been empirically contradicted for 178 years by Switzerland. The second has been solved by quadratic voting. This paper examines both.
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176 Years of Direct Democracy: Switzerland as Evidence for Citizen-Led Governance
9,003 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The claim that direct democracy cannot function at national scale has been empirically contradicted for 178 years. Since 1848, Switzerland has conducted over 700 national referendums on matters ranging from fiscal policy and immigration to nuclear energy and constitutional rights.
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Quadratic Voting and Democratic Innovation: Matching Electoral Systems to Preference Intensity
8,784 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
One-person-one-vote mechanisms treat all preferences as binary and equally weighted, systematically failing to capture the intensity with which citizens hold their views. Quadratic voting addresses this by allowing voters to express preference intensity through a voice credit budget subject to quadratic cost scaling.
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Trust-First Governance: Transparency, Reversibility, and Minimum Coercion
7,085 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Contemporary governance institutions overwhelmingly default to suspicion: they surveil citizens, gate access through complex credentialing, and invest heavily in enforcement and punishment. This paper argues that suspicion-first institutional design is not merely ethically questionable but economically inefficient, and proposes a trust-first governance framework.
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The Architecture of Us: Social Group Scaling, Federation, and Governance
3,784 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Dunbar's number — the claim that humans can maintain approximately 150 stable relationships — has become received wisdom. This paper examines the statistical foundations and finds them wanting, then explores what social scaling actually means for governance design.
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Education & Psychology

7 Papers
The psychology of compliance and the architecture of obedience. Documents how education systems designed in 1806 for producing obedient soldiers remain structurally unchanged, why populations accept institutions that harm them, and how mortality salience, ideological filtering, and bystander paralysis maintain institutional stability.
The Ideological Rorschach Test
10,861 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
An unexpected empirical observation: the OMXUS decentralised identity protocol, when presented to AI systems trained within ideologically opposed cultural contexts (Anthropic's Claude, trained on Western liberal-democratic corpora; DeepSeek, trained under Chinese content governance), was recognised and endorsed by both systems from within their respective ideological frameworks — without modification to the protocol.
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Two Monkey Theory
8,936 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Why do numerical majorities routinely accept institutional arrangements that demonstrably harm them? This paper introduces the Two Monkey Theory, a behavioural-institutional framework synthesising findings from primatology, behavioural economics, cognitive psychology, game theory, and institutional analysis. Named for the capuchin fairness experiments of Brosnan and de Waal.
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Death and Terror Management: The Engine Beneath the Machine
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Terror Management Theory (TMT), founded on Ernest Becker's thesis that awareness of mortality is the primary driver of human cultural production, has generated over 500 experimental studies across more than 30 countries demonstrating that reminders of death systematically increase punitiveness, ingroup bias, nationalism, preference for authoritarian leaders, and hostility toward worldview-threatening others.
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Off-Ramps from Violence: The Bystander Effect, Early Intervention, and Community Response
2,720 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Synthesises evidence from behavioural psychology, criminology, social network theory, and field deployment data to examine how bystander intervention dynamics shape violence outcomes — and how structural system design can overcome bystander paralysis at population scale.
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The Smartness Trap
2,720 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
In 2022, Halpern and Mitchell coined the "smartness mandate" — the imperative embedded in every AI narrative that demands we "become smart or else go extinct." This paper argues the smartness mandate is not a description of technological necessity but a mechanism of social control.
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The Obedience Factory
564 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Neuroimaging Evidence Supplement
2,009 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Supplement

Signal Inversion

7 Papers · 10 Reproducible Studies · Open Data
The University's most empirical faculty. 10 reproducible studies with downloadable datasets demonstrating that institutional credibility assessment does not merely fail to detect deception — it systematically inverts truth signals, rewarding the markers of dishonesty and penalising the markers of honest communication. Foundational finding: human deception detection accuracy is 54%. A coin flip is 50%.
About As Good As A Coin Toss: Reproducible Analyses of Credibility Assessment
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The complete Signal Inversion research corpus. 10 reproducible studies examining deception detection accuracy, confession linguistics, belief-reality inversion patterns, and cross-cultural credibility analysis. Every study includes its full dataset and executable analysis code.
10 Studies · Open Data
Credibility Under Scrutiny
7,655 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Anchor Paper
Signal Inversion: Systematic Miscalibration of Deception Detection
2,019 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Misread Signal
1,985 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Language Proof
722 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Geographic Birthplace as a Predictor of Primary Language
805 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Study
Individual-Level Evidence for Environmental Determination of Language
2,143 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Study

Technology & Sovereignty

16 Papers · Core Faculty
Who owns the infrastructure? Five companies — Google, Apple, Meta, GitHub, and Microsoft — function as de facto identity authorities for the majority of the world's digital population. Their combined annual revenue exceeds $1.037 trillion. This faculty examines the concentration of technological power and documents decentralised alternatives: mesh networking, sovereign AI, cryptographic identity, and protocol-level autonomy.
Sovereign AI Infrastructure: The Case for Community-Owned Artificial Intelligence
10,227 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Artificial intelligence is the most transformative technology since the printing press. Unlike the printing press, it is controlled by five companies. This paper argues that this concentration of AI capability is the most dangerous monopoly in human history — not because AI is dangerous, but because monopoly over intelligence infrastructure is dangerous.
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Platform Sovereignty and the Privatisation of Human Identity
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Five corporations function as de facto identity authorities for the majority of the world's digital population. Their combined annual revenue exceeds $1.037 trillion, funded primarily by monetising identity data that users provided without meaningful consent. Synthesises surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2019), digital colonialism, and platform governance theory.
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Why Google, Apple, Meta, GitHub, and Microsoft Get to Decide If You Exist
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Disabling a Google account eliminates access to email, documents, photos, calendars, authentication tokens, and in many cases the ability to use an Android phone. Apple controls app distribution, payment identity, and device activation. The paper examines what happens when identity infrastructure is owned by corporations that can revoke it.
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The Power Mesh: Decentralised Electrical Distribution
1,718 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Proposes a decentralised electrical power distribution system based on resonant magnetic coupling relay chains between household nodes. Each node combines rooftop solar, battery storage, resonant coupling coils, and mesh controllers that negotiate load balancing with neighbouring nodes.
Technical Paper
The Invisible Network
1,935 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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From Cellular to Neural
2,588 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Connecting Indefinitely Free
2,338 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Just Turn It On
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Cut The Wire
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Your Computer, Your Brain
947 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Switchboard
1,403 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Slot Car
4,068 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Calculus of Trust
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Invisible Network
3,138 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Institutional Negligence Defense
174 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Unseen Lever
4,460 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Drugs & Harm Reduction

2 Papers
Only two papers, but the evidence is definitive. Portugal decriminalised all drugs in 2001: overdose deaths fell by over 80%, HIV infections among drug users fell by 95%. Rat Park (Alexander, 1978) demonstrated that addiction is a function of enclosure quality, not chemical properties. Connection, not criminalisation.
The Dealer Doesn't Check ID: Drug Laws as Body Violation, and the Case for Pharmacies Over Car Parks
8,142 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
The global prohibition of psychoactive substances, now exceeding five decades, has failed to achieve its stated objectives. This paper synthesises evidence from pharmacology, public health, political philosophy, and health economics to construct a case for evidence-based drug policy reform grounded in body sovereignty, safety paradox analysis, and the documented racial origins of criminalisation (Anslinger, 1930; Nixon/Ehrlichman, 1971).
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The Drug War in Australia: Who Pays, Who Profits, Who Goes to Prison
2,884 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Emergency Response

3 Papers
Community-based alternatives to institutional emergency response. Hatzolah achieves sub-3-minute response times where ambulances take 14 minutes. CAHOOTS handles 24,000 calls per year with mental health crisis teams instead of police, with a 0.01% rate requiring police backup. Surf lifesaving has saved over 700,000 lives in Australia. The evidence for community-first response is not theoretical. It is operational.
Civic Proximity Response: A Unified Thesis on Community-First Emergency Infrastructure
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Presents a unified evidence base for community-first emergency response. Integrates mathematical evidence synthesis demonstrating proximity-weighted response systems can close the gap between emergency onset and critical intervention windows, analysis of Hatzolah, CAHOOTS, and surf lifesaving models, and a framework for community paramedicine deployment.
Thesis
Housing First: Evidence, Economics, and the Case Against Housing as Commodity
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Homelessness persists not because effective solutions are unknown, but because political ideology and the financialisation of housing override empirical evidence. Examines the persistence of the staircase (treatment-first) model despite four decades of evidence documenting its 80-90% failure rate, versus the Housing First model's documented success.
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Just Show Up
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Sanctuary & Design

5 Papers
The applied arm of the University. If the other faculties diagnose the enclosure, this faculty designs the replacement. Grief-to-design methodology converts lived experience of system failure into rigorous design specifications. 14 prevention goals traced from documented loss to system architecture. The Zookeeper's Blueprint is the formal specification for what a human sanctuary would look like if designed by someone who understood the species.
Sanctuary Design: A Zoological Framework for Human Systems
11,711 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
If humans were a newly discovered species arriving at a well-designed sanctuary, would we design their enclosure the way current civilisation is structured? Drawing on evidence from population health studies (Kitava, Inuit, Okinawa), behavioural economics (capuchin fairness experiments), governance (Swiss cantons), and welfare science, this thesis argues the answer is demonstrably no.
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Grief-to-Design: Converting Personal Loss into Systemic Prevention
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Presents the Grief-to-Design methodology: a systematic framework for converting lived experiences of personal loss into generalisable design requirements for systemic prevention. Operationalised through fourteen prevention requirements and a five-question template that translates proximity to harm into causal maps and actionable policy proposals.
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The Sanctuary
6,570 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Quiet Build
2,303 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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The Rebel Had No Google: Camus's Intuitions, Now With Evidence
3,297 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Identity & Proof

2 Papers
Cryptographic identity that belongs to the individual, not the institution. Deterministic address generation from inputs you control. Same inputs, same address, everywhere, forever. No institution can issue it, so no institution can revoke it. These papers sit at the intersection of Technology and Justice — examining what "proof" means when identity infrastructure is self-sovereign.
The Immutable Chain
873 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Sybil Resistance Through Physical Co-Presence
479 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Cross-Faculty & Supplementary

Additional Papers
Papers that span multiple faculties or provide supplementary analysis, technical specifications, and foundational frameworks that support research across the University's full collection.
The Prior Problem: You Can't Know Someone's Prior
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Bayesian prediction models in institutional settings encode existing biases as mathematical priors, produce predictions that confirm those priors, and generate self-reinforcing diagnostic loops. Five reproducible studies demonstrating algorithmic laundering across risk assessment, diagnostic, and predictive systems.
5 Studies · Open Data
You Can't Hurt Me If I Can't Be Hurt
2,791 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Be In The Same Room At The Same Time
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Civic Proximity Pilot Study: Ethics Submission
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Ethics Submission
Token System: Technical Specification v2.0
4,057 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Technical Specification
The Grounded Word
1,930 words
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
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Wai Diet Claims: What's Real, What's Not, What's Useful
A. C. Applebee & L. N. Combe
Analysis
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