Please Note: Major site updates and redesigns are in progress between 2026/06/01 – 2026/06/06. New sections will deploy, older research will be moved to archive. The site may be unavailable for periods during this time. I or my team can always be reached through email. https://codeberg.org/playdarkly remains open, as does all Zenodo/OpenAIRE material. /Your patience is appreciated, Elijah Morgan
“Elijah Morgan has developed an original and credible analytical framework for thinking about networked violence and information failure in digital environments. His work is serious, rigorous, and highly relevant to criminological efforts to understand emerging forms of technologically mediated harm.” M Jenny Edwards, Criminologist
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2026/04/28 Evolutionary Control Theory
“The extension is therefore precise: in some networked harm systems, archival persistence is not downstream of reproduction.
It is part of the selecting boundary itself.”
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19881089
2026/04/28 The next phase of Evolutionary Control Theory will evaluate TRIBE v2 as a limited cortical-response proxy.
2026/05/14-2026/05/28 TRIBE v2 Test 1.0
https://playdarkly.com/category/information-failure-modes
2023-2026/Ongoing: Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence
The problem space: cyber-enabled, transnational, monetized animal torture networks who use offshore platforms, cryptocurrency payment channels, and distributed spectatorship to convert cruelty into repeatable, commissioned media. Domestic law then collapses the harm into low-level public-order enforcement because animal abuse, child protection, platform circulation, cross-border payment, and evidentiary contamination are split across incompatible legal categories.
2026/05/04 Morgan, Elijah. Open Investigation: Staged Cruelty, Fake Rescue, and Evidence Laundering Play Darkly. https://playdarkly.com/staged-cruelty-fake-rescue-evidence-laundering/
2026/04/29 Morgan, Elijah. Evolutionary Control Theory: Boundary-Coupled Selection, Archival Prestige, and Harm Persistence in Networked Systems. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19881089
2026/04/21 Morgan, Elijah. Useless Machines, Cost Offload, and Owner-Adjacent Model Governance in Platform AI. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19678962
2026/04/20 Morgan, Elijah. Error-Inducing Input Classes Formal note on identifying source classes that prevent convergence in networked systems. Play Darkly. https://playdarkly.com/forbidden-regions-and-error-inducing-inputs-in-networked-systems/ (c.f. Codeberg entry, 2026/03/25)
2026/04/15 Platform–Revenue Coupling in Harm-Amplifying Systems Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/ifmnv-notes/src/branch/main/lemma-platform-revenue-coupling.md
2026/04/15 Morgan, Elijah. Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19599230 Networked Violence, Evidence Laundering, Audit Failure, Chronology Loss, Systemic Risk, Platform Governance. Under curation at OpenAIRE.
2026/04/06 Morgan, Elijah. The Network Does Not Need Infiltrators Play Darkly. https://playdarkly.com/the-network-does-not-need-infiltrators/ Concerns emergence of degraded or laundered evidence flowing through animal activist networks.
2026/04/06 A control-theoretic note on harmful engagement systems. Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/regulatory-cost-offloading/src/branch/main
2026/03/26 Friction Exclusion in Contamination-Tolerant Advocacy Networks. Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/ifmnv-notes/src/branch/main/lemma-friction-exclusion.md + Addendum: https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/ifmnv-notes/src/branch/main/addendum-friction-exclusion-advocacy-networks.md
2026/03/26 Morgan, Elijah. Print copies now available of: Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence. 1st edition (2026), Play Darkly Imprint. Systems/Platform Design, Criminology, Nihilistic Violent Extremism, Harm Propagation Analysis
2026/03/25 Forbidden Regions and Error-Inducing Inputs in Networked Systems Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/error-inducing-input-classes
2026/02/16 Structural Coupling as a Stability Condition in Gradient-Optimized Systems (Version 0.1). Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/structural-coupling-stability/src/branch/main/docs/tofs-v0.1.m https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/structural-coupling-stability
2026/02/11 Boundary-Coupled Selection in Adaptive Systems: A Minimal Formal Note (Version 0.1). Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/boundary-coupled-selection
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