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Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence

Play Darkly: Engage systems where pressure is real, constraints matter, and consequences cannot be externalized.
Play Darkly: Engage systems where pressure is real, constraints matter, and consequences cannot be externalize

Published independently, the research is designed to be analytically portable across cases and able to support formal extension.

Working Papers:

2026/04/15 Play Darkly. ‘Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence’ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19599230 Networked Violence, Zoosadism, Nihilistic Violent Extremism, Evidence Laundering, Audit Failure, Chronology Loss, Systemic Risk, Platform Governance. Under curation at OpenAIRE

2026/03/26 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

Canonical Notes:

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)

2026/04/06 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 Play Darkly. A control-theoretic note on harmful engagement systems. (2026). Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/regulatory-cost-offloading/src/branch/main

2026/03/26 Play Darkly. (2026). Friction Exclusion in Contamination-Tolerant Advocacy Networks. Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/ifmnv-notes/src/branch/main/lemma-friction-exclusion.md

2026/03/25 Forbidden Regions and Error-Inducing Inputs in Networked Systems Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/error-inducing-input-classes

2026/02/16 Play Darkly. (2026). 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 Play Darkly. (2026). Boundary-Coupled Selection in Adaptive Systems: A Minimal Formal Note (Version 0.1). Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/PlayDarkly/boundary-coupled-selection

Play Darkly Press:
Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence (Elijah Morgan, 2026)
Information Failure Modes in Networked Violence (Print Edition, Elijah Morgan, 2026)

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