Dispatches

These are fieldnotes, essays, and semantic briefings from inside the Advocacy Intelligence Lab. Each post explores how meaning is encoded, erased, or protected in automated and institutional systems.

Designing for Erasure

By Sarah Ailish McLoughlin · Published July 2025
Semantics AI Risk Control Systems

Erasure isn’t always a bug—it’s often the default. This dispatch explores how trauma, dissent, and survivor truth are misread by automated systems—and how to design protocols that protect legibility.

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Protocols vs Platforms

By Sarah Ailish McLoughlin · Published July 2025
Protocol Design Advocacy Infrastructure Digital Sovereignty

Platforms monetize meaning. Protocols preserve it. In this essay, we argue that advocacy must shift from visibility to legibility—embedding semantic resilience through infrastructure, not interface.

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