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  "at": "2026-10-15T06:17:41Z",
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  "author": {
    "name": "Matthew McDowell-Sweet",
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  "content_md": "It’s so bits; we’re so atoms.\n\n> “Cashed in” means this: a joule is fungible and a bit is abstract. Neither touches the world except through an arrangement of atoms. A civilization’s energy is worthless until it turns a shaft or drives a synthesis; its information is inert until it steers a machine or edits a genome. Every impact either axis has ever had was delivered as a change in the arrangement of matter, because a change in the arrangement of matter is what an impact is.\n\n[Atomic Machines - Origin Story ↗](https://atomicmachines.com/blog/atomic-machines-origin-story)",
  "content_html": "<p>It’s so bits; we’re so atoms.</p>\n<blockquote><p>“Cashed in” means this: a joule is fungible and a bit is abstract. Neither touches the world except through an arrangement of atoms. A civilization’s energy is worthless until it turns a shaft or drives a synthesis; its information is inert until it steers a machine or edits a genome. Every impact either axis has ever had was delivered as a change in the arrangement of matter, because a change in the arrangement of matter is what an impact is.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://atomicmachines.com/blog/atomic-machines-origin-story\">Atomic Machines - Origin Story ↗</a></p>",
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