I’ve been rewatching the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune — not the Lynch classic, nor the sleek modern blockbusters, but the strange, ambitious, slightly stage‑play version that somehow captures the spirit of Herbert’s universe better than either, in my view.

Frashokereti, Data Compression, and the Bifurcation Event In my final post of 2025 , I wrote that the simulacrum  — the artificial overlay of reality — may be running out of space. Not physical space, but informational space . Narratives were looping, systems were straining, and the illusion was beginning to lose coherence. I linked this intuition to Frashokereti , the Zoroastrian vision of a purifying fire at the end of an age — not destruction, but a refresh of the system