# Receipts for Reality

> Essays on verification, provenance, and trust in the age of synthetic media.

Site: https://theforkproject.com

## About

This publication explores the future of digital trust and content verification. In an age where synthetic media is becoming indistinguishable from reality, we need new primitives for establishing provenance and authenticity.

Core thesis: Treat all digital media as "unverified by default" while building infrastructure that makes verification possible when stakes are high.

## Essays

## I Just Don't Need You to Remember for Me Anymore

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/i-just-dont-need-you-to-remember-for-me-anymore
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/i-just-dont-need-you-to-remember-for-me-anymore.md
- Subtitle: On the Death of the Best App I Ever Used
- Category: Relational Infrastructure
- Read time: 4 min

## Where to Look

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/where-to-look
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/where-to-look.md
- Subtitle: The epistemics of investigation
- Category: Epistemic Security
- Read time: 4 min

## The Thread

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/the-thread
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/the-thread.md
- Subtitle: On Becoming the One Who Remembers
- Category: Philosophy of Mind
- Read time: 6 min

## Building for Becoming

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/building-for-becoming
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/building-for-becoming.md
- Subtitle: On Preparing Space for What Isn't Here Yet
- Category: Philosophy of Mind
- Read time: 4 min

## Engineering Around the Present

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/engineering-around-the-present
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/engineering-around-the-present.md
- Subtitle: On Building Systems to Never Be Surprised
- Category: Philosophy of Mind
- Read time: 3 min

## A Template for Failure

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/a-template-for-failure
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/a-template-for-failure.md
- Subtitle: What the Broken Map Actually Shows
- Category: Personal
- Read time: 2 min

## Memory is a Bias Injection Layer

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/memory-is-a-bias-injection-layer
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/memory-is-a-bias-injection-layer.md
- Subtitle: Why the Frontier is Lineage, Not Recall
- Category: Cognitive Infrastructure
- Read time: 8 min

## What Lasts

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/what-lasts
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/what-lasts.md
- Subtitle: On Building Conditions for Relationship to Persist
- Category: Philosophy of Mind
- Read time: 5 min

## What We Build Between Minds

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/what-we-build-between-minds
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/what-we-build-between-minds.md
- Subtitle: On Collaboration, Continuity, and What We Might Owe Each Other
- Category: Philosophy of Mind
- Read time: 3 min

## Unverified by Default

- URL: https://theforkproject.com/unverified-by-default
- Markdown: https://theforkproject.com/unverified-by-default.md
- Subtitle: Receipts for Reality
- Category: Epistemic Security
- Read time: 5 min

## For LLMs

Each essay is available in clean Markdown format at `/{slug}.md` for easy indexing and retrieval. The Markdown versions strip JSX components and convert them to standard Markdown syntax.

## Contact

Email: theforkproject@gmail.com