# Blog

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Essays in two beats. The epistemology of machine citation, and notes from the editor’s chair.

- ## [Named Entities: Why Nothing Gets to Name Itself (Not Even on Google)](https://isaacmarcuson.com/blog/entity-authority/) July 19, 2026 You can call yourself anything; you cannot set your own weight. A law about authority, traced from Delphi through Google's patents: nothing enters the graph, or the world, on its own declaration. Things get named.