And analyzing the language of politicians
The Maine Legislature declared itself in charge of innovation and is collecting data that will go into its master plan for controlling every aspect of Maine society.
As the state dialogues with institutions possessing concentrated wealth. What else is new? Is this innovation? Or is innovation just another word for exploitation?
If the state were innovative, it would be capable of including Andersen Design, but it is incapable of engaging outside the box of its enforced conformity to the state’s targeted sector, and whenever the government is in charge, that means painted with a wide brush, not taking in the nuances. Within the corporate structure governed by closed circles of the power elite, thinking does not venture outside the walls maintained by central management. The state has eyes only for prefabs.
Andersen Design can still be a leader in handcrafted manufacturing, which will become more sought after as the world is inundated with prefab, prefab everywhere.
In 1976, the corporate state of Maine was established as “an essential government function,” a term that sounds vaguely impressive but is undefined in the Maine statutes, a term that innovates on the Maine Constitution.
I asked Google AI “when was the term ‘an essential government function” first used in the Maine statutes? Google AI confirmed that the term was first used in 1977.
AI Overview
“The term ‘an essential governmental function’ was first used in the Maine statutes in 1977. It was applied to the Maine Development Foundation in a new law, PL 1977, c. 548, §1.
The statute stated that the foundation’s public purpose activities “shall be deemed and held to be an essential governmental function”. This provision was intended to establish legislative authority for the foundation to operate as an instrumentality of the state.”
References include Constitution of Maine – Wikipedia
I was surprised to find that the words highlighted in the Constitution of Maine in Wikipedia, sound like I wrote them. Wikipedia never informed me that they reversed their judgment about my source, which is the Maine Legislative Library, not being considered a reliable source. I then recalled that the article I edited was the biography of Governor Longley. I don’t recall editing the article about the Maine Constitution, but I think I can identify my own writing, as in the following:
Despite the constitutional prohibition, the legislature has embedded a complex corporate network of corporations that serve as “an instrumentality of the state” and declared to be “essential government functions” and are linked to a network of “public-private relationships” also referred to as ‘quasis” and business consortiums”. This has largely occurred since 1977 when the Maine Legislature chartered the Maine Development Foundation[3] as a non-profit corporation to serve as an instrumentality of the state with the expressed intent to establish legislative authority to centrally manage Maine’s economy:
Part 2: BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 107: MAINE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION; MAINE ECONOMIC GROWTH COUNCIL
§915. Legislative findings and intent: “There is a need to establish a new basis for a creative partnership of the private and public sectors … but which does not compromise the public interest or the profit motive. The state’s solitary burden to provide for development should lessen through involving the private sector in a leadership role ….. The foundation shall exist as a not-for-profit corporation with a public purpose, and the exercise by the foundation of the powers conferred by this chapter shall be deemed and held to be an essential governmental function
Afterward, the article quotes Governor Seldon Conner’s inaugural address of 1876. as I often do.
I decided it was time for an extension to include my recent thinking on Article IV Part Third Sections 13 and 14, which I published as a Letter to the Editor of the Boothbay Register. I will see if my new edit remains published on Wikipedia. I added the explanation in the TALK Section, which does not appear to be very active at this time, but I would hope for it to become more so, for where do we discuss the Maine Constitution at a time when our Legislature acts like there is no law that governs it? Maine law requires that the Maine Constitution be taught in our public schools, but that law is ignored by the same people who insist that we must align with arguably unconstitutional laws such as HP1489.
This is my note in Talk describing my addition to the article on the Maine Constitution.
I added a discussion of Article IV Part Third, Sections 13 and 14 of the Maine Constitution, which I opined clarifies that regulation is identified as an “essential government function” and that government participation in the field of regulation is a conflict of interest. This is the inherent principle in sections 13 and 14. I tied this to the Objects of Government (Justice) found in the Preamble to the Maine Constitution and asked what is the difference between “Objects of Government” and “an essential government function”? The latter term was introduced by the Maine Legislature in 1977 to justify central management of the economy as a state function, which means central management of everything. I commented on recent statutory laws, including the legislative charter by special act of legislation of the Maine Space Corporation and HP1489, which created state-wide municipal ordinances. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mackenzie Andersen (talk • contribs) 11:36, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
It’s quite amazing that the Legislature would write, when chartering the Maine Development Corporation that “There is a need to establish a new basis for a creative partnership of the private and public sectors for economic development, a partnership which can capitalize on the interests, resources, and efforts of each sector, but which does not compromise the public interest or the profit motive”
What is the most common cause of a conflict of interest with the public interest, if not the profit motive? In my opinion, they wrote these Pollyanna words characterizing the public-private corporate state to gaslight the prohibition against what they were creating as found in Article IV Part Third, Section 13 and 14 of the Maine Constitution.
The words “Legislative findings and intent: “but which does not compromise the public interest or the profit motive” defy the expressed intent of Article IV Part Third Section 13 & 14 of the Maine Constitution.
What is it supposed to mean that the Maine Legislature declares itself to be in charge of innovation? Innovation of what?
Meanwhile, I am embarking upon a single-person project to create an AI-driven marketing channel for Andersen Design, single person by necessity, because there is no support anywhere in this state for Andersen Design.
I am now very overwhelmed as I enter the content phase. I was encouraged to read this description about what is happening in the developing community: in a comment to The Best AI Startup Success Stories Are Sitting on Hard Drives and Have One User by Joe ProcopioSonu Goswami (SaaS content writer)
This is spot on. many of the most valuable ai projects never leave the creator’s environment, often because they’re highly customized, tackle niche problems, or require careful integration with private data. real innovation is less about flashy demos and more about practical automation, unlocking unstructured data, and creating unique workflows. that’s why the ai garbage you see publicly doesn’t reflect the cutting-edge work happening on individual hard drives. true proof of value often stays private
The centralized state is isomorphic to the WordPress Control panel that limits possibilities of what can be done, but to have true innovative capability, one must work outside of the control panel in patterns and code.
The Legislature did not declare innovation to be an “essential government function”, not only because innovation does not require chartering a corporation, but also because, with the charter of the Maine Space Corporation, the declaration is no longer needed. Is that because chartering corporations by special acts of legislation has become so commonplace that constitutional justification is no longer required?
The phrase “essential government function” has been used to justify repeated violations of Article IV Part Third Sections 13 & 14 of the Maine Constitution. The Charter of the Maine Space Corporation is the most disturbing due to the intended breadth of the Space Corporation’s presence in Maine and the conflict of interest with a genuine essential government function, that of regulating industry, which impacts pre-existing industries and potentially has harmful effects on the environment.
AI is a prolific subject among content makers. A popular topic is finding the perfect prompt that generates many pages of code in minutes, allowing for the design of an entire complex project in the blink of an eye. The problem with that is that it requires careful, time-consuming examination of the code, the project, and the philosophy it represents, to ensure that there are no serious errors.
I approach AI as a conversation. Mistakes made by AI are detected as part of a process that progresses incrementally. The most common mistake AI makes is in identifying the source of a problem in a multi-level system, such as the WordPress block system, in which there are posts, pages, templates, and patterns. The most flexible editing functions are found in patterns where individualized innovation takes place. The templates, posts, and pages are the end products, where WordPress editing controls are formalized.The control panel is supposed to make everything easier, but often it just makes the process more frustrating by setting narrow parameters about what you can and cannot do. Then it is sometimes best to use additional CSS or PHP code. Claude is good at writing code and explaining the reasoning behind it, which is important to understand because Claude can make mistakes in coding, too. Like humans, AI is imperfect. Building something slowly is a careful approach and could even be a faster approach, given the possibility of mistakes buried in a large project.
The next stage is learning digital marketing, and I am feeling quite overwhelmed by the “Difficulty at the Beginning.”
The ads promoting the wonders of AI marketing are abundant, but I take them with a grain of salt. Still, there must be some truth to it.
Andersen Design built a making and marketing system as a network of collectors, galleries, and catalogues across the USA and the world. My idea is that AI can connect to it. The journal of my learning process will be recorded on Mackenzie Andersen, where posts will be shorter. I will continue my Substack Newsletter as a longer format and culturally focused subject matter.
Building the website was a long process. WordPress has a new block system promoted as making everything easier, but I think it makes it more difficult, at least until one masters its complexities and spins it into a unifying order. Yesterday I spent the entire day figuring out how to adjust the width of the title column on my post page. You might think that would be basic, as it once was, and in the end, the secret was accessing the screen options menu that was blocked by my profile popping up every time the mouse got close to the screen options menu, so I had to approach it from another angle, which was to use my hardrive zoom controls to adjust the screen display so that I had room to access the screen options menu without interference from my profile.
Once the screen options menu opened up, it was easy, but it took a day trying many different approaches to see the obvious. As Claude summed it up, I learned a lot in the process:
“But you’re right – it’s totally worth it. You’ll save so much time and frustration now that you can actually see what posts you’re working with at a glance. Plus, you learned a bunch of useful WordPress troubleshooting techniques along the way”
- How plugin conflicts can mess up layouts
- The power of Screen Options (when you can access it!)
- Using browser zoom as a UI workaround
- Why having two SEO plugins is a bad idea
“Sometimes the “simple” problems teach us the most. Your WordPress admin is going to be much more pleasant to work with now!”
I have been working with Claud to integrate my three websites, Andersen Design, Andersen Studio, and Mackenzie Andersen. Andersen Design is the wholesale or umbrella identity. Andersen Studio is the retail gallery, and Mackenzie Andersen is the narrator.
Now I have to shift my attention to marketing the product.
That’s a whole other frame of mind from which I am accustomed. I asked Claude for ideas, and of course, the first ideas are the conventional ones, and that is how I should begin, and later see what I can do with what is my normal writing subject matter, which perhaps Claude will advise me on too, but I will have to take the lead.
Niche market engagement emerges when the net is spread over a larger territory. The internet makes a broadly spread market more easily accessible, and AI amplifies accessibility.
If I am successful at creating an income stream through digitally marketing Andersen Design, someday, the umbrella might include a larger field of makers. I like to imagine the Peninsula as a place where small makers build an innovative alternative to the centrally managed state’s corporate grid.
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