The America Phone
The airplane may have limits on your luggage, but U.S. border control should make you consider how much baggage you want to cart around on a mobile.
Bad prompts
Corporate AI bosses are obsessed with convincing us their tools can do everything we can already do for ourselves.
When the machine programs you
We do not have a technology problem; we have a venture capitalism problem.
Know your value... and know your values
The first thing they try to destroy in a coup is always people's sense of themselves.
"All the world's a stage" (and it's on fire)
Tl;dr: We need controlled burns at the protocol level, and the kinds of online terrain that our Tech Oligarchy boys can't blaze through.
The week's doomscrolling in review: Issue 8
Big Tech always bends the knee to power. And other notes from this week (and a bit) of watching things get worse.
The Demon-Haunted Machine
Notes on belief, delusion, magical thinking, and putting the AI genie back in its bottle where it belongs.
New Year's Doomscroll in Review
This edition is an end-of-year/new-year hodge podge. Before we can fully see off 2024 here's what occupied my feed between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, or around there. Grab your Saturday cup of joe and scroll.
The week's doomscrolling in review: issue 6
This is the Final week's doomscrolling in review for 2024.
Who's to blame? Ranking and allocating responsibility for allowing the next Trump Co. regime (with diagrams where relevant)
Whenever things don't go your way, the instinct is to lay some blame somewhere. Following the re-election of Trump Co., the post-game analysis has been non-stop. Here's my offering on the hierarchy of responsibility.
Xmas guide ahead of the pivot
A little information security is just the thing anyone would love to see in their Christmas sock. Here are some notions for keeping Santa's spies from knowing whether you belong on either his naughty or nice lists.
The week's doomscrolling in review: issue 4
This week's doomscroll review lacks a format, a theme, and even a chronology. Enjoy.