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"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.
Yours Truly
Day job is spent on digital safety and cyber security for the world's edge cases. Opinions are many, varied, subject to drift, and all his own. Moonlights as an author of perpetually unwritten books.
doomscroll
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.
ai
The Demon-Haunted Machine
Notes on belief, delusion, magical thinking, and putting the AI genie back in its bottle where it belongs.
doomscroll
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.
doomscroll
The week's doomscrolling in review: issue 6
This is the Final week's doomscrolling in review for 2024.
all politics is local
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 special
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.
doomscroll
The week's doomscrolling in review: issue 4
This week's doomscroll review lacks a format, a theme, and even a chronology. Enjoy.
all politics is local
There is no more time for grief
The grieving period is now over. It wasn't that useful, anyway. Welcome to the five stages of resistance.
treacherous.tech
In praise of bubbles
Platforms are called 'social networks' for a reason. They're aimed at facilitating social exchanges. You build social circles on them. Round things, like bubbles.
doomscroll
The week's doomscrolling in review: Issue 3
Another week's run through the headlines that capture the mudslide of carnage, corruption and 'banality of evil' that you can say is why you still drink.
all politics is local
There is no escape, only movement
After the news dropped that Donald Trump would be moving back into the White House, Google Trends showed that a lot of Americans started searching up how to get themselves out of the country. Here's some notes on doing that.