Technology, power, and the people caught between them.
I got called for jury duty. I was genuinely excited about it. I know how that sounds. Most people treat a jury summons the way they treat a parking ticket — an inconvenience to survive and escape as fast as possible. They show up hoping to get dismissed. They rehearse reasons why they can’t possibly … Read more
George Orwell. Ray Bradbury. Alan Moore. Three different writers, three different decades, three different formats. One thing in common: they each sat down and tried to warn you. Not predict. Warn. Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949 after watching fascism and Stalinism operate up close. Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, partly in response to … Read more
There’s a temptation to treat what’s happening to American democracy right now as a sudden break — a rupture, an aberration, a thing that came out of nowhere. It didn’t. What we’re watching is the endpoint of a road that’s been under construction for over forty years. We just weren’t told where it was going. … Read more
An Opinion on Colorado SB 26-051, California AB 1043, and New York SB S8102A Introduction Colorado, California, and New York have all introduced or passed legislation requiring operating systems to report age brackets to app stores and websites, and in New York’s case, mandating that adults verify their identity through state-approved methods just to use … Read more