Technology, power, and the people caught between them.
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
App Stores Are a Racket and We All Just Accepted It Let me say what a lot of people in tech are thinking but won’t put in writing because they work for someone who does business with one of these companies: app stores are one of the most successful long con operations in the history … Read more
There is a database sitting on Windows machines right now that contains a continuously updated, semantically searchable, AI-indexed record of everything the user has done on that computer. Every document opened. Every message read. Every website visited. Every password field that appeared on screen. Every draft written and deleted. It is stored as a plaintext … 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