Spycraft and Smart TVs
Why the OpenAI Espionage Scandal Exposed the Biggest Blind Spot in Enterprise Security
Technology
The Architecture of the Infinite Con
From Theranos’s Black Box to Elon Musk’s Kinetic Hyperstition
The Phantom Safety Net: Silicon Valley’s Fake UBI
How corporate equity pledges and sovereign wealth schemes are being used to paper over the destruction of America’s public infrastructure.
How We Built Our Own Prison using AI
Why “human-in-the-loop” is the most dangerous lie in modern engineering
The Windowless Room: What Modern AI Forgot
Before data centers, AI researchers had to ask what a mind is made of. Their answers explain where today’s chatbots keep breaking.
The Packaged Void: 90s Grunge, Gen X & Lost Sovereignty
A Gen X post-mortem on high-production grunge, Boomer domestic negligence, the algorithmic confessional, and the lost luxury of an unmonitored mind.
Forking the Government: Taiwan’s Civic Hackers and the American Case for Networked Democracy
In late 2012, the government of Taiwan released an advertisement for its Economic Power-Up Plan. The ad’s message, repeated over and over, amounted to this: we have a very complex plan, it is too…