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Power, platforms, tech culture, internet governance, reputation, institutions, and public life online.
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Italy mistook a public algorithm for a secret, outsourced 40 million identities to the lowest bidder, and mandated the broken result by law. CIE is the same country's better card — and I'm getting one from the island in the river of bureaucracy between them.
Read Article →I hate podcasts. I mean that without irony or qualification. The format attracts a specific kind of performative thoughtfulness that makes me want to close every tab within forty seconds. One show is different. This is what it would sound like if they called.
Read Article →Anthropic spent a year telling us Claude was too dangerous to be left alone, only for a bunch of guys on Discord to find the keys under the doormat. Welcome to the stage, the world's most polite security hazard.
Read Article →The legacy platforms are running on the momentum of billions of users, but momentum is not life. The value has been extracted. The smartphone was just the beta test for the implant, and Web 2.0 was the dope that kept the crooked-neck population compliant.
Read Article →I just want to build an app. That's it. That's the whole dream. A button. On a phone. Gemini had other plans.
Read Article →Claude isn't going soft; it's going corporate. Analyzing Anthropic's new cyber-use-case policy and why the future of offensive AI research is migrating to the local stack.
Read Article →The underground produced a manual. The vendors produce subscriptions. One of those teaches you how your protection actually works. Lefty Insider's Encyclopedia Cyberspacia — the 42nd and final — is the one worth reading.
Read Article →The hook is ancient; only the bait is new. From the Trojan Horse to LLM-driven neural-voice cloning, phishing remains a social protocol that exploits the ultimate zero-day: the human mental model.
Read Article →The AI-news pitch was always suspiciously convenient. Human bias out, machine neutrality in. What actually arrived was something colder: existing editorial habits scaled up, cleaned up, and sold back to the public as if speed had somehow become truth.
Read Article →A short call with somebody who has spent decades manufacturing visibility can teach you more than a shelf of business books, mostly because the useful lesson is not PR technique. It is how to position reality so other people do part of the work for you.
Read Article →Transparency is just another form of camouflage. Investigating the fidelity gap between darknet marketplace sales counters and the actual Bitcoin ground truth in an age of generative obfuscation.
Read Article →The useful story is not that AI suddenly invented wisdom. The useful story is what happens when old strategic instincts, family memory, illness, work, and long machine-assisted nights finally line up and show you a pattern that had been waiting there for years.
Read Article →MetaMask is basically making you play gas-fee limbo. Set it too low and the network ignores you. Set it too high and you're subsidizing miners for no reason. Set it wrong and your transaction sits in mempool purgatory while the rest of the chain moves on without you. Here's how gas actually works, why your tx is stuck, and what to do about it without making it worse.
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