The Best Substack Alternatives
It would be hard to leave Substack, granted. They are a very good, normal company—one that does not at all enable extremism (wink.) Everything Substack does is justified, and good,…
CEO Chris Best on racism on Substack
Substack CEO Chris Best on why racism is ok on substack
Amazon, Ashton Kutcher And America’s Surveillance Of The Sex Trade
“The cops can go to the media and say, ‘We were able to successfully rescue this woman from sex trafficking,’ when, no, you just spied on a chick,”
The Human Touch
I’ve been following parallel media stories about visual artists in two different fields. Each story is about artists who create fantastical images, but they’re worried they can no long practice…
Sell This Book!
Corporate publishing wants to turn all readers into renters. We’re trying to stop them. Maybe you’ve noticed how things keep disappearing—or stop working—when you “buy” them online from big platforms…
Silicon Valley’s propaganda machine
The Future is here. After announcing it was getting into the content game earlier this year, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, launched its Future blog this week to…
You’re now connected to AmazonNet – The Hammer
Remember, Amazon owns a third of the market for cloud computing, is buying up undersea cables around the world, and plans to launch thousands of satellites into orbit to provide…
Poor in Tech
I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because one time everyone else in my department quit or was fired in the space of six months,…
‘FIND THIS FUCK:’ Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism
Internal documents, messages, and roadmaps show how crime app Citizen is pushing the boundary of what a private, app-enabled vigilante force may be capable of.
Capitalist’s vision of the future sucks
it's always high tech stuff because that's what makes them money