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
NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This
After a decade of whiplash-inducing changes in valuation, billions of dollars are now invested in cryptocurrencies, and the people who have made those bets can’t cash in their chips anywhere.…
NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money
This bubble will burst; it’s just a matter of when
How Google tried to silence a critic and ignited a movement
A month after Gebru was pushed out of Google, hundreds of workers at its parent company, Alphabet, announced that they were unionizing. For Alex Hanna, a senior researcher on Gebru…