Lifelogging under fascism
How self-tracking became self-incrimination
Latest
What I owe to August 6
It was a war crime. And my relationship to it is complicated.
Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Japan, the EU, and the UK all now require Apple to support third-party browser engines. That's great news for the open web.
Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing
“We’re seeing right now why tech needs unions.”
Ghost 6.0
The new version of Ghost connects every site to an open social network that provides built-in reach without losing independence.
Small repairs
Drinking Sunday coffee in the hyper-normal
Did Craigslist decimate newspapers?
"Here in six short chapters is the tale of Craigslist’s rise to a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year, how Newmark has used that fortune and how newspapers, slow to adapt, failed to respond effectively to the digital shift.”
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder."
Evaluating AI
How to think about vendors, technology, and power
If I ran my life
Designing a values-centered life from first principles.
If I ran NPR and PBS
Building community-driven public media for the post-federal funding era.
Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
The Trump administration is using AI as a way to shill fossil fuels. But even for tech companies that don't care about climate change, renewables are a far better option.
AI
OpenAI’s gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad
OpenAI claims a significant result: gold-level performance International Mathematical Olympiad. But they're scant on details and it needs to be independently verified.
Democracy
Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
When vendor promises meet government warrants, the warrants win every time. Microsoft's Senate testimony shows why "trust us" isn't a data protection strategy.
Media
Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
Without public media funding, local stations will close, creating news deserts and allowing political corruption to thrive.
Technology
Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty
Global Majority nations are building ways to store their citizens' data locally. But will they own the datacenters themselves?
Technology
Fell in a hole, got out.
Tony Stubblebine's account of saving Medium is remarkable in its transparency - and in its execution.
If I ran X
How to transform the internet's most toxic platform into essential infrastructure.
AI
The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
"I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."
Technology
Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows
It's wild to me how many people are still engaging with X.
AI
‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’
As more people look to AI to learn about the world, the people who control how it's trained and how it responds will control our prevailing narratives. That's wildly dangerous.
Society
Family zoning actually means something cool
Forget San Francisco - I wish every single US city would do this. We're too car-dependent, too isolated, too unhealthy. (Honestly, European mixed-use development should be the model.)
Democracy
America is a myth
We have to decide which story we believe in.
Democracy
What are we actually for? The Mamdani case for positive resistance
Why effective opposition requires more than just saying no