Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’
Bad tech
2026-01-29: When it came down to it, totally predictably, big tech chose to support the baddies
2026-01-23: In Nexus, Harari explains the criticality of information networks - and why the rise of AI might endanger them, and hence humanity
2025-12-30: Tech bros seem obsessed with Lord of The Rings. Perhaps they should read it.
2025-12-28
2025-12-27
Large Language Muddle: A litany of some of the darker sides of AI.
2025-12-09
Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’
2025-11-28
King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.
2025-11-05: Sarah Wynn-Williams' book 'Careless People' exposes the ethical horrors of how Facebook is run
2025-10-28: OpenAI estimate that a million people a week show suicidal intent when using ChatGPT
2025-10-25
ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”
2025-10-09: 📺 Watched Black Mirror season 7. This unsettling show (mostly) about the dark side of of our …
2025-09-10
The Job Market Is Hell: Masses of people using AI being filtered with AI when applying to rather fewer jobs whose descriptions have been written by AI.
2025-09-06
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.
2025-08-17: The UK government wants to use 'advanced AI' to catch pre-crime
2025-08-03: Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world This …
2025-08-03
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world: Open source technologies built by the community that solves real problems,
2025-08-02
Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music: Yet another reason.
2025-06-28: Mustafa Suleyman shares a dramatic warning about our future with AI and synthetic biology in 'The Coming Wave'
2025-06-20: WhatsApp deploys advertising and accidentally leaks someone's personal information via its AI assistant
2025-06-01
2025-05-11: Wendell Berry's 9 standards for embracing technological innovation
2025-05-11
The World’s Largest Search Engine Doesn’t Want You to Search: Google would just love you to stay on its own site.
2025-05-11: 'Almost everything in the digital world is turning into its opposite'
2025-04-24
The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’