Technology
2026-02-21: Companies are trying to force their employees to use generative AI
2026-02-20
2026-02-19: Researchers find that using X's algorithm shifts people's political views to the right
2026-02-17
The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’
2026-02-16: How to archive even paid Substacks - converting them into an eBook
2026-02-10
Stop generating, start thinking: Arguments against letting Claude Code et al just blindly do your whole job for you.
2026-02-08: A non-exhaustive list of cases where it is alleged that generative AI may have played some part in humans committing fatal violence to themselves or others
2026-02-04: The enshittification of the United States of America
2026-01-31
Only the Metrics Care: ‘The user isn’t the customer. And they’re not the product either. The real product is behavioral optimization–metrics on a dashboard’
The Who Cares Era: ‘…where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.’
Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns: ‘Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised’
2026-01-30: Well, the inevitable shark-jumping exercise happened, and now there exists a social network …
2026-01-30
How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’
2026-01-29: When it came down to it, totally predictably, big tech chose to support the baddies
2026-01-23: 📚 Finished reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
2025-12-31
When Online Content Disappears: On link-rot - ‘A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible’
2025-12-30: Tech bros seem obsessed with Lord of The Rings. Perhaps they should read it.
2025-12-28
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.’
2025-12-27
Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.
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: 📚 Finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
2025-10-28: OpenAI estimate that a million people a week show suicidal intent when using ChatGPT
2025-10-26
The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?