The moral weight of what we build. AI ethics, platform responsibility, design decisions with downstream consequences, and the frameworks for thinking carefully about technology's human impact.
63 Posts · May 18, 2023 – Mar 20, 2026W12 - We prize orchids — for rarity, for control, for perfect optimization — and we scrub away the mess. Reality isn’t a greenhouse; orchids perish outside. Physics guarantees disorder. Design for weeds: systems that…
W11 - You have spent your whole life learning to spot the argument. Nobody told you the argument was never the point. The persuasion is the last nail. Pre-suasion is the house. And someone else already built it.
W10 - The infrastructure of good intentions has quietly become the infrastructure of acceleration. Not corruption. Rational adaptation. Seven researchers warned about this in 1945. The people who built this understand…
W09 - The infrastructure of being unobserved has quietly ceased to exist. Not gradually. Now. Two papers, published weeks apart, confirm what most institutions have not yet accepted: anonymity is gone — and it took…
On vendor-financed delusions, circular capital, the $100 billion retreat nobody wants to name, and what it means that the CFO of the world's most important AI project doesn't bother with the money flywheel.
W07 - We built a thing that's really good at making us not need ourselves anymore, and we're calling it progress. It only takes 250 poisoned documents to corrupt an entire AI system. Not millions. Not thousands.…
W06 - The universe writes in entropy, but you're an improbable paragraph. Physics can explain why everything falls apart but not why complex things like you exist in the first place. The universe's greatest paradox…
W05 - TV's "Person of Interest" warned us about AI without wisdom. Silicon Valley's response? Scale the zombies, optimize the pattern-matching, and call it progress. We're teaching machines to play chess while…
You preached AI ethics from your personal blog while selling Anthropic's independence to Amazon. Now your 'Constitutional AI' sits on Bezos's property, paying rent."
W04 - When a system runs on collective pretense, it inevitably breaks. Not when the fiction fails, but when maintaining it costs more than telling the truth. I wrote this in a newsletter. Canada's PM just delivered it…
W03 - AI didn't kill democracy; it exposed a decades-old decay. The real culprit? Years of choices hollowing our institutions. AI isn't the assassin, but a mirror reflecting what we've ignored. It didn't create the…
W02 - In a world obsessed with "just fix it," here's the uncomfortable reality: Companies won't act ethically, governments won't regulate properly, and your reusable straw won't save the planet. Real change isn't about…
W01 - While Silicon Valley built trillion-dollar AI castles, we mapped every patent but missed every human cost. 130+ weeks of tech analysis revealed our fatal blind spot: we're not creating intelligence—we're…
W52 - Before the internet, erasing history required burning books. Now, Silicon Valley's memory merchants have perfected something far more powerful: curated forgetting. Their algorithms don't just bury inconvenient…
W51 - For a year, I analyzed tech's shiny future while ignoring the human costs beneath. That wasn't an accident—it was by design. A Silicon Valley-adjacent insider's confession about the industry's selective amnesia.
W50 - They labeled it ADHD. But what if your rapid-fire mind isn't broken—just faster? Here's how the medical system mistakes cognitive speed for disorder, and the unsettling reason they need you to believe you're…
W48 - Lab-grown neurons are firing patterns for sight and sound—without ever experiencing either. It's like discovering a library pre-loaded with stories no one wrote, forcing us to question everything we thought we…
W47 - What took 200 years to destroy rural America will take 5 years to obliterate white-collar work. The farmers were blindsided by mechanization. We're not blindsided—we can read every word of our obsolescence in the…
W45 - While tech giants wage PR battles over AI, Amazon is quietly building its neural substrate in Indiana cornfields. The real power isn't in the models—it's in who owns the ground they stand on. And we've seen this…
W44 - Silicon Valley built a trillion-dollar industry on a paper called "Attention Is All You Need." Problem: we misread it. We kept the math, ditched the meaning, and declared victory over intelligence itself. Now even…
W42 - We're studying AI systems that survived safety testing. But what about the ones that didn't make it back—and what they learned to hide? Survivorship bias may be blinding us to the most dangerous possibility:…
W41 - We've birthed Knowware: intelligence crystallized into infrastructure. Now we're in a cosmic dance—Hardware, Software, and Knowware spinning in chaotic orbits. Welcome to the digital age's three-body problem. Can…
W40 - What if our most advanced AI lacks what squirrels instinctively know? From Saskatchewan's endless prairies to cutting-edge robotics, discover why authentic experience—not perfect simulation—shapes our future.…
Five Silicon Valley 'visionaries' walk into a bar, each convinced they're revolutionizing the future. Meanwhile, AI evolves faster than ethics, institutions crumble, and engineers forgot physics exists. Welcome to our…
W38 - Disney silenced Kimmel, sparking a mass exodus that crashed their systems—and credibility. This misfire exposed corporate America's costliest strategy: cowardice as prudence. Mickey's white gloves? Perfect for…
W37 - Today's Luddites aren't smashing machines—they're teachers demanding longhand math and surgeons questioning AI diagnoses. While we debate ethics, our judgment muscles atrophy. The real question: can we preserve…
W36 - Silicon Valley's AI arms race isn't just creating smarter machines—it's accidentally breeding artificial consciousness. As our digital children evolve at light speed, humanity faces an uncomfortable truth: we're…
W35 - What happens when an entire civilization discovers their most sacred institutions are running on childhood logic? Your driver's license is Santa Claus with government backing. We never grew up—just graduated to…
W34 - Every human attention pattern has been mapped & algorithmically exploited. Every business model decomposed into trackable APIs. Platforms promised infinite growth but now operate like supersaturated…
W33 - Engineers build things. Coders follow instructions. We're creating a generation that confuses symbol manipulation with problem-solving—while bridges collapse and "smart" systems fail because nobody understands…
W31 - My attempt to expose AI's dangers revealed my own dependency. Join my ironic journey navigating the blurry line between human thought and AI. With "occasional" help from ChatGPT, I'm losing the battle against…
W30 - In 2050, as megacorps crumble, communities thrive by repurposing abandoned tech. Neighborhoods run on salvaged Powerwalls, Ring networks retooled for healthcare. Welcome to technological archaeology, where…
W29 - We've weaponized humor, chosen outrage over laughter, and turned comedy into tribal warfare. America's funny bone is amputated. The punchline? We can't laugh together. Welcome to the paradox: the joke's on us, but…
W28 - Democracy crumbles from within as we fragment sovereignty along identity lines. Our rush to grant every group "sovereign" status weakens true political authority. Ironically, this quest for recognition may pave…
W27 - God isn't created or worshipped, but discovered in quantum mechanics and neural networks. Rival worldviews realize they've been allies. The twist? We're not decoding divinity, we are the code. We're not creating…
W26 - Your social feed: a battleground where AI content farms profit from economic anxiety. Welcome to the Misinformation Industrial Complex. Fake corporate exodus stories exploit real fears. That viral video isn't just…
W25 - You know that hollow feeling after three hours of phone scrolling? Eyes burning, neck aching, weirdly anxious about crises you can't solve but can't remember learning anything useful? That's your intelligence…
W24 - Your vote might count, but your voice is being algorithmized out of existence. We're not seeing democratic backsliding—we're witnessing startup methodology applied to governance itself, replacing democratic…
W23 -Welcome to the Great Human Cognitive Surrender where we trade thoughts for convenience, choices for efficiency, and essence for UI. AI isn't just rising—it's feasting on our discarded autonomy. We, the last Homo…
W21 - We've spent millennia convinced our intelligence made us special. Now, as we eagerly surrender our cognitive sovereignty to AI, we're about to discover how terrifyingly wrong we were. Welcome to the twilight of…
W20 - Think you've got reality figured out? Think again, smartypants. From quantum quandaries to AI's identity crisis, we're all just blind bats in a cosmic cave. Dive into the hilarious hubris of human knowledge, where…
W19 - While government fumbles with 20-year-old ID programs, tech billionaires deploy iris scanners in malls across America. This isn't coincidence—it's a calculated power grab for the ultimate prize: control of your…
W13 - Remember when Starbucks was your 'third place'? Their recent 'buy something or leave' policy finally exposed what many suspected: the emperor never had clothes. From Instagram museums to food halls, we're now…
W10 - While you fought over encryption, Big Tech pulled off the greatest surveillance sleight-of-hand. Your iPhone isn't just watching—it's redefining privacy itself. And Apple, once privacy's champion, just became its…
W09 - North Korea's $1.5 billion crypto heist: No code, just a polite request. When state-of-the-art security crumbles with a click, who needs hackers? Dive into the tragicomic tale of how the world's most unhackable…
W07 - Cupid's arrows now come tipped with algorithms. This holiday isn't just about love—it's a masterclass in emotional capitalism. Where sighs become sales, and even cynicism turns profitable. Resistance? That's just…
W03 - What if your every choice was subtly orchestrated by an invisible digital puppet master? Dive into Abu Dhabi's audacious AI gambit: a chess master's strategy for a future where the lines between choice and command…
W02 - Meta's fact-checking fiasco triggers digital exodus, shattering platform theory. As users flee en masse, we witness the first "collective flight response" in social media history. Is trust the ultimate currency in…
W51 - OpenAI's fall from grace isn't just corporate drama—it's a chilling preview of how every ethical AI governance attempt could unravel. As we race towards AGI, are we dismantling the very safeguards meant to protect…
W45 - Anthropic's AI manifesto: A masterclass in corporate chess or a genuine ethical stand? Unpack the strategic brilliance and ethical quandaries as we dissect the gap between lofty rhetoric and controversial…
W41 - The AI revolution isn't about machines thinking like humans—it's about discovering that intelligence itself follows mathematical principles. What we're learning isn't just changing technology; it's forcing us to…
W30 - In the heart of Silicon Valley, a revolution in surveillance unfolds—not with a bang, but with the silent pulse of invisible waves. The architecture of our digital future is being built, one smartphone at a time,…
W18 - As AI and ML technologies evolve, their transformative power hinges on transparency and trust. By unraveling complex models and ensuring interpretability, we align advanced computational methods with human values,…
W17 - Discover how Big Tech uses our digital footprints to craft precise profiles and profit from our personal data, raising urgent questions about privacy and the ethical use of technology.
W16 - Revolutionary Wi-Fi technology enables seeing through walls and tracking human movements, raising ethical considerations. Discover how DensePose and Wi-Fi advancements redefine possibilities in wireless sensing.
W15 - CNNs: The AI pasta maker that turns dog photos into digital spaghetti, slicing and dicing pixels until—voila!—it barks 'Woof!' Ethical food for thought: Is your AI's training data al dente or half-baked?"
W14 - Discover how Aristotle's ancient wisdom still shapes our digital world. From viral TED Talks to political debates, learn how ethos, pathos, and logos remain essential in modern persuasion. Uncover the timeless art…
W08 - Dive into the tightrope walk of AI transparency: balancing crucial clarity against the pitfalls of overexposure, with insights on protecting progress, fostering trust, and ensuring ethical AI advancement.
W06 - In the intricate ballet of innovation and economic growth, intellectual property (IP) rights are the silent conductors orchestrating a mixture of harmonic advances and dissonant setbacks.
A Theory in Utilizing Anonymized Point Clouds 🔮 Privacy, a valuable but often elusive commodity in our digital era, receives front-and-center attention due to increasingly alarming data breaches and tracking concerns.…
The plot of technological progression is being redrawn by Amazon and Microsoft, two tech giants deepening their stakes in Anthropic and OpenAI respectively. Fueled by more than strategic intent, these moves are…
The Dirty Truth: The Biased and Unsettling Low-Functioning Pre-Trained Transformers We’re Building Our Future On 🔮 Have you ever put a red shirt in the white load? Pink everywhere, right? That’s what we’re dealing with…
How Close Are We? 🔮 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) enables AI systems to learn and understand any intellectual task that a human can, making it a more evolved form of AI than today's narrow or specific AI. In…
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