Three States Are Building Age Checks Into Our Phones and Computers
California, Colorado and Illinois have passed laws that make age classification part of your phone and computer. Privacy advocates warn that once this system is in place, it could make more invasive forms of identity verification much easier to expand.
Police Departments Are Using Opioid Settlement Funds to Buy Flock Cameras
Police agencies in at least 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement money on automated license-plate readers, including Flock cameras.
Anthropic Is Building AI to Surveil and Flag Anti-AI Activists Before They Act
Anthropic is building out a corporate intelligence operation that monitors activists, tracks protests near company executives and facilities, and in some cases alerts law enforcement before a crime has occurred.
The Cost of the Cloud: Big Tech’s Water Use Is Growing Beyond the Public’s View
The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, water and money.
Let's Imagine a Future Where AI Oligarchs Don't Destroy Rare Books to Feed Their Models
The pursuit of ‘high-quality training data’ at any cost is a window into the psychoses that drive modern tech oligarchs who view all as subservient to profit and ‘progress.’
The Cost of the Cloud: Big Tech’s Extractive Energy Demand Is Becoming Everyone Else’s Problem
The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, in water and in money.
The ‘Trillion Dollar’ Man: SpaceX and the Great Passive Wealth Transfer
This first installment of The Trillion Dollar Man examines SpaceX’s public listing as a case study in how retirement defaults, index rules and founder-controlled governance can place ordinary workers’ savings inside companies they may never choose or meaningfully influence
Inside the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Long Fight for Digital Freedom
For 36 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has challenged the surveillance, censorship and corporate control shaping modern life online.
Meet Focused Space, the Body Doubling Platform Building Better Conditions for Neurodivergent Workers
For neurodivergent remote workers, Focused Space turns structure, shared presence and small acts of care into the conditions that make work possible.
The Lost Art of Looking Up: How Constant Connection Is Changing Our Relationships
No, you’re not imagining it, our phones are making conversations with family, friends and strangers more difficult.
How Male ‘Loneliness’ Became a Market for Digital Exploitation
The Making of Deepfake Abuse—and the Lonely Men Behind It.
Inside the Tech Stack Keeping Deepfake Abuse Profitable
How platforms, advertisers and tech infrastructure providers profit from non-consensual sexual imagery while avoiding direct accountability.
Scaling Harm: Platforms, Profits and the Rise of AI Sexual Abuse
How AI image tools, platform design and global distribution networks have enabled non-consensual sexual imagery to scale faster than enforcement.
Meet The Indie Marketplaces Challenging Big Tech’s Grip on Small Sellers
The e-com rebels refusing Big Tech’s rules.
Faith in the Machine: On Techno-utopianism, Mortality and the Religion of Innovation
Technology, transcendence and the fear of death.
