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Big Tech Is Compromised: How to Reduce Your Footprint

As a user, Consider Offshoring Your Data and Services Privacy is a human right. Privacy requires data protection. I want America to do better. I want American tech companies to do better. I think that will take a long time, and while we work on it, we are where we are because we allowed it all to happen. At this point, there’s a good argument for considering all Big Tech, prominent US-hosted services, some US-made software and, since long, the entire US network essentially compromised, at minimum as far as privacy goes. The tech oligarchs are seemingly submitting to the current regime, and some are directly involved with what’s likely the most significant personal data breach in history. The eventual result of all this could make Snowden-era PRISM, Boundless Informant, MUSCULAR and XKeyscore surveillance mechanisms look like baby monitors. ...

February 28, 2025 · 5 min · 1001 words

Autism, Algorithms and Authoritarianism

Autism and Fascism Have Crossed Paths Before—but Not How You Think “Information wants to be free”, observed Stewart Brand during a discussion with Steve Wozniak at the 1984 Hackers Conference. In hindsight, it was a simple, almost cute mantra for us. Perhaps it should’ve been obvious that it would hold doubly true for mis- and disinformation. I think we just naively assumed that everyone sought to share the truth in accordance with science and reason. We were just trying to figure the machines out, no fear. ...

February 13, 2025 · 4 min · 651 words