A Magic: The Gathering YouTuber found Pinkerton agents at his front door on Saturday morning

“We value your privacy…”, the clichéd beginning of many a privacy notice. I value my own online privacy, and whenever I read that phrase as part of a website consent banner it sounds like lip service at best. Consent banners ostensibly exist to give users control over their privacy and how their data is used. […]

A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™

When Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos were banned from social media, these were marketed as incidents that would only be reserved for rare cases. By the time Megan Murphy was banned from Twitter and Colin Wright removed from PayPal it was clear that a new social credit system had emerged where private corporations got to decide who was allowed to have a voice and which topics were acceptable for discussion. A social credit system can be defined as an infrastructure that gives an entity the ability to examine human profiles and give them ratings to gauge how desirable a set of humans is within a certain context. Based on the aforementioned desirability rating, a human can be blacklisted or whitelisted from activities based on thresholds and criteria set by the Social Credit System.

Far too many companies that should be focused on the advancement of humanity by providing valuable services have been deterred from this important mission. Take the example of Silicon Valley which served as a bastion of technological innovation but has been led astray by activism. Vague subjective concepts like

Four Questions Concerning The Internet, part two

The world could soon see the first religion that attracts devotees with sacred texts created by artificial intelligence, the historian Yuval Noah Harari has s

Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher

There are going to be many more bank failures as this ponzi system unravels. Unlike 2008, we have the ability to opt out of these broken and corrupt institutions by using bitcoin.

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

Four Questions Concerning The Internet, part one

From the early days of ARPANET until the dawn of the World Wide Web (WWW), the internet was primarily the domain of researchers, teachers and students, with hobbyists running their own BBS servers …

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Or, Why AI Regulations Should Begin with Mandated Disclosures

There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.

[This is a repost of a story which I wrote about five years ago and which was hosted on my old website until it went down.] 2,302,554,979 BC Galactic Core 9-tsiak awoke over endless crawling millis…

Niklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory.

The term autopoiesis refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts. The term was introduced in the 1972 publication Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to define the self-maintaining chemistry of living cells.