The greatest threat from Big Tech isn’t superior intelligence. It’s ordinary stupidity armed with extraordinary power.
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How engagement incentives, selective censorship and data extraction weaken cooperation, and why peace depends on changing what our communications systems reward.
Technology, corporate power, political division and institutional decay are undermining civilisation. Understanding how these forces reproduce themselves is the beginning of change.
A system that discourages difference eventually undermines its own capacity to learn, adapt and survive.
From Starlink and Ukraine to everyday technology, technocratic overextension exposes a dangerous paradox: civilisation increasingly depends on systems that (mostly) function as intended, but whose continued availability is controlled elsewhere, by political and ideological interests we may not share.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.
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selling subscription selves
We no longer simply use technology, we now continuously rebuild ourselves and our lives into forms it can recognise, predict and sell.
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Life is wonderful…
…and the world still offers beauty without asking for an account, a password, a dashboard, a technical-debt register, or a defensible reason; nevertheless, we now live inside a rusting scaffold of technological systems, each one Frankenstein-rebuilt from yesterday’s failures and sold as tomorrow’s cure. Social media is only the visible rash. Beneath it sits the […]
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Inside the Cognitive War
A cognitive war is not simply about what you think. It is a war over how you think, because once the structure, code, and cadence of thought, of language, of behaviour are altered, the content becomes easy to steer. Some of these biases are ancient, natural, even necessary: shortcuts of perception, habits of inferential prediction, […]
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Diminishing Returns
I am withdrawing from almost all U.S.-based digital subscriptions; soon, all. This is not a symbolic gesture or an act of ideological theatre. It is a practical decision grounded in observation. Platform governance is converging with corporate and political power into a single operational field, where economic alignment determines visibility, legitimacy, and survival. The architecture […]
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Dystopian Technocracy
The system persists not because it is strong, but because responsibility for its failures is continually exported onto those with the least capacity to refuse it. Dystopian technocracy is not a future — it is the operating mode of now. Nothing is load-bearing, yet the system behaves as though its own simulations were reality. What […]
