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Philosophy

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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cybernetics

Technology is the Problem

The refrain once urged us to expand: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Its inversion is now the survival mechanism: Tune out, turn off, drop in. Digital platforms have mastered the art of capture. They are not designed to serve us but to extract attention, time, and revenue from us. The architecture is parasitic—every click […]