An opinion piece criticizing conventional cybersecurity career paths for beginners, arguing they are ineffective at developing practical skills.
An opinion piece critiquing Substack's partnership with Polymarket, arguing that prediction markets are simply rebranded gambling designed to evade gambling laws, and analyzing the venture capital pressures driving the platform toward desperate monetization strategies.
This is a political opinion piece criticizing Palantir CEO Alex Karp's statements about how AI technology will shift economic and political power away from educated Democratic voters toward working-class male voters, with commentary on military spending and unrelated political controversies.
A philosophical essay critiquing the utopian promises of cyberspace and digital permanence, contrasting Barlow's 1996 Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace with the material realities of server infrastructure, surveillance, and the author's firsthand experience helping develop Signal and witnessing design compromises that enabled weaponizable capabilities.
A critical essay arguing that much of the current AI boom represents 'tool-shaped objects'—systems that create the appearance and feeling of productive work without generating actual measurable output, comparing modern LLM infrastructure to FarmVille-style engagement mechanics designed to make users feel productive rather than be productive.