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Latest — 31 Jul 2025

You Are the Product. And the Inventory. And the Profit.

You weren’t browsing. You were being priced. Every tap, pause, scroll, glance—it’s all logged. Not to help you. Not really. To help them decide who gets to see what, when, and why. You are not the customer. You are the meat in the algorithm’s grinder. They

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Propaganda with a Like Button

They didn’t need to burn books. They just flooded the shelves. We thought the danger would be censorship. Instead, it’s distraction. Every feed is a firehose. But not of truth—of noise. Memes pretending to be meaning. Outrage dressed as activism. And we scroll, thinking we're

The Algorithm Wears War Paint

We didn’t evolve to scroll. We evolved to belong. But when the village square is infinite, curated, and algorithmically angry, something ancient gets hacked. Tribes used to be made of proximity, shared bread, knowing glances. Now they’re built from hashtags, outrage, and memes. And once you’re in—

The Hidden Cost of Clever

AI is clever. Really clever. It can write poems, predict demand, diagnose disease. But for every brilliant answer it gives, there’s a server farm somewhere burning through water, electricity, and silicon like it’s infinite. Which it isn’t. Training a single large AI model can emit as much

Who’s Driving This Thing?

We used to worry about robots taking our jobs. Now the robots are making hiring decisions. We used to worry about AI writing fake news. Now AI decides what we see, what we believe, and who gets to speak. And the crazy part? We still talk about “artificial intelligence” like

AI Ethics Isn't a Feature

We don’t trust a bridge because the bolts are ethical. We trust it because the engineers who designed it were. Ethics isn’t something you slap on after the fact. It's not a checklist, a marketing angle, or a department tucked away in legal. It's

The Mirror Doesn’t Blink

The calculator didn’t kill math. It just changed what we thought was worth solving. Now the machines can write, paint, code, compose, even pretend to feel. But imitation isn’t intention. And prediction isn’t presence. AI is very good at being fast. But it’s still bad at

Bias Is a Mirror, Not a Glitch

You didn’t build a monster. You built a mirror. Every click, every comment, every correction—it all feeds the loop. The algorithm doesn’t invent bias. It reflects it. At scale. With precision. And still, we act surprised when it points back at us. Blaming the AI is like

No Room for Chance

We used to stumble on greatness. A song at a party. A book passed over a fence. A stranger’s idea that cracked open your worldview. Now the feed has plans for you. Serendipity doesn’t convert well. It’s inefficient. Hard to scale. Not safe enough for sponsors. So

Moral Debt Accrues Interest

We ship it because it works. Not because it’s right. Not because it’s fair. Just because it compiles. Every shortcut, every trade-off, every "we’ll fix that later"—it piles up. Invisible to the eye, but not to the world it touches. Ethical debt doesn’t