There’s a precise moment when you stop being nobody. Online Safety Act, Chat Control, eIDAS, KOSA: governments with incompatible traditions arriving at identical solutions. Universal scanning, mandatory identity, end of anonymity. The pretext is one. The infrastructure serves another.
Chat Control is the EU’s Trojan horse for mass surveillance: “voluntary” scanning, client-side detection, age verification and biometric IDs. How child protection becomes a pretext to erode privacy, anonymity and end-to-end encrypted communication.
wo billion, no product: with Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati pursues deterministic AI—always consistent and reproducible. Between the probabilistic path of LLMs and the rigidity of Symbolic AI, the goal is a batch-invariant runtime to remove variability and hallucinations. Opportunities for finance, research and governance; risks for human freedom and ambiguity. Can reality be reduced to language?
Hashtags began as a user-powered map of the web: open, decentralized, and fiercely democratic. Today, platforms push passive feeds and sideline that active choice. This piece tracks the arc from Chris Messina’s 2007 spark to Instagram’s 2024 de-prioritization, the “shadowban” chill, and the marketing chorus urging creators to drop tags. Verdict: hashtags still help human discovery and niche communities—exactly why platforms want them minimized. If you care about reach, autonomy, and culture, this is the battle line.
The Illusion of Free Choice Enter a world of Algorithms We like to believe we’re in control of our choices. But every time we scroll through a feed, click on a link, or hit play on…
The Algorithmic Eye FOLLOW THE ALGORITHM. Imagine entering a room full of clocks where all the hands move chaotically but show the same time: EVERYONE ON PLATFORM, EVERYONE SCROLLING, EVERYONE POSTING, EVERYONE LIKING, EVERYONE CHASING… FEEDBACK…
LinkedIn and Algorithmic Professionalism Social: A Toxic Ecosystem LinkedIn isn’t just another social platform. It’s a hyper-controlled arena where professionalism is a nonstop performance. You don’t communicate—you showcase. You don’t work—you display how well you work….
The Community of Automatons When Social efficiency Devours Freedom What is a community of automatons?…We live and interact immersed in digital flows that appear free — yet they’re constantly shaped, controlled, and monitored by algorithms. As…
The Web That Imprisons Us A Call to Resistance Against Digital Alienation This IS a call against digital alienation! an invitation to human resistance, we can no longer look the other way. Digital identity isn’t merely…
THE ALGORITHM HAS TAKEN CONTROL: The feed is its virtual temple, and we are its victims – welcome to social media 2025 Forget shopping as you knew it. Forget afternoons in stores and the adrenaline of…
Who Decided That for Us? We’re All Pro-Palestine.But what if you’re just part of an emotional machine? In 2025, if you haven’t posted the Palestinian flag at least once, you feel guilty. If you haven’t written…
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