When nationalism, cybercrime, organized crime, geopolitics, and territory meet.
Some themes to apply to current times. Solid times One of the themes of mine is the return of various…
The gentrification of suffering
Gentrification has three meanings. All refer to a kind of relentless nicening, the civilizing process at work. First a process…
Smells like 极 客精神
One theme of mine is territorialization of the digital world, and the tight relationship between cyber criminals and their governments….
Trump is a turf warrior: crypto as a digital territory.
Nobody talks much about capillary power these days. Probably because we have too many lessons in actual power. This was…
A positive case for AI from the perspective of being disabled.
AI has become something of a bogeyman and it is not helpful to view the technology in this way. It…
The compliance script in hybrid fraud
It helps a scammer if the victim thinks they would never be the kind of person who falls for scams….
Radicalisation or self discovery? Desire in a turbulent world
There has been a lot of recent conversation about radicalisation through different forms. Mumsnet has been blamed for radicalising its…
AI assumptions to be wary of
Tech doesn’t kill people, over capitalised techbros kill people. We are in the tail end of the AI hype/panic cycle….
Critical thinking, what even is that? Advice from Thanos
That thing we tell you to do, and never show you how to do it? Critical thinking is all about…
Institutions have duties beyond themselves and the cultural moment
… Otherwise they would not actually be institutions at all. That is basically what an institution is, as opposed to…
