For Claude to learn from experience, it has to decide what’s worth remembering before it knows what’s next.

Sort the apps your family uses and see the price you can’t see.

A report from the future on AI, attention, and the maintenance of civilization

Being intentional about ways that you access digital technology, making each use a conscious choice.

How browser fingerprinting replaces third-party cookies for persistent user tracking. And to the highest bidder it goes.

What happens when AI makes website migrations almost free?

What the 2026 numbers say about privacy and control, and guesses for where the privacy business goes next.

Old promises of new technologies.

Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake.

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

Is AI as interesting as what it helps you do? I don’t think it is, and I mean that as a compliment.

This interactive online hacker app will let you simulate that you’re hacking a computer or a digital network.

When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.

The case for a nature model that learns the state and dynamics of the planet itself.

How tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.

Online used to be a place you could leave.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.

A quick note about future of computing and indieweb.