Axon Is Quietly Becoming the Thing We Fought Flock To Stop
15 min read
Cities are ripping out Flock cameras and replacing them with Axon systems that do the same job from inside a streetlight
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Build-a-Cult: The Peter Thiel Retreat That Wasn't Supposed to Exist
9 min read
A data leak exposed Dialog, Peter Thiel's secretive elite network. The agenda -- "Build-a-Cult," "Navigating WWIII," senators off the record with their regulators -- isn't the scandal. The architecture is.
One Rejection, Fifty Jobs: The Algorithmic Monoculture Quietly Blacklisting You
16 min read
The job market sells the illusion of fifty independent chances. Consolidation collapsed them into a few shared algorithms, so one auto-rejection quietly becomes many, and the data point follows you for a year.
The Road Warrior Was Wrong About One Thing: It Won't Be Oil. It'll Be Water.
11 min read
AI data centers are drinking billions of gallons of freshwater while 4 billion people already face water scarcity. The dystopian resource wars may be closer than we think, just not the ones Hollywood predicted.