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Let's untangle our sociotechnical world & change it.
Oct 20, 2024
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🤖 AI isn’t ‘hallucinating.’ We are.
Jun 4, 2023
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The Infinite Manosphere
Mar 2, 2025
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Transparency! It’s, uh, complicated.
Oct 16, 2022
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🎧 Unfollow your friends!
May 19, 2024
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What Must Remain Human?
Don't start with automation. Start here.
Feb 14
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What If We Regulated Chatbots Like Any Other Product?
Listen now | My conversation with Ben Winters, Director of AI and Privacy at Consumer Federation of America
Feb 7
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The Intelligence of a Hunch
What AI Will Never Have
Jan 31
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Join my new subscriber chat
A private space for us to chat and connect
Jan 27
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When Your AI Assistant Becomes an Advertiser
My conversation with Miranda Bogen, Director of AI Governance Lab at the Center for Democracy & Technology
Jan 24
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The Age of Myth-Making
Digital technologies have changed the way we read and write — what comes next?
May 4, 2025
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There’s no such thing as ‘fully autonomous’ agents
Don’t ‘fully self-drive’ yourself to an early grave…
Apr 6, 2025
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The Infinite Manosphere
We need a positive vision of masculinity ASAP
Mar 2, 2025
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Trapped by the Pursuit of Efficiency
When tech is the end goal, we lose sight of everything that truly matters.
Feb 2, 2025
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The Church of Number Go Up
Is crypto a casino? A church? A new kind of infrastructure? The answer is: yes
Dec 1, 2024
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⚒️ Systems Change
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How to do the next right thing
Chatbot speak, unreliable tools, and directions not targets.
Jun 26, 2025
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How to engage your system amidst uncertainty
A guide for working with uncertainty.
Jun 5, 2025
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How to determine if you’re dealing with a 'complex system'
A guide for embracing complexity & adaptive strategies
May 29, 2025
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How to define your system
A guide for identifying clear boundaries, and avoiding 'unintended consequences.'
May 22, 2025
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How to map backward from the future
PLUS: Get a free copy of my first e-book, AI Untangled
May 15, 2025
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🔮 Artificial Intelligence
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41:08
What If We Regulated Chatbots Like Any Other Product?
Listen now | My conversation with Ben Winters, Director of AI and Privacy at Consumer Federation of America
Feb 7
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The Intelligence of a Hunch
What AI Will Never Have
Jan 31
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Rethinking Goals in an Uncertain World
Why relationships—not rigid targets—are the key to meaningful systems change.
Aug 10, 2025
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Flattery as a Feature: Rethinking 'AI Sycophancy'
PLUS: Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud
Aug 3, 2025
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8:20
There’s no such thing as ‘fully autonomous’ agents
Don’t ‘fully self-drive’ yourself to an early grave…
Apr 6, 2025
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How to analyze the frames and metaphors that hide power in AI
A guide to interrogating rhetorical power in sociotechnical systems
Mar 9, 2025
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Trapped by the Pursuit of Efficiency
When tech is the end goal, we lose sight of everything that truly matters.
Feb 2, 2025
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Can we democratize AI?
My conversation with Divya Siddarth, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project
Dec 20, 2024
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📺 Media & Tech
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The Infinite Manosphere
We need a positive vision of masculinity ASAP
Mar 2, 2025
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The Age of Participatory Media
Let's generate 'cold media,' shall we?
Jan 12, 2025
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Building healthy local communities online & off
A conversation with Deepti Doshi, Co-Director, New_Public
Dec 15, 2024
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Block, build, be
A conversation about the work ahead with Anya Kamenetz, creator of The Golden Hour
Dec 8, 2024
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Fragment the media! Embrace the shards!
For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity
Nov 3, 2024
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🎧 Unfollow your friends!
An interview with Louis Barclay, creator of Unfollow Everything.
May 19, 2024
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🧠 Synthetic social media
Internet users, brace for the emergence of E-Swift
Jan 7, 2024
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36:10
Pretty privilege, appearance labor, and worthiness.
PLUS: Get a free, signed copy of Elise Hu's new book, Flawless.
Sep 24, 2023
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Elise Hu
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🤑 Crypto
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The Myth of the Crowd: How Prediction Markets Reflect Power, Not Wisdom
Trump's AI Action Plan, confident conspiracy theorists, and ChimpGPT.
Jul 27, 2025
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The $TRUMP Token
How 'social tokens' will turn influencers, celebrities, and apparently, politicians, into stocks
Jan 26, 2025
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The narrators of the "Tech Industrial Complex."
The problem of the techno-determinist mindset.
Jan 19, 2025
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Are blockchains immutable?
A dive into the collective belief that ‘yes, assets CAN be digital, and you CAN own them!’
Dec 29, 2024
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Crypto Untangled
A book about crypto for the curious skeptic.
Dec 18, 2024
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The Church of Number Go Up
Is crypto a casino? A church? A new kind of infrastructure? The answer is: yes
Dec 1, 2024
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🧠 In crypto, everything is a ponzi
…until sometimes, it’s not.
Mar 3, 2024
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Who are you?
A wonky romp through identity, classification, and power.
Dec 4, 2022
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