Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.
October 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.
🇫🇷 Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they had been hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to defrost in hundreds of stores, forcing spoilt food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. ➡️ u.afp.com/SCxU
Demonstrably, it is possible to undo a technology. Now that that's established, we should make good decisions about which technologies to undo and keep. Like, undo the expensive technology that sucks and kills people, and un-undo the technology that saves lives at very low personal and social costs
October 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Demonstrably, it is possible to undo a technology. Now that that's established, we should make good decisions about which technologies to undo and keep. Like, undo the expensive technology that sucks and kills people, and un-undo the technology that saves lives at very low personal and social costs
No more smart technology in the home. Let's have dumb technology. Dumb as a box of rocks technology. For example, a refrigerator that you just plug-in, and there's a little tiny dial inside to adjust the temperature. 
October 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
No more smart technology in the home. Let's have dumb technology. Dumb as a box of rocks technology. For example, a refrigerator that you just plug-in, and there's a little tiny dial inside to adjust the temperature. 
much as cheap Chinese solar panels are an enabling technology for industrialization in Africa, cheap Chinese EVs could be an enabling technology for stabilizing American politics
October 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
much as cheap Chinese solar panels are an enabling technology for industrialization in Africa, cheap Chinese EVs could be an enabling technology for stabilizing American politics