Discord will begin enforcing mandatory global age verification by requiring users to submit a face scan or government ID to access adult content and full platform features. Starting in March, every user account will be barred from age-restricted servers or live chat features until they comply with the system. The […]
Governments never present control as control. It is always framed as protection. In France, the justification is shielding children from harmful content online. But once the state begins targeting tools designed to preserve privacy and free access, the issue is no longer child safety but authority over the internet itself. […]
America, it’s time to refamiliarize yourself with Ring. At Sunday’s Super Bowl, Ring advertised “Search Party,” a cute, horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for a lost dog: “One post of a dog’s […]
AI misidentifies body parts, and gives wrong directions to surgeons on where to cut. No problemo, right? Wrong. The FDA can’t handle all the complaints coming from AI-assisted technology in surgery rooms. Technocrats like Larry Ellison promise AI solutions for all healthcare needs, from cancer to surgery. When it fails, […]
Rulers of Reason: The Historical Path of Technocracy Imagine a world where your city’s traffic is managed by algorithms smarter than the best drivers, where environmental policies are crafted by climate scientists rather than politicians, and where economic strategies are designed by seasoned economists who can predict market trends with remarkable accuracy. […]
Liberation from the Grid: The Promise of True Decentralization Centralized systems are not just inefficient; they are instruments of control. Whether it’s the power grid dictating your thermostat settings [1], Big Tech manipulating search results to suppress dissent [2], or a captured medical establishment profiting from your sickness, centralized power inherently creates […]
Introduction: The Great AI Deception of 2025 Last year, pundits and skeptics declared artificial intelligence had hit a wall. They claimed the AI bubble was deflating, that machine cognition had plateaued, and that human ingenuity would remain irreplaceable. They were catastrophically wrong. The year 2026 has arrived, and with it, […]
The 15-minute city (FMC) is an urban planning concept designed to meet the sustainability targets and indicators pursuant with Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11). The international construction of 15-minute cities is a global project that is being rolled out in the UK in cities like Oxford and Bath. The local council’s […]
Please note: this post is also available on my Substack. ***********************The 15-minute city (FMC) is an urban planning concept designed to meet the sustainability targets and indicators pursuant with Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11). The international construction of 15-minute cities is a global project that is being rolled out in the UK in […]
The only missing component for a full-on digitalized control grid is tokenized digital/programmable “money” but Trump administration is working on that too. As of February 1, the Trump administration’s crackdown on non-compliant American citizens flying without a federal government-approved REAL ID will result in them being charged an extra fee […]