While applying for this visa stuff, I'm seeing passport privilege in real time. I'm handling the paperwork and looking at the Resident Visa Health Check that I need to do. The tests include…

A Dear Prudence reader who needs to unplug from current events every few weeks asks (search "autism and ADHD") what to do about people who "accuse me of not caring about what's happening outside my…

Daily ugliness quietly shapes how we see the world. Rediscovering beauty in everyday life restores our sense of care, harmony, and meaning. Beauty is not just decoration, it’s a psychological…

Users of the Cardano wallet SecondFi (formerly Yoroi) have lost a cumulative 16 million ADA (~$2.4 million) across three attacks targeting a vulnerability in the project's wallet generation code.…

Asterisk Magazine, which aspires to be The New Yorker of effective altruism, has a piece profiling “AI doomers” which, even after reviewing the author’s other sincere engagements…

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple PodcastsWhat if AI could help prevent sexual assault before it happens — without tracking users, judging them, or handing them a verdict?In this…

.post .post-content { margin-top: 0px; } LLMs are exhausting because they require spending precious social energy to operate them. Energy that might be better spent on people. When you use a good…

My man Hendrik over on Bluesky: How can we reach people like this and show them that their understanding of AI coding is fundamentally wrong, and that the reason they’re not finding a job is…

Bacon. A staple of the hearty American breakfast. It’s the breakfast of champions since the dawn of time, right? Actually, no. Eating a big hearty breakfast (with bacon of course) is a result of a…

Let me ask you this: Do you absolutely, 100% need to be an influencer to succeed online? We recently had a debate about the big names of the online world in ​The Council​. We spoke about…

I ended the last post on a promise. That one was about the day I stopped doubting AI coding agents, and about how much further they let a single experienced engineer reach: things you can now build…

An interesting thought.

I’ve been asked, “Hey, Sam, if you’re not interested in pursuing traditional publishing anymore, why not self-publish?” And I’ll tell you why not. It has nothing to do with looking down on…

A couple weeks ago I wrote that your organization has to learn as fast as your best AI adopter. Externalize, combine, socialize, internalize. Run Nonaka’s spiral or get left behind. A bunch of…

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

Post: 25 June 2026New blog post on my website:Middlesbrough Council has released its Council Tax address list as open dataNo UPRNs unfortunately, so no map

Why reducing cognitive load creates communities where more people can participate, connect, and thrive Accessibility is often treated like a technical requirement. Add captions. Upload a transcript.…

Greasing the wheels of Africa's healthcare system.

How the New York Times changed its coverage of trans people from The Dissident. Spoiler alert: it's not great. I mean - the article/research is excellent. The outcome isn't.

The cruelty is the point.

The scary part of Meditations On Moloch is not that evil people exist. The scary part is that evil outcomes can happen without evil people. Scott Alexander uses Moloch as a name for bad incentive…

Most of what we chase rests on people we can no longer be bothered to need. A walk from the history of the clock, through the anthropology of money, to an uncomfortable place: the deepest cage isn't…

Recently I came across the “Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics”, a term defined by Jai Dhyani in a now-offline blog post: When you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed…

A co-written piece grieving software development from the clubroom.

AI slop is easy to recognize after the fact. It is the landing page with a purple-blue gradient, Inter, three rounded feature cards, and a headline that could belong to any SaaS company. It is the…

Capital won't save you from disempowerment.

Introduction Note: The research and tooling covered in this post are not my original work,. All credit goes to Yaxxine7 for creating the ASRepCatcher tool and doing all the heavy lifting! AS-REP…

Digital Dugnad Dump Big Tech Make the Switch Make the switch. The Digital Dugnad campaign highlights four actions you can take - Switch your browser. Switch your search engine. Move your email.…

GenAI is not a bubble ready to burst. It's an elastic band, pulled taught. Stretched by frontier AI companies pushing a doom and disruption narrative. Pulled by spammers and scammers and…

Yesterday, I sent a friend who works in a hospital in Scotland the Egyptian Ministry of Health's guidelines for managing psychiatric inpatients during heatwaves. These guidelines were developed and…

The modern JavaScript ecosystem is incredible. If you need a utility, library or framework for anything it’s probably out there in the npm registry. Things that used to take us a week are now…

In the modern West, when a company wants to innovate, it summons a workshop. Sticky notes appear. Someone draws a Venn diagram. A facilitator, paid handsomely, asks everyone how they might "ideate"…

Yesterday I received a spam e-mail from superpower.com lying to me about having read one of my articles.

I have two books coming out in the next six months! First, GOOD VIBES ONLY: PHENOMENOLOGY & THE BIOPOLITICS OF ALGORITHMIC LEGITIMATION publishes November 17, but you can pre-order it now on the…

This is not transvetigating. Transvestigating is a term for when transphobic people point to "biological" reasons why someone is trans, and use it as a way to push the idea of some major trans agenda…

The greatest power is invisibility

I gave a keynote today at an event on “AI and Accountability” hosted by the Children’s Rights Alliance, and I used it to untangle two ideas; that we can love tech while also…

Pinch me. John Gruber , providing commentary on my last post: It’s bad enough to include 161 third-party trackers on a website. But it’s downright dystopic to declare your 161 third-party “partners”…

Every now and then I go digging through Report URI's Threat Intelligence data feeds, looking for domains that show up in CSP reports where they really shouldn't. Last week one jumped out at…

Von Welt+-Paywall bis GTA VI als Digital-only-Release: Warum Plattformmacht und fehlende Verbraucherrechte digitale Güter zum Problem machen.

Last year, one guy made an observation about some Americans' descent into a tribal, impulsive mindset that steamrolls over civility and reason. I think he's on to something.

I’m hoping this book will help me learn how machines learn. HOBOKEN, JUNE 24, 2026.  I think I’ve solved my AI dilemma.On the one hand: The ongoing explosion of AI is the biggest science story…

  So, you have successfully completed your master’s degree in international security, international relations, history, intelligence studies or something similar, and you are very…

As I mentioned in my previous post, I went to OER26 this week, back at the Open University. Huge congrats to Rob and Beck for chairing such a great conference. Like all good conferences it helped…

There’s a lot of talk about “AI” and “LLMs” recently. Here are my thoughts, experiences, and perspectives about all that. There seems to be a growing rift in the…

Photo: © Stan B. Imagine waking up, walking down your block and finding Darth Vader's Headquarters right smack in the middle of what was once a picture book, beautiful, American town. Past tense.…

↳ “The girl who was supposed to be your girlfriend was taken from you a long time ago, sodomized out of reality. Nothing is going to bring her back.” On the morning of Monday, June 22nd, 2026, a…

WARNING: Spoilers for The Amazing Digital Circus and Die June saw the month saw the release of conclusion of The Amazing Digital Circus and the sequel to Die , Die Loaded. Both are interesting…

AI capability does not produce delegation. Trust does, and trust is a function of four variables: continuity, shared context, boundary clarity, and an inspectable track record. The industry races…