When the Shortage is the Strategy
Companies discovered during the pandemic that they could raise prices far beyond costs and never lower them. Now the formula is being applied deliberately.
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With AI, The Oddly Specific Survives
The Devil is in the details. A shallow look at how your voice gets into AI, and why I believe it's worth it.
How AI May Impact CMS Architecture
Enterprises pay platform prices for a content database with a UI bolted on. AI removes the reason that bundle ever existed.
Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach
Modern PC games make you install a ring-0 anti-cheat driver you can't audit.
The Demoralization of The White-Collar Worker
The implicit contract — work hard, stay employed, build a life — is broken.
Data Brokers Part 2: Surveillance Pricing
For most of commerce a price was a single public number, the same for everyone who looked at it. Surveillance pricing replaces it with a private one — set not by what a thing costs but by what a model believes you, in particular, will pay. A history of how that number came apart, why the practice survives only in concealment, and why it falls hardest on those least able to refuse.
Data Brokers Part 1: Unregulated Forensic Analysis
An industry of hundreds of registered data brokers maintains files on every American adult; identity graphs bind the files to people with near-total coverage; a marketplace layer makes the result queryable by any company with a cloud account; models convert the files into predictions that increasingly price everything you buy.
The AI Bubble
The AI buildout is the largest capital expenditure in the history of the technology industry. The financial structure holding it together has a name.
Appearing Productive in The Workplace
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.