Everything "AI" is a combination of the Wild West, the dot-com hype bubble of 1998-2002, Tulip Mania in 1637, and massively negative resource and environmental impacts.
August 2025 Newsletter
In this month's newsletter, most of the links/articles below cover issues relating to privacy and "AI."
July 2025 Newsletter
This month's curated links focus on wide-sweeping privacy issues and consumer device repairability.
April 2025 Newsletter
We're getting a rude but overdue 'wake up call' on our digital sovereignty, and it's time to step up to the challenge.
March 2025 Newsletter
The UK might have just broken encryption, and thus privacy, for all Apple users.
February 2025 Newsletter
This month, we cover many AI and security/privacy challenges out in the wild from January.
January 2025 Newsletter
Looking back, 2024 was a challenging year, especially for privacy-focused consumer technology changes.
December 2024 Newsletter
Most of this month's links and mentions are security and privacy related.
November 2024 Newsletter
"AI" hype continues to grow, Apple released a bunch of new product updates, and NVidia is now the world's largest company by market cap; articles below are focused on the challenging tug-of-war between privacy (or deterioration of it) and machine-learning "land grab" issues.
September 2024 Newsletter
This month, we're focusing on the usual smattering of tech and privacy news, but I'm mostly posting an update about my electronics product design and engineering developments.