It’s a tone-deaf message coming out of the EU right now (pun not intended) First, right-wing extremist politicians pushed a literal detention center campaign of 1940 Nazi Germany (Madagascar Plan to detain non-citizens in relocation hubs in Afric…

The German government yesterday, along with the EU, announced that it was approving large “black sites” and “migration hubs” that disappear people for months, or perhaps forever if history is any guide. …text notably enabl…

October 3, 1993. Most know it as “Black Hawk Down”. Now, a new report using the “Little Bird” Night Stalkers perspective sheds light on a long forgotten and missing After Action Report. American forces launched rapidly in Somali…

Wer in Berlin ‘n Reisepass beantragt, seine Steuer über ELSTER abjibt, sich ‘n Termin im Bürgeramt erkämpft oder sich bei seine Krankenkasse einloggt, macht det allet inne Rendering-Engine, die er nich kontrolliert, nich prüfen kann un die …

Elon Musk ist ein Produkt eines Staates, der als permanente Menschenjagd organisiert war. Das Apartheid-Südafrika funktionierte mit Passgesetzen, Rassenregistern und einem Sicherheitsapparat, dessen tägliche Arbeit darin bestand, eine rassifizierte Bev…

Elon Musk is a product of a state organized as a permanent hunt of humans. Apartheid South Africa ran on pass laws, racial registries, and a security apparatus whose daily work was pursuing a racialized population through the streets. He did not observ…

I read an essay called “Software Talmud #00” about software development that felt like a hall of mirrors. It is a pile of quotations that argue against making piles. I found that amusing, to say the least. It invokes the Talmud, which it de…

Remember that one time in America an electric car inventor got pushed out of his own company by a wealthy charlatan, who went on to lying to investors all the way to bankruptcy? Like so many others, he thought electric vehicles (EVs) were the obvious a…

In the spring of 1381 the English crown levied a poll tax on everyone aged fifteen and over. To verify age the collectors were said to need to inspect bodies directly. The story goes, perhaps exaggerated, perhaps a metaphor to expose state-sanctioned r…

Margaret Hu has been making this argument for years, before I caught up to it. She is a professor of law at William and Mary, directs the Digital Democracy Lab, and has testified before Congress on AI regulation. She just mentioned the separation of AI…