A personal reckoning with David Wallace-Wells, then and now I pulled up the old episode again this week. The Doctor's Farmacy conversation with David Wallace-Wells — recorded in July 2019 — sat in my browser like a letter I had written to myself and forgotten to open. Back then, his book The Uninhabitable Earth was... Continue Reading →
How Google Tracks You — And Why It Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8clVdaRKA A field guide to the surveillance machine behind the search bar, and what to do about it. Google logged nearly 24,000 interactions with a single user in one month — and that user wasn’t even on Gmail. Every search, route, video, edit, and app download became another row in Google’s databases. This isn’t a... Continue Reading →
AI Is Compressing Cybersecurity Timelines: What Resilient Communities Must Do Now
Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity in one of the most important ways possible: it is compressing time. Threats that once took days or weeks to develop, test, and deploy can now move faster. Phishing messages can become more convincing. Impersonation attempts can become more personalized. Vulnerabilities can be discovered, analyzed, and acted on more quickly.... Continue Reading →