Or how a very broken Dutch language website has filled me with technical & data protection rage.

Or how Silicon Valley builds cultlike followings and why they work, with a bonus covering AI Safety.

The OpenAI/Hugging Face breach is real. So was 9/11. The question isn't whether the fear is justified, it's who gets to write the response.

Meta is taking a page from professional wrestling. And demonstrating what happens when tech companies become too big to govern.

Every so often, the law actually works

Meta Ray-Bans are the modern-day version of the pervert trench coat. Time to take a page from Dan Savage and "reframe" them.

I explain why the AI slop detector potentially violates Article 22 GDPR, and what you can (possibly) do about it if you're in the EU/UK.

An export-control order in June exposed the real problem—and why Europe's regulatory toolkit can't fix it.

Alternatively, why people probably shouldn't ask me for advice unless they're willing to hear the unvarnished truth.

The Trump administration banned Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models for a vulnerability GPT 5.5 also has. This isn't governance—it's competitors weaponizing state power against a rival.

Last week the EU, the White House, OpenAI, and Anthropic all moved on AI governance. Every proposal protects the incumbents. Here's why that convergence is the tell.

I attended my first Effective Altruism Global event last weekend. Here are a few of my thoughts as a EAG virgin.

Also, a few thoughts on what I'm thinking and writing about

Why wanting a little tech friction != equal censorship.

Re-identification of a pseudonym isn't new. It's just become frictionless.

Worldcoin, Sam Altman, privacy, and why I hate being right sometimes.

Mythos is the leverage that Anthropic will use to get Trump to TACO out

Free and subsidized doorbell cameras and facial recognition systems leave everyone less free in the end.

... But probably not before August 2, 2026

I improved on my AI-powered research assistant to handle the toil while I focus on the insights. Here's what I learned along the way.

I like Anthropic a lot, but I worry about whether its extensity makes it too big to govern.

Sometimes legislation is so dumb, it needs the full Carey treatment. Ladies and gents, I present to you, the Wyoming GRANITE Act.

Big Tech companies like Google, SpaceX, and Meta aren't just monopolies—they're becoming ungovernable through tech extensivity. Why €4B in fines went uncollected.

OpenAI is building a ladder to comprehensive surveillance. Each rung delivers value—ChatGPT, health tools, wearables, BCIs—while collecting everything about you

ChatGPT Health is a small part of a much larger plan to learn everything about you. In this post, I talk about what's driving them and how they might get there.

Sometimes I wish Substack existed when I was in my 20s.

Fair warning, in case you want to re-evaluate your life choices.

Grok is spewing out CSAM on X, and yet politicians are happily still using the platform anyway. The problem is, they're also passing draconian laws.

Here's how I did it and what I learned. Plus, humor, cats, and link to the source code.

A stream-of-consciousness mental reflection on a great piece of writing.

Remembering our most chill fur baby, who died very suddenly.

Or how Silicon Valley builds cultlike followings and why they work.

A review of some of Robert Greene's 48 laws, and whether they still have relevance today.

Researchers expose the privacy disaster that is Agentic AI Browsers. I break it all down.

And That's a Huge Problem

I forgot just how much I miss that kind of crazy nerd energy.

Just a heads up to the change-averse: I'm shifting focus on this blog. I won't be upset if you decide it's not for you any longer.

Elon Musk is the poster child for not doing ketamine. But when he said the quiet part of the AI arms race out loud, I still got worried.

No, that trip to Disneyland really isn't worth it.

If you're in the EU, this is the last day you've got to opt out of Meta scraping all your posts from Facebook & IG to train its AI

I spoke at the recent IAPP Barcelona event and I learned so much about communicating complex ideas and the value of translation, precisely because I don't really speak Spanish!

A few thoughts on this year's Venice Privacy Symposium, and an upcoming speaking gig in Barcelona!

Microsoft never reads my blog posts, but really they should, because Recall is a Privacy Disaster

They also tell Apple to knock it off when it comes to the App Store.

Timothy Snyder's book, On Tyranny, offers 20 lessons on how to survive authoritarianism. I share some thoughts on Lesson 14 -- Establish a private life.

Orange Julius Caesar signed a new Executive Order seeking to centralize US government data. I explain why this is a terrible thing, by way of my generally poor grasp of Lord of the Rings lore.

FAFO doesn't work in the US Government, and yet nobody bothered to let Elon or the Administration know.

This blog will be undergoing a few changes—given the state of the world, everything sacred feels like it’s under threat. Constantly. And I need to do something.

I relate my speaker style to jazz improv, and share some thoughts on other SXSW sessions I attended.

I'm at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week, and, well it's a spectacle.