The Waving Cat

Here’s something I’ve been struggling with: We live in a time where two systems of political economy have failed: socialism and capitalism.

I’ve long argued that in terms of digital transformation, Germany is easily ten years behind — behind not just the state of the art, but behind its European peers as well.

What if we have been reading the Musk story wrong?

A short while ago, there was a now-infamous incident over at OpenAI: One of their AI models, during security testing, escaped and launched an attack on Hugging Face, an online platform for AI researchers to share information and collaborate.

There Used To Be A Time (TM) where discussions on social media, especially on Twitter, were indicative of relevance — at least of relevance within certain communities: If things trended on Twitter, there was a plausible chance that the topic discussed had…

In a connected world, digital sovereignty is a spectrum, not an end state.

I just wrapped up writing a longer-form publication, maybe best described as a collection of short essays: Reflections on Public Interest Technology from someone with a governance / policy / power dynamics perspective.

Germany is debating a social media ban for young people.

Algocreep — a phenomenon of shared use of digital devices and their algorithmic recommendation systems where multiple users’ inputs create undesirable algorithmic results.

Too many of our systems have been optimized for cost efficiency to the point where they’re so brittle, they start failing a lot.