The web is too big, or scaling down
I started writing this post in October, when Mozilla announced that it's going to become an adtech company. I got distracted by the professoring business, and didn't finish it until now. It's not quite so salient (and, uh, a lot has happened in the world since October 5). But tech, politics, and political economy aren't remotely separate spheres...
Computing without "AI"
In June, while I was visiting my parents' house on the beach in Massachusetts, Apple announced its Apple Intelligence. For the first time in a long while, I wanted to throw my Apple devices into the see. I had a very vivid picture of yeeting my barely-a-year-old, very-nearly-maxed-out M2 MacBook Pro, like a frisbee, off a cliff and into the...