I’m a writer, tech analyst, and media project manager living in New Haven, CT. Arachne is my newsletter focused on how technology interacts with creativity, culture, and citizenship.
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Hello everyone. I know it has been a bit since I have published anything. To be completely transparent, I have found it extremely difficult to write recently. Across tech, media, and democracy - the three primary verticals of this newsletter - the news has been very bad. I want the
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I have to admit something. When I wrote a few weeks ago about deleting my Facebook account, I did not mention that I had also created a completely blank burner account. As a person invested in and often researching communication technology, I feel it's important to keep a
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This past weekend, Ryan Coogler's original Southern horror film Sinners opened to pretty solid reviews, pretty solid audience reactions, and $61.5 million in global box office sales. For Warner Brothers, who has delivered such big budget flops as Furiosa and Joker: Folie à Deux in the past
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In some ways, I feel like I've gotten my attention back. A few months ago, after researching and writing some pieces about Meta, I decided to come off of my Facebook and Instagram accounts permanently. Combined with my abstinence from TikTok, my use of social media has become
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While I don't write about it extremely often, theatre preoccupies my mind. For most of my life, even since I stopped performing, I have been around theatre people, rehearsing, attending shows, and talking in bar booths about it. For a number of reasons, I worry about the future
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At the September 10th presidential debate, when pressed about Project 2025, Trump said the following: I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it — purposefully. This statement aligned with multiple statements he made along the trail, attempting to distance himself from the nearly thousand page document that
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Yesterday, The Atlantic published an article. Whether you want to call the article "explosive," "dumbfounding," or "stunning," it is remarkable in how unlike it is from anything that has, uh, ever happened. The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders
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Recently, news dropped that Apple is delaying the release of its more advanced Siri features. Apple delays upgraded Siri: it’s taking ‘longer than we thought’Expect the improved Siri features to roll out “in the coming year.”The VergeJay Peters After announcing last June that the more robust capabilities
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What happens to old software? Will we remember what it used to be like? In middle school, I sat on the Shared Decision Making Committee, a mostly useless panel of parents, teachers, administrators, and me. As part of being in the group, I got to attend a night of demos
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For a generation or two, the US and China have been in a geopolitical waltz of diplomacy, trade war, and animosity as the two world powers attempt to hold onto and gain new global influence. Ironically, America's unceasing consumerism and profit incentive and China's logistical ability
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For all of my tech curiosity and the DIY spirit I cultivate around my digital life, I have no idea how to code. I have attempted to learn multiple times, from clacking out HTML in high school, to taking online Fundamentals of Javascript courses, to signing up for Harvard'
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I've spent the last few weeks writing almost exclusively about technology, and I think it's time to dip back into media and entertainment (and of course its intersections with technology). In the past, I've written pieces about building an online arts scene, my impressions