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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A Monday edition of Arachne cause there's some news to chit chat about! So you may have heard news today about a big scary drop in the tech sector of the stock market. You may have seen headlines with a company called DeepSeek and a company called Nvidia.
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I really do not love Arachne being a place where I dreamscape the world we will inherit. I think that there are a number of flaws around the process of prediction in general, and there is no reason to believe that we can project out, say, ten years with any
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It's a new week. We have a new president. The vibes are not great. About a million and one things happened with TikTok over the weekend, so let's talk about them. Here's what happened, somewhat chronologically * In his final hours as president, Joe Biden
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Look, you can do whatever you want. Sincerely. I cannot and will not sit here and judge how anyone else chooses to use their devices or their internet. But, for me? It was time to go. We are experiencing "a moment" This upcoming week has profound implications for
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Hello again everyone. It's a bright new week, which means it's time for some more Arachne. This week, I want to provide some context and some working definitions around artificial general intelligence, or "AGI." What it is, what it isn't, and why
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Since I wrote Tuesday's newsletter, more and more disappointing news has oozed out of Meta. Here are some details being reported about changes to their moderation strategy, their corporate structure, and internal affairs: * Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people Casey Newton, Platformer: "'
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Warning: This post makes brief reference to a physical altercation between a married couple. Time to ramp back up to my typical newsletter cadence. Today's certainly won't be too long, but I still hope to make it worth your while. Let's talk about Meta
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As Charlie XCX told us during the Brat Summer of our lord, everything is romantic. As I am telling you now, everything is tech. Stories that don't appear on the surface to be technology stories always have some small line out to the many ways technology disrupts and
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For me and many of my friends, 2024 has been an absolute doozy. Just an absolute disaster of a year. Without belaboring it, I'll just say that 2025 cannot come fast enough. As the clock ticks down on this mudpit of a year, let's take an
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Following the surprise shooting of a healthcare CEO in Manhattan last week, one of the questions I kept asking myself revolved around technology. How could a person shoot someone in midtown Manhattan and evade both identification and apprehension? For days, a few details were reported that only further made this
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Hi there everyone. For a special Giving Tuesday edition of Arachne, I wanted to point you in the direction of some organizations in the tech and democracy space for you to consider donating. If you're not ready to make a donation today, all of these organizations have excellent
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Over the past week, millions of new users, including some of Twitter's most prolific producers, have moved operations to Bluesky. If you've heard about Bluesky, if you haven't heard about Bluesky, if you are someone who was the 72,868th user on Bluesky (me)