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Past issues
- Loops all the way down
An autonomous AI agent is just a chatbot with a crowbar.
- Token by token
A very impressive and expensive word-guessing process.
- Sovereignty: sold separately
Big tech owns 70% of Europe's cloud; the other 30% are probably being leased back to them.
- Friday links for September 4th 2026
Cancer capital, office AI hate, subprime AI crisis, data harvesting for all, and watching railways.
- Carbon dating your user data
Necessary doesn’t mean forever.
- Sandwich sanctions
How a Belfast café became collateral damage in America's Cuba obsession.
- Lake Sovereignty
Sovereign until Google says otherwise.
- The goalposts moved, yet again
An Italian collective didn't break any law. Their domain got disappeared nonetheless.
- Friday links for August 28th 2026
LLM foreign interference, Bill Gates said something, datacentre lies, Hetzner tour, and dumb AI videos.
- Spam, hackers, and other bedtime stories
Four email questions, answered without the panic.
- Relay, don’t surrender
Inbound is easy. Outbound just needs a good reputation – borrowed.
- Privacy theatre, Apple edition
ChatGPT is now in the group chat, whether invited or not.
- The bubble pops, Clippy sends the bill
The real risk to your organisation doesn't run on GPUs.
- Friday links for August 21st 2026
Melting brains, no tech for SV kids, AI superstition, Darth Vader loves Flock, and railway scanning.
- Auditing Europe
A digital sovereignty scan of every national government website.