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Carey Lening

I explore what happens when big tech companies, billionaires, and the systems they create become too entangled to regulate or unwind. This is a blog about tech extensity, surveillance, power, and policy.

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Walking the Walk, Part 1: The Start of my Big T(exit)

Walking the Walk, Part 1: The Start of my Big T(exit)

There's this self-help book which came out in July, and I can't stop thinking about the title. I haven't bought the book, and know almost nothing about it, beyond the fact that

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My Brain Refuses to Let Me Learn Like a Normal Person

// FWIW, this post will be interesting to like 4 people. Unless you enjoy Carey snark about poor website design and GDPR failures, you probably won’t find this post very interesting. I’m mostly putting it here so that when I complain to the...

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48 Laws, 25 Years Later: Law 27 — Tech Hype Cycles are Actually Cults in Disguise

I’m resharing this post that I made in December in light of the recent push by Anthropic’s Dario Amodei for “AI pacing” relaxed antitrust rules, and the doomer/millenarian vibes I’m seeing from the tech-cults.

I wrote about the prop...

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The AI Fears are Real, But We Shouldn’t Let the Fearmongers Define the Response

A few days ago, my mom called me. After we’d exhausted our usual conversational topics—my brother’s kids, the latest political crisis, and my recent conference adventures, and the cats—she asked me:

“Are you worried about all this AI stu...

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The Meta Settlement is Kayfabe

Last week, everyone in governance/safety/privacy was all abuzz with the news that Meta had agreed to settle with 47 states, 3 territories, and the District of Columbia over child safety harms and various lawsuits related to the Cambridge An...

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