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Carey LeningI 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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One Weird Trick for Opting Out of Pangram on Substack
So, I initially wasn’t going to weigh in on the Pangram announcement posted by Substack’s CEO on Wednesday, because 1) everyone is talking about it, and 2) I didn’t have much to add.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, the Tl;Dr...
How Brussels can avoid becoming a digital vassal to US Big Tech
//Image: Gefühl der Abhängigkeit, by Sascha Schneider, 1894
The most important AI-governance development of 2026 so far wasn’t a model release. It was an export-control order. On June 12, the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and...
Why 'Provable Data Erasure' Is Really Hard
A few days ago, a very nice, earnest developer sent me a message. He was building a tool designed to ensure ‘provable data erasure’, but had the good (or perhaps, bad) enough sense to ask me for a sanity-check first.
It was an interesting...
Is the United States Becoming a Techno Banana Republic?
On Friday, at 5:21 pm Eastern Time, the Trump administration imposed a sweeping export ban on Anthropic’s new Mythos/Fable models. It was hailed as evidence that even Big Tech companies might face consequences. Is this proof that my extensi...
Last Week, Everyone Agreed Something Must Be Done About AI. That's a Tell.
By all appearances, last week was a banner week for AI governance and AI safety proposals. Everyone, collectively seemed to be waking up—The EU announced an ambitious AI/data sovereignty strategy for decoupling itself from US Big Tech, the...
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