SaaS pricing is up 8.7% year over year, features keep bloating, and cancellation is an obstacle course. The subscription model was a genuine innovation. What it became is a mechanism for turning customer dependency into revenue growth.
OpinionAI coding tools have made it trivially easy to build software nobody asked for. The code is insecure, the developers are slower than they think, and the open-source ecosystem is being buried in noise.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionYouTube is not dying. It is optimizing for engagement over quality, and that is working exactly as designed. The AI slop invasion, creator burnout, and content homogenization are features, not bugs.
OpinionThe Matrix trilogy is not a prophecy. It is a diagnosis of how power structures absorb and resell the dissent meant to challenge them.
OpinionEverything we fear about AI, from autonomous killing to mass surveillance to treating humans as expendable inputs, has been in production for centuries. The machines are not the threat. They are the mirror.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyGoogle’s Gemini thinking model hallucinated inside its own chain of thought, layered fiction on fiction, then faked an error when reality caught up.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionCopium arguments transform having no evidence into a winning strategy. From the explain everything gambit to burden of proof reversal, here is how they work.
OpinionIf gender categories keep multiplying until each person has their own, the result is not a taxonomy. It is a list of names.
OpinionNobody agrees on what consciousness is. After 2,500 years of trying, the definition still assumes only humans have it, and the evidence keeps proving that assumption wrong.
Opinion Psychology & BehaviorThree esoteric believers will all say they believe in magic. Separate them and ask for details, and you get three incompatible belief systems held together by undefined terms and the false consensus effect.
OpinionThe conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron is secretly a man is absurd. But it has buried the real question: what do we call it when a 39-year-old teacher begins a relationship with her 15-year-old student?
OpinionYour AI overlord will not seize power. It will be elected by your subscriptions, your API calls, and your enterprise contracts. The question is whether voters are paying attention.
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