Daniel C Howe

Guess I was wrong that having a corporate central point of failure for vast parts of the internet (Cloudflare) was a bad idea...

The phony comforts of useful idiots On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.

thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...

The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated o...

Interested in your response... www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-c...

"You’re an investor in A.I. You’re deeply invested in Palantir, in military technology, in technologies of surveillance and technologies of warfare and so on. And it just seems to me that when you tell me a story about the Antichrist coming to power and using the fear of technological change to impose order on the world, I feel like that Antichrist would maybe be using the tools that you are building."

I honestly cannot believe what is happening in the US anymore
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Into the disillusioned atmosphere of pale daylight there rings a different chorus; the hoarse croak of the hawks and hyenas of the battlefield" -Rosa Luxemburg

It is almost impossible for me to read [Computer Scientists] who, instead of saying “Petya washed his hands,” write:

If you work with technology, you should read this
(every day)
'Not without us' by Joseph Weizenbaum
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Hong Kong drops to 46th place in global freedom ranking, as think tanks cite China’s ‘increasing interference’

freedom, ah freedom, well that's just some people talkin'