This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can find more of my writings and also listen to an audio version. Want to receive more stories? Subscribe to my newsletter. HOW PEOPLE SEEM suddenly worried about ‘Artificial Intelligence’! It’s as if massive threats to human flourishing suddenly become acceptable if…

With a few exceptions, socialist movements do not seem to care a damn about the fact that if they gather in stuffy rooms without face masks during a pandemic, they exclude many of their comrades. I’m not going to point fingers, but examples abound. We need to learn. Or can’t…

Enkele uitzonderingen daargelaten, socialistische bewegingen lijken zich tot nog toe geen fluit aan te trekken van het feit dat je kameraden uitsluit als men tijdens een pandemie hutjemutje in een zaaltje gaat zitten zonder mondneusmaskers of welk plan dan ook. …

This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can find more of my writings and also listen to an audio version. Want to receive more stories? Subscribe to my newsletter. Now the emergency is over… On the 5th of May 2023 the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced thatthe enduring COVID-19 pandemic is now merely an…

This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can find more of my writings and also listen to an audio version. Want to receive more stories? Subscribe to my newsletter. The right to encrypt As you may have heard, the government of the United Kingdom is trying to pass an Online Safety Bill. This…

This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can also find more of my writings. Want to receive more stories? Subscribe to my newsletter. Why am I still on Twitter? I sent my first tweet on the 17th of June 2009. It contained a six-word description of that afternoon — I was travelling somewhere. Back then…

This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can also find more of my writings. Want to receive more stories? Subscribe to my newsletter. Somewhere in Plato’s work you’ll find an argument against writing. That’s right; writing, as such. Given how important writing is to me, it always gives me…

This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can also find more of my writings. Want to receive more stories? Subscribe to my newsletter. I’ve been thinking recently about what form of political organisation I should put my time and energy in. How can I best contribute to bringing about…

Microchips are some of the most extraordinary objects humanity has ever made. This writes John Lanchester in the first March issue of the London Review of Books, which I read during breakfast. Computer chips are extraordinary in part because they seem impossible to put together. …