While TBPN hosts debate if creepy ads are good business, LG Electronics and Meta are weaponizing the grid to turn your living room into a permanent corporate listening post.
On the a16z podcast, DoxxNet founder Barrett Lyon argues for a parallel mesh network to escape surveillance, but his defense of data center consumption overlooks the public cost of the digital future.
The first thing you learn when you live in a town that still has a hardware store is that nothing comes free. You pay for it, usually with sweat equity or a few bushels of corn.
It seems that every time technology promises to shrink distance—to connect us instantly across continents—it simultaneously threatens to dismantle the sacred boundaries of our own drawing rooms.