Reading up on Electronic Frontier Foundation

Noah Smith outlines four eras of San Francisco tech culture from 2001 to present: Rebel, Corporate, Interregnum, and AI Era.

DraftKings employs AI to identify and target losing gamblers with personalized ads, exploiting vulnerability to boost profits, a practice the EFF says should be banned.

The EFF explains how adversarial interoperability—building compatible products without permission—once drove tech innovation but is now curtailed by Big Tech, harming competition.

Software quality relies on engineers' agency; yielding to nihilism ('black pill') undermines technology's potential to serve humanity.

Let's Encrypt, launched in 2015, became the world's largest CA and made free, automated TLS the standard, transforming web encryption.