tech

Anything from stone tools to microchips seams to have to be covered by a definition of technology, and there are weird edge cases. Gene editing might have too much to do with biology and nature. Money seams to have too much to do with law and administration. Yet both gene editing and money seem rather technological. Engineering processes are clearly related to technology but they’re a lot more like rituals in that they have so much to do with defining roles and interfaces between people....

Digital technology threatens important values and concepts like free will, bodily autonomy, private property, identity, and rule of law. Digital personhood is the necessary response. It is simultaneously a philosophy of what a person is, a politics of data, and a technology stack for networked personal computing devices. This is my formulation of — and elaboration on the cypherpunk vision. Cypherpunk: (Not cyBerpunk) CyPHerpunk is a movement that started in the 80s which purports that encryption is needed by everyday people to preserve their privacy....

The fight for freedom today is about access control and personal data. Encrypted messaging is a simple improvement anyone can make. Here are my top choices for private messaging. I’ll go into why I chose these particular apps and protocols a little further down. Signal Signal was chosen as the best overall practical option. This is a great option for talking to friends and family, people who would already have your phone number....