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Technology

Technology articles offer in-depth analysis and opinion on digital systems, AI, biotechnology, surveillance, automation, and the philosophy of technology — exploring their impacts on individual liberty, privacy, human dignity, free speech, and everyday human experience.

We critically examine pressing issues like digital identity and programmable currency as tools of control, criminalization of online speech, automation’s erosion of human connection, AI systems that displace responsibility, public-health pretexts for restricting digital rights, biotech overreach, the loss of the human element in medicine, and technocratic architectures of control. We also explore pathways to reclaim human agency through resistance to surveillance, defense of open dialogue, and prioritization of presence and responsibility over algorithmic efficiency.

Your Privacy and Brownstone’s Digital Strategy 

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These are enormously stressful times for all. They require everyone to reassess and rethink our relationship to technology for reasons of preserving freedom, privacy, and independence. We need to do our best to avoid becoming part of the privatization of the state. We have taken an important step in that direction. 

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Canada’s Accidental Biosecurity State

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The Covid policies we see today in Canada are the product of pretending for two years that Covid can be stopped, that no trade-offs exist when it comes to Covid, and shunning debate on even the most obvious trade-offs and alternative Covid policies. The lack of attention to the human and economic costs of Canada’s Covid response has been appalling. 

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Bill Gates

Why Bill Gates Is Pivoting on Existing Covid Vaccines

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Once you understand the simplicity of his core confusions, everything else he says makes sense from his point of view. He seems forever stuck in the fallacy that the human being is a cog in a massive machine called society that cries out for his managerial and technological leadership to improve to the point of operational perfection.

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Your Booster Life: How Big Pharma Adopted the Subscription Model of Profitability

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What if, by depriving us of normal life, those who stand to gain from vaccines can forever cement themselves at the center of society by providing an artificial replacement for what our immune systems used to do to protect us against common respiratory viruses back when we were still allowed to live normal lives? 

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