the browser is dead. long live the agent.

every time i see a login screen, i feel like absolute shit.

not because i forgot my password, though let’s be real, i probably did but because in 2025, i’m still being asked to prove i exist to a website i’ve visited 94 times. like a dog begging to be let back into its own house.

If the “State is the monopoly on violence,” as Max Weber once defined it, then the surveillance state (or surveillance capital) is the monopoly on identity. In this time of rising surveillance capitalism, entrenched surveillance states and, more recently, the plutocracy of blockchain networks, this monopoly has never been more important to break. D... See more

Identity is contextual and, if we are to live, breathe, and grow, it has to remain contextual. The Internet of the “authentic self” — a loathsome, aberrant idea if there ever was one — is an exercise in slowly getting strangled by your past selves.