Sublime

These apps and slick sites were not, as Bill Maher put it, gifts from “nerd gods building a better world.” They were, instead, designed to put slot machines in our pockets.

Tristan Harris, a “design ethicist,” was quoted in Irresistible explaining why people have such a hard time resisting certain sites on the internet: “There are a thousand people on the other side of the screen whose job it is to break down the self-regulation you have.”

She also agreed to be barred from being an officer or director in a public company for ten years.

Crypto exchanges and token creators who wanted to sell to Americans insisted that these tokens weren’t securities but more like, say, Starbucks Rewards points. As FTX was incorporated in Antigua, operated in Hong Kong, and in principle did not allow American investors to trade on its crypto exchange, and in principle did not sell its tokens to Amer

The press gave significantly less ink to the latent misogyny bubbling up inside of tech companies, and the libertarian view that enabled tech figureheads to unwittingly enable these same biases.

The first tangible sign of this underground funding stream was a television ad called “Survivor.” It featured a Canadian woman named Shona Holmes who said, “I survived a brain tumor,” but claimed that if she had been forced to wait for treatment from Canada’s government health service, “I’d be dead.” Instead, she said, she had received lifesaving t

The online world was his stage; he just needed to decide who would come out from behind the curtain.

He’s allowing a slur for Muslims that’s the equivalent of the N-word—kalar—and defending its use, even in posts calling for people’s blood. He’s removing more posts by civil society groups and peace activists than government and anti-Muslim accounts. Worried he might be in cahoots with the junta, we raise this with the content team, who tell us the