Technology

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Aug 3, 2026telehealth / privacy

The Telehealth Intake Has an Ad Pixel

The FTC's Hims lawsuit is not only about one telehealth brand. It is about what happens when sexual health, medication, subscription design, and ad tech share the same intake form.

7 min
Jun 30, 2026privacy / surveillance

Geofence Warrants and the Private Map

The Supreme Court just said your location history is not a free police lookup. That matters most for the parts of life people are trained to hide.

6 min
May 31, 2026apple / google

Apple, Google, and the Private Life You Actually Live

The real privacy fight is not iPhone versus Android. It is whether your daily tools respect the messy, horny, medicated, ambitious person carrying them.

3 min
May 9, 2026tesla / evs

Tesla and the EV Belief Machine

Tesla did not just make electric cars desirable. It turned the car into software, status, infrastructure, and a rolling argument about the future.

3 min
Mar 25, 2026privacy / security

The Private Browser Is Not a Condom

Incognito mode is useful, but it is not a magical latex cloak. Adult privacy needs layers, threat modeling, and less wishful clicking.

2 min
Mar 18, 2026self-hosting / privacy

The Kink of Self-Hosting

Running your own services is not purity. It is a peculiar intimacy with infrastructure, control, maintenance, and consequence.

2 min