Privacat Insights

How Big Tech Becomes Ungovernable

Big Tech companies like Google, SpaceX, and Meta aren't just monopolies—they're becoming ungovernable through tech extensivity. Why €4B in fines went…

14 hrs ago • Privacat

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January 2026

The Ladder to Nowhere, Part 2: OpenAI's Complete Picture of You

OpenAI is building a ladder to comprehensive surveillance. Each rung delivers value—ChatGPT, health tools, wearables, BCIs—while collecting everything…

Jan 27 • Privacat

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The Ladder to Nowhere: How OpenAI Plans to Learn Everything About You

ChatGPT Health is a small part of a much larger plan to learn everything about you. In this post, I talk about what's driving them and how they might…

Jan 25 • Privacat

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On Silverback Gorillas, Men & Dating

Sometimes I wish Substack existed when I was in my 20s.

Jan 12 • Privacat

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Restarting Paid Subscriptions

Fair warning, in case you want to re-evaluate your life choices.

Jan 12 • Privacat

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Political Grok-Pocrisy

Grok is spewing out CSAM on X, and yet politicians are happily still using the platform anyway. The problem is, they're also passing draconian laws.

Jan 7 • Privacat

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I Built an AI-Powered Futures Forecasting Pipeline With Claude Code

Here's how I did it and what I learned. Plus, humor, cats, and link to the source code.

Jan 2 • Privacat

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December 2025

On Numbing Out

A stream-of-consciousness mental reflection on a great piece of writing.

Dec 27, 2025 • Privacat

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Remembering Joi (July 2020 - December 2025)

Remembering our most chill fur baby, who died very suddenly.

Dec 19, 2025 • Privacat

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48 Laws, 25 Years Later: Law 27 -- Tech Hype Cycles are Actually Cults in Disguise

Or how Silicon Valley builds cultlike followings and why they work.

Dec 18, 2025 • Privacat

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Robert Greene's 48 Laws, 25 Years Later

A review of some of Robert Greene's 48 laws, and whether they still have relevance today.

Dec 8, 2025 • Privacat

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November 2025

Agentic AI Browsers are Privacy Disasters

Researchers expose the privacy disaster that is Agentic AI Browsers. I break it all down.

Nov 4, 2025 • Privacat

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