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6G: Because freedom in the mind requires more bandwidth

It was only a matter of time. While humanity is still debating whether 5G kills birds or just minds, Trump has already signed off on the next stage of its evolutionary penetration: 6G. Not for faster Netflix, not for better video calls—but, and please read this twice, for "implantable technologies." Black and white, official, presidential.

The EU age verification app: A Trojan horse with a privacy ribbon

It was a great day for the EUdSSR. Ursula von der Leyen, Europe's self-proclaimed digital empress, ceremoniously stepped up to the microphone and presented the latest masterpiece of Brussels engineering to the astonished public: an age verification app. To protect children, of course. Always to protect children. And naturally, "data protection compliant"—that magic word that serves the same purpose in Brussels.

Civil disobedience: Ageless Linux against the digital surveillance state

In California, there is a law. Of course, California has laws. California has always had rules. This particular instance represents a truly magnificent manifestation of that kind of state overreach, indeed, bureaucratic paternalism, which likes to portray itself as benefactor, considers itself caring, and wears the face of someone who has just announced that he

The Gestapo was yesterday. Today you can be monitored via smartphone.

Welcome to 2025, where the most advanced surveillance apparatus in human history is voluntarily, enthusiastically, and on an installment plan, carried in every pocket. The Gestapo and Stasi took decades to spy on millions of people—and failed because there simply weren't enough informers. That's all over now. The problem has vanished into thin air because we...

Real Life Minority Report: Palantir knows what you're going to do. Before you know it.

In 2002, Steven Spielberg depicted a world where people are arrested before they can commit a crime. Audiences left the cinema both disturbed and reassured: "That's just science fiction. A dystopia. It won't come to that." Twenty years later, Palantir Technologies is sitting in the server rooms of the FBI, the NSA, the British Department of Health, and the Israeli Ministry of Health.

Seniors: Those who don't have a smartphone also lose their rights.

At some point, someone in some ministry decided that the future is digital. Completely, uncompromisingly, without exception. Apps, portals, QR codes, online forms, digital signatures, two-factor authentication – and anyone who can't cope with it simply has no place in this shiny, optimized, user-friendly future. That's called innovation. That's called progress. That's called, in the jargon of bureaucracy,

Big Tech has destroyed more souls than any drug in history.

Somewhere deep in Menlo Park sits a product manager who once said in a meeting, "We need to maximize dwell time." He probably wasn't thinking about the sleepless seventeen-year-old comparing her body to influencer bodies at three in the morning. He was thinking about the next quarterly presentation. That's not a criticism. That's business model.

Not available – two words with which democracies die.

It takes a second. A click. An error message. This channel cannot be displayed because it violates local laws in XYZ. No trial. No hearing. No right to respond. No indication of what exactly constitutes the violation. Just the polite, final notification that someone—somewhere, sometime, without asking you—has decided what you can watch today.

Convenience is the enemy of thought.

Our brain is like a muscle: if it's not challenged, its strength diminishes. Yet this is happening more and more often in everyday life. Instead of racking our brains, we blindly rely on navigation devices, apps, or search engines – and hardly notice how our memory, sense of direction, and creativity are slowly declining. Therefore: challenge your brain. Orient yourself

Hunger by Design: Artificial food scarcity as a government program

Or how to simultaneously disarm, deindustrialize, and empty a world—and still receive applause. It's a remarkable feat that the political class is performing these days. While millions of people pay more every day for basic foodstuffs, while farmers on several continents are leaving their fields fallow because production is simply no longer profitable, while Pakistan is almost

Brussels' long war against freedom of expression

There's a document you should read. It's 160 pages long, written by the staff of the US House Judiciary Committee, and it contains something remarkable: evidence. Thousands and thousands of pages of internal corporate communications, produced under parliamentary subpoena by ten of the world's largest technology companies—Meta, Google, TikTok, X, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and others—which were in

She left without justice – because self-proclaimed justice was being demonstrated elsewhere.

There are sentences that self-destruct. You don't need to add anything. You just need to consider what's happening simultaneously. "Men are lucky we don't want revenge." Luisa Neubauer, climate activist, seasoned protester, and now also a leading figure in politicized digital feminism, uttered this sentence on March 23, 2026, in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Between 6700 and 13,000 people, depending on the time of day, spoke to her.

The Holy Trinity of Control: God, Data & Peter Thiel

How Christian Zionists, Silicon Valley billionaires, and surveillance technology are jointly building the perfect system—and why your smartphone is praying in the process. Let's imagine for a moment that someone had predicted twenty years ago that a Silicon Valley billionaire would be holding secret lecture series about the Antichrist in Rome, that his company would be operating the entire digital surveillance infrastructure of Western democracies, and that his

The useful scandal: How a celebrity divorce paves the way for total surveillance

How a celebrity divorce battle becomes a pretext for dismantling the last vestige of anonymity in democracy. One has to give the architects of the surveillance state credit: they have a knack for timing. Not for justice, not for proportionality – but for the moment when the public is emotionally agitated enough to stop asking what's really going on.

Your voice no longer belongs to you – unless you steal it back.

For a long time, your voice was something deeply personal. It was the last proof that you existed. Your acoustic fingerprint. Your unique signal in the noise of the world. Then ElevenLabs came along and transformed this intimate uniqueness into a monthly subscription business model. Progress, they call it. You give them your voice, and in return, they give you...

6G: Because freedom in the mind requires more bandwidth

It was only a matter of time. While humanity is still debating whether 5G kills birds or just...

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