We talk to Cris Verinder, founder of internet companies on the Isle of Wight

A Heideggerian account of moral competence as what technofascism seeks to annihilate. Moral competence is therefore a powerful weapon in the fight against technofascism.

Changing our vocabulary can change negative perceptions of technology

Seeing through the shell of "AI" marketing speak

As civilian and military tech converge we can't have it both ways with tech and safety.

Luis Falcon MD talks about GNUHealth and why the world needs software for hospitals and GPs that is not linked to Big TEch

Helen and I had the honour to talk to Dr. Luis Falcon, a Spanish computer scientist, physician (practising MD) and leader of the GNUHealth project. We spoke about health information ecosystems, medical management systems, wearable sensors, free software, privacy, community, and public health research. Dr. Falcon does a huge amount of very valuable and underappreciated work on systems that are extremely important in the world right now. (Music contributions from Cosmic Karine again and thanks to Guy for the Izotope reverb removal.)

"AI" is a now term of propaganda not technology

Can systems security be measured and can custom language models working with constraints solving help automate security assurance? We talk to Dr Basel Katt and Ryan Marugah about how their company SeCore do automated system analysis. Will it make security better or worse?

"AI" is just the most recent step in a fugue from reality