My phone is an iPhone, my computer is a Mac, my watch is an Apple Watch and my earphones are AirPods. Somehow, this apparently requires a political theory.
'Almost every Apple device' vulnerable to CocoaPods
Dependency manager used in millions of apps leaves a bitter taste
What the Anthropic fight says about AI regulation
Fables of the deconstruction of American power
Is Apple Security a MYTH?
The Atmospheric Apple of My Eye - Scott's Thoughts
Continuing down the line of a cross-app device level identity... what about Atmosphere accounts on iOS?
Alex Moore on Open Web Advocacy and Why "Innovation Doesn't Come from the Gatekeepers"
Too risky for the road but safe for schools? Rethinking smart glasses in the science classroom
This paper critically examines the governance of smart glasses in K-12 science education, using science classrooms as a case through which policy design challenges become visible. We position these wearable technologies not only as tools of pedagogical innovation but as governance challenges requiring regulatory attention. The vendors of smart glasses claim that their devices enhance real-time visualisation, support hands-free inquiry, and personalise activity. Yet, despite increased consumer availability and promotion by vendors, smart glasses are inconsistently specified in Australian school policy, unlike other high-stakes sectors such as transportation where wearable device categories are explicitly regulated. Drawing on a comparative analysis of policy associated with Australia’s K-12 mobile phones and the 2023 Victorian Road Rule Amendments “New Driver Distraction Road Rules”, this study proposes that science education requires similar anticipatory governance. Whereas the road safety framework classifies wearable technologies as potential sources of cognitive distraction and provides a stratified risk profile, device-specific restrictions, and enforcement mechanisms, we illustrate a stark contrast to the comparable provisions analysed in educational policy. This analysis identifies governance-relevant risk categories for staff, students, and schools that are not consistently addressed in the education policy texts examined, and that are difficult to standardise through discretionary, school-level interpretation alone. As such, this paper contributes to global conversations on educational justice, digital governance, and the ethical integration of emerging technologies in education.
Tech ethics won’t save us
This week, both Apple and Google have come under fire for continuing to allow sales of a Saudi government app which will enable men to…
‘I always hear them before I see them’: Drones strike fear in Colombia
Armed groups have taken the conflict to the skies by making greater use of cheap, widely available drone technology.
Pluralistic: Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis (23 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
As much as I admire the techlash, I have some serious reservations. I worry that there's some pretty useful tech babies that we are at risk of throwing away with the bathwater.
Platform wars: the final score — Benedict Evans
The platform wars and over and Apple and Google both won. So, what's the score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we think about next?
Apple Turnaround
I spend a lot of time thinking about what Apple should be doing differently. I wrote Apple Turnover because so many of my notions kept running into a dead end: I could no longer bring myself to believe Apple would do these things without a change in leadership.
The State Department’s X Directive and the End of Platform Independence
A cable endorsing a social media platform by name as a tool of U.S. diplomacy and military psychological operations would have been unthinkable—until recently.
The Weaponized World Economy
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagined epoch of “liberation” under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration’s dream of managed great-power rivalry. Instead, it was the true opening of the age of weaponized interdependence, in which the United States is discovering what it is like to have others do unto it as it has eagerly done unto others.
