Published First on Linkedin Part of the AI , Cyber Security & Risk Series We are no longer in an information environment. We are inside an allocation infrastructure for human cognition. Happy Friday. Very much distracted by the World Cup, still trying to do work! So, we keep describing the digital world as if it were still an […]
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Published First on Linkedin Part of the ICANN & Governance Series What Every 2026 gTLD Applicant Should Know Before Entering the Game A note to readers: I want to bring ICANN to the public square. It has been an industry widely unknown, operating eccentrically in its own bubble where checks and balances seem to exist only
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Published Exclusively for CircleID. Part of the ICANN & Governance Series Kenya already had a chance at an African domain. It did not end well. The Citizen Kenya recently ran a piece encouraging ICANN’s 2026 gTLD round as an opportunity for Kenya to run custom web domains and strengthen its digital identity. Someone brought it
Kenya Lost .africa. Here Is the Story The Citizen Kenya Left Out Read More »
March 13, 2026: This article is part of the AI, Cybersecurity, and Risk Series → Christopher Yoo’s recent piece in the Business Times—“AI governance: The summit stage is necessary but it isn’t sufficient”—captures a moment that many in the AI policy world are feeling but few have articulated so clearly. The India AI Impact Summit was
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March 13, 2026 This article is part of Ethical Technocrat Series → US company refused to enable mass surveillance. The government destroyed it. Zimbabwe saw the same playbook coming. So did Namibia. This is the pattern. I. The Ultimatum The Pentagon gave Anthropic a choice: remove safeguards against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, or
When Sovereignty Becomes Extortion: The Anthropic Story Every Nation Needs to Read Read More »
March 9, 2026Part of Governance, Democracy & Economic Policy Series → An Iranian warship was torpedoed in international waters. The US left. Sri Lanka came. The Pentagon called it a victory. I am not a war historian. I don’t pretend to know the classified briefings, the naval strategies, or the calculations made in the Pentagon’s war
Victory Used to Mean Winning the Battle. Now It Means Leaving the Drowning Read More »