There was once a time, long ago, when I thought I was going to grow up to be a travel writer. I was raised in a family where everyone both traveled a lot, and read stuff along the lines of Gerald Durrell, Jan Morris, and Patrick Leigh Fermor when they
A nightmarish airborne robot-eye, piloted by unknown and possibly unknowable forces operating from an undisclosed location in a secret command-center, lit only by blinking red LED lights. A far-flying remote controlled warplane designed by hubris-poisoned and dead-eyed engineers, hauling a payload of knife-throwing missiles to rain down on enemies of
what have we learned from this year of watching Elon Musk repeatedly, endlessly fail?
Some initial impressions from watching DJI and other drones in the air above Israel and Gaza
What's the deal with me and drones? How did a journalist get into little flying camera robots? Here's my attempt to explain.
Meta has failed at world domination so far, but Elon Musk has given them a hell of an assist.
How Mark Zuckerberg's "pivot to video" made the world worse.
In Southeast Asia in the early 2010s, I watched as Mark Zuckerberg's creation began to destroy Myanmar. Here's why I'm never using Threads.
My latest for Foreign Policy, disaster feeds on Bluesky, and more.
Drones are helping responders rescue people and assess the scale of the Kherson flooding - but their presence comes with risk.
Elon Musk's depraved, utterly irresponsible failure to moderate Twitter is harming innocent people.
I haven't had this much fun on the Internet in years