Welcome to Tekno-Politika
Picture the scene,
It’s 64 AD, and Emperor Nero is supposedly fiddling while Rome burns around him. Historians still argue whether he actually played anything at all (the violin hadn’t even been invented yet), but the image sticks, power, spectacle, technology (those aqueducts and roads didn’t build themselves), and a healthy dose of chaos, all colliding in one spectacular blaze.
Fast-forward two millennia, and here we are.
The modern empire is digital, the fires are metaphorical (mostly), and the fiddling is done by algorithms, platforms, and the occasional billionaire with a rocket fetish. Same ingredients, new recipe.
If you’ve landed here, you’ve probably caught us somewhere, on X, in a podcast, or via a stray link, rambling about how technology and politics are now inseparable, how power flows through code as much as through parliaments, and why the future of democracy might hinge on who controls the moderation button. You could have scrolled past in silence. Instead, you subscribed. Thank you. We promise not to bore you with endless lectures on gadroon borders or foliation, unless we’re talking about blockchain ornamentation, in which case all bets are off.
Tekno-Politika is where we try to make sense of this strange new world, without the moral panic, without the blind cheerleading, and with as much clarity and dark humor as we can muster. Expect sharp takes on AI governance, platform power, digital sovereignty, surveillance capitalism, meme warfare, and whatever fresh absurdity the techno-political gods serve up next.
To get you started, here are a few reader favorites:
If you’re here for the big-picture collisions of tech and power.
The Real Internet Reformation: How platforms became the new churches
Why deleting your account changes nothing, and what actually might
Sovereign clouds and digital Balkanization: The new Cold War nobody asked for
If you want practical takes on navigating the mess:
How to think like a techno-realist in an age of hype
The politics of your pocket supercomputer
When regulation works, and when it’s just theater
If you enjoy the spicier stuff:
Elon, Sam, and the return of the techno-princes
The EU vs. Big Tech: David, Goliath, or just two Goliaths in a cage match?
Why “move fast and break things” aged like milk
You can browse the full archive here, and feel free to dive into the comments, some of the best discussions happen there.
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Hit reply and just say “hi” or “yes.” It helps convince the email gods that you actually want to hear from us and keeps us out of the spam folder.
Thanks again for joining the fray. The idiotic apocalypse is still raging, but at least we’ll have good company while watching it burn, and maybe, just maybe, figuring out how to redirect the flames.
Cheers,
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