HeyJaredJohn Kendall Hawkins
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Jul 16, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for CounterPunch
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 9, 2026
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The God in the Machine Comes With an Owner (opens the original)
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Science fiction gets graded on its predictions, which is a mistake. We ask whether the flying cars showed up, whether the robots took over, whether anyone colonized Mars, and when the answer is no we file the genre under entertainment and move on. But prediction was never the point. The good stuff asks the questions a culture cannot yet ask in plain speech, and it asks them years before the boardrooms and the legislatures catch up. Three films from the last few decades did exactly that with arti
The New Conquistadors: Surveillance Capitalism and the Digital Frontier Between Your Ears (opens the original)
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There is a chapter in Edward Snowden’s memoir Permanent Record that receives less attention than it deserves—not the chapter about PRISM or XKeyscore or the Hong Kong hotel room, but the chapter describing what his colleagues actually did with all that power when nobody was watching, which, in a surveillance state, nobody ever is. The program called XKeyscore is best understood as a search engine for the entirety of a person’s digital life. Type in a phone number, an email address, or an IP addr
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