# 2026-04-21

-   [[Bookmarked]]:
    -   [BrowserGate](https://browsergate.eu/)
        -   "[[Microsoft]] is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to [[LinkedIn]]’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm."
        -   Ugo

-   [[Read]]:
    -   [[Barbells]]
        -   I used to really enjoy reading Gordon Brander.  I still do, to be fair.  Very knowledgeable and engaging.
        -   But you could not find a more depressing pivot - the trajectory from building tools for collective knowledge commoning to bunkering down into an awful AI-fuelled individualism is a sad tale of our times, I think.
        -   It's The Road for the LLM era.

-   Thatcherism, 2026: There is no such thing as society.  There are individual men and women, and their families of agents.