Surveillance State
Mass Observation
The details of our lives are valuable data. Community founders aren't equipped handle them safely.
Meg Conley
Hi, my name is Meg. I create Pocket Observatory, a not-for-profit attention reclamation project.
Authoritarianism
Disrobe the Supreme Court
The word 'robe' is directly related to the word 'rob'
ADHD
I just had one job
And I really forked it up.
Daughters
An Update, of sorts
I'll tell you everything in person next time we run into one another
Daughters
Flying
This is not wise and I will delete it later, when I need it less, probably
Platforms
Are overnight oats ads proof that Instagram is changing reality?
Um. Yes.
Unseen
This isn't a ghost story, probably
Does my dead dad hate who I've become? And other questions for the not-living.
White Supremacy
Free Gaza, Guerilla Liturgy and My Great-Grandmother's Lost Yiddish
Let's talk about vandalism and (pearly) gates
Garden
A Melancholy History of Chives or, Sulfur? I barely know her!
Private equity is eating the world and spreading rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria.
Children's Rights
Observation #1
The average minimum wage is $14.17. The average housing wage for an apartment is $35.84. I have never made that kind of money.
Motherhood
Covid, Capital and A Video?
"Don't look at me," she says while sharing a video of herself.
Reproductive Rights
The Future of Crypto Reproductive Rights is Here
And other concerning innovations from the future
Platforms
The Creator Economy is the Asylum We're Being Raised In
Engaged communities like the Swifties are data-rich ecosystems exploited by surveillance capitalists.
Healthcare
a letter about semaglutide, kinda
I almost titled this letter 'Semaglutidings'
On Being Wrong
A reader asks how I learned to become open to being wrong. I try to give the right answer. (See what I did there!?)
War
The Ladder of Escalation is Defective
So killing thousands of children in Gaza is not an unprecedented escalation, but a drone attack - that was designed to fail - is? Seems broken.
ADHD
Outside of Totality
I keep a pair of eclipse glasses in a drawer next to my passport. To me, this is evidence that I have become an adult, but it might also be proof of something else.
I am a particle, that wishes it were a wave
A free art print
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