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Issue 03 · September 2026

The month someone else set the clock

A date after which an assistant cannot be switched back. A two-hour daily limit on a teenager's account and a block from midnight to six. A twelve-hour cap on a feed watched without logging in. A fine for letting software end someone's income with no person in the decision. August was full of clocks, and almost none of them were set by the people who now live with them.

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Issue 02 · August 2026

The month convenience met its hidden contract

A map that could invent a city, a lease that looked like a payment plan, a browser that joined a private call, and a health assistant that asked for our most sensitive records. July's useful technology kept asking the same question: what changes when the interface makes a consequential choice feel effortless?

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