Trump Crypto and the Office-to-Token Pipeline
Nothing says “public service” like turning the office into a launchpad and the launchpad into a wallet. That’s the Trump crypto trick: sell disruption…
Author: Lee Keybum
Lee Keybum covers the companies that call themselves open while hiding the key under the doormat and billing users for the mat. His work tracks tech platforms, media companies, streaming empires, social networks, search engines, creator economies, and the corporate machinery that decides what people see before they know they are choosing. Keybum is fascinated by the gap between innovation language and extraction behavior. He writes about algorithmic incentives, platform dependence, digital monopolies, ad-tech fog machines, AI hype cycles, corporate media consolidation, and the strange new ways ordinary people become unpaid infrastructure for billion-dollar systems. His voice is skeptical, nimble, and allergic to press-release futurism. The future may be arriving, but Keybum wants to know who owns the tollbooth, who copied the key, and why the lock now requires a monthly subscription. Categories: Tech, Media, Business, Culture, U.S.
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When Your Password Manager Locks You Out
Dashlane’s security incident has the funniest possible side effect: the first person treated like a threat is the customer who paid for protection. Premium digital safety, apparently, comes with a velvet rope and a very nervous bouncer.
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House of Representin’: The Stalling Industrial Complex
The House has perfected a special kind of modern democracy: announce yourself as “the people’s chamber,” then spend the workday acting like legislation is…
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X Discovers Clickbait Has a Payroll
X wants to sound like a serious media ecosystem now, which is adorable for a platform that spent years paying people to act like the loudest tab in the room. The ordinary-user result is predictable: if the payout machine rewards rage bait and aggregation, the feed fills up with it until everybody starts calling the sludge “content.”
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Public Risk, Private Reward
Elon’s favorite origin story is the rugged lone innovator routine: one man, one vision, one heroic grin, and somehow no one else involved except…
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Kushner and the Luxury of Access
Jared Kushner is a great reminder that in America, power does not just open doors — it starts charging rent. The polished patriot talk…
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The Privacy Settings Keep Getting Smarter Than the Users
A tech company has discovered the timeless business model of calling a subscription “personalization” until the bill and the data policy start sounding like the same document. Lee Keybum on the cheerful corporate habit of translating user privacy into a menu you didn’t realize had a lock on it.
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When the Slush Fund Gets a Halo
The slush fund was ugly until somebody in a suit spotted a way to cash in. That is the whole Washington magic trick: the…
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Apple Found The Tollbooth Again
Apple’s App Store safety pitch may be real in places, but the Epic payment-link fight keeps making protection look like a cashier window with a privacy badge.
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Meta Data Labelers Unionize, Then Lose 1,100 Jobs—Was AI or Union Angst to Blame?
Meta’s data-labeling contractors in Nairobi unionized, flagged privacy concerns with Ray-Ban glasses recording private moments, and then found themselves jobless, cut under the guise of ‘automation.’
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