A Political Scientist’s View on Site Reliability, talk at SREcon21 by Dr. Michael Krax. A political scientist’s insights into team building and system design and debugging extensively relying on Niklas Luhmann’s work.

Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning. An impressive list of authors including Anderson, Blaze, Callas, Diffie, Landau, Rivest, Schneier. “did not set out to praise Apple’s proposal, but we ended up concluding that it was probably about the best that could be done. … it did not come close to providing a system that a rational person might consider trustworthy”

The Day I *Almost* Rage-Quit Amazon, hmmm. Interesting lessons in more ways than one.

Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago. Ethan Zuckerman details some pertinent issues in the second half of the article. However, the biggest issue is left unexplored - who is building it and how it will be built.