A dive into the collective belief that ‘yes, assets CAN be digital, and you CAN own them!’| untangled.substack.com
Listen now (50 min) | An interview w/Brandon Silverman, co-founder and CEO of CrowdTangle| untangled.substack.com
PLUS: Meta's shocking (but not surprising) rulebook & GPT 5's flop| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Why relationships—not rigid targets—are the key to meaningful systems change.| untangled.substack.com
PLUS: Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Trump's AI Action Plan, confident conspiracy theorists, and ChimpGPT.| untangled.substack.com
How ‘tech for good’ launders the expertise, interests, and beliefs of technologists.| untangled.substack.com
📻 PLUS: The audio version of "Beyond minimizing harms," and a question for you.| untangled.substack.com
Come with me on a journey through ordered and unordered systems| untangled.substack.com
TikTok accents, sycophant chatbots, and why you’re less likely to use AI the more you know about it.| Untangled with Charley Johnson
How to reclaim your agency from generative AI| untangled.substack.com
How 'social tokens' turn creators into stocks| untangled.substack.com
It depends on who is asking the question, and their societal position.| untangled.substack.com
For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity| untangled.substack.com
How to reclaim our agency in an age of AI| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Chatbot speak, unreliable tools, and directions not targets.| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Enjoy a tour of my favorites from the Untangled archives| untangled.substack.com
Because technical decentralization does not decentralize power — it only hides it| untangled.substack.com
Disney strikes back, disinformation distorts LA protests, and chatbots pretend to be licensed therapists.| Untangled with Charley Johnson
WaPo partners w/Substack, YouTube changes its policies, and the manosphere wants Trump & Musk to make up.| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Learn how to shift power imbalances holding you and your system back.| Untangled with Charley Johnson
A guide for working with uncertainty.| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Meta says the quiet part out loud, ICE is surveilling your license plate, and Substack isn't cool.| untangled.substack.com
Your complete guide to the question, 'uh, what in the world is going on in crypto?'| untangled.substack.com
Do they work? What are they even for? Should I be afraid of them?| untangled.substack.com
A wonky romp through identity, classification, and power.| untangled.substack.com
A guide for embracing complexity & adaptive strategies| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Microsoft's “Open Agentic Web,” Meta's stolen books, and the problem with Apple Intelligence.| Untangled with Charley Johnson
A guide for identifying clear boundaries, and avoiding 'unintended consequences.'| Untangled with Charley Johnson
PLUS: The Pope & AI, Musk’s X Feed, and OpenAI’s "corporate colonialism."| untangled.substack.com
A newsletter and podcast about our sociotechnical world, and how to change it. Click to read Untangled with Charley Johnson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| untangled.substack.com
PLUS: Get a free copy of my first e-book, AI Untangled| Untangled with Charley Johnson
Let's talk about 'structural couplings!'| untangled.substack.com
Society's entanglement with technology has brought forth unprecedented harms — do we really want to risk augmenting these in a metaverse?| untangled.substack.com
Don’t ‘fully self-drive’ yourself to an early grave…| untangled.substack.com
PLUS: Untangled topped 9K subscribers & I co-authored an essay for Tech Policy Press.| untangled.substack.com
A guide to interrogating the technological systems that shape power| untangled.substack.com
A guide to interrogating rhetorical power in sociotechnical systems| untangled.substack.com
A guide to anticipating the effects of AI and other emerging technologies| untangled.substack.com
A special issue! What actually IS technology? How does it shape social systems?| untangled.substack.com
PLUS: The metaverse is back, baby! Here’s what you need to know.| untangled.substack.com
How the limits of chatbots can point us toward a better search system.| untangled.substack.com
In the limitations of each of these solutions, we can find lessons for a healthier information ecosystem| untangled.substack.com
Why 'hallucination' is a problematic term (hint - it's not just because it anthropomorphizes the technology!) and what to do about it.| untangled.substack.com
Let’s co-create an essay, shall we?| untangled.substack.com
A survey of how individual datapoints become large, training datasets| untangled.substack.com
Read to the end to hear why I think the web as we know it is falling apart.| untangled.substack.com
Apparently AI systems will continue to improve forever — but is that even possible?| untangled.substack.com
PLUS: An update from The Facilitation Leadership Lab| untangled.substack.com
Let's celebrate with the largest discount yet, and opening up the archive!| untangled.substack.com
