Surveillance Wrapped in Sentiment

A Super Bowl commercial framed AI-powered neighborhood surveillance as an act of compassion — helping reunite lost dogs with their families. But beneath the emotional storytelling lies a deeper ethical question: when does feel-good technology become normalized surveillance, and who gets a say in its expansion?

Language, Examined: When Responsibility Disappears

When headlines remove the actor from the sentence, harm begins to look like an accident rather than a choice. This installment of Language, Examined explores how passive phrasing and abstract language quietly erase responsibility—and why that matters.