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The people who never ask for help aren't strong — they're running a decades-old survival program that nobody ever told them they could uninstall.
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Co-Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Justin Brown is a co-founder of Brown Brothers Media, the company that publishes Silicon Canals, and one of its three Co-Publishers. He holds a Master of Science in Global Economic History from the London School of Economics (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Global Studies) and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the Australian National University, where he was awarded the Hedley Bull Scholarship and graduated with First Class Honours.
His writing for Silicon Canals focuses on power structures, institutional incentives, and the gap between corporate narrative and corporate behaviour, applied across regulation, capital flows, surveillance and the politics of innovation. As Co-Publisher he sets editorial direction and standards for the site; the editor named on an article is the person who reviewed it. He is based in Singapore.
The people who never ask for help aren't strong — they're running a decades-old survival program that nobody ever told them they could uninstall.
Apr 6, 2026
In late March 2026, Iran’s military leadership formally declared that AWS, Google, and Microsoft data centers hosting U.S. defense workloads constitute legitimate military targets under international law, and the statement landed with a weight that most people in the cloud industry still haven’t fully absorbed.
Apr 6, 2026
While Western discourse around AI remains fixated on job displacement, Japan is deploying physical AI to solve a fundamentally different problem: there aren't enough workers to displace.
Apr 6, 2026
The Trump administration convened nearly two dozen evangelical leaders for private counsel in the wake of its strikes on Iran, according to an investigation by The Intercept.
Apr 5, 2026
The US economy added jobs last year and inflation fell to 2.4% in January, its lowest figure in months, and the White House declared the inflation crisis over.
Apr 5, 2026
Three years ago, when I moved to Singapore for wealth accumulation and business scaling, I was struck by the sheer physical presence of the data infrastructure around me.
Apr 4, 2026
The cost of building a frontier AI model has crossed significant financial thresholds in training compute alone, and the countries that cannot pay that price are not waiting around for charity.
Apr 2, 2026
A Brussels court has reportedly ordered former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon to stand trial for alleged complicity in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister.
Mar 18, 2026
Africa's creator economy is experiencing significant growth, with Nigeria sitting at the centre of that expansion.
Mar 16, 2026
The DOJ and 40 state attorneys general have opened a landmark antitrust trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster, alleging the company's 86% market share in primary ticketing constitutes an illegal monopoly — while Live Nation argues its actual share is 40% and its business simply brings people joy.
Mar 4, 2026
A sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit called Coruna — likely developed by US government contractors — has proliferated from American intelligence through Russian espionage operations to cybercriminals, infecting an estimated 42,000 devices and exposing the structural contradictions of government-funded offensive cyber capabilities.
Mar 4, 2026
Silicon Valley perfected the aesthetics of revolution while systematically preventing anything revolutionary from taking root. The disruption flows downward; the consolidation flows upward.
Feb 28, 2026