Crosscurrent Code

Essays on technology, culture, and change from the Middle East.

Independent writing by Jad Madi on AI, open source, systems, digital sovereignty, and the human consequences of technical change.

Lead Story

Latency Is Political When You Live Far from the Center

Latency is usually described as a performance metric. From the edge of the network, it starts to feel more like a power relationship: a reminder of who gets to live close to the center of digital infrastructure and who has to work around the distance.