The Luddite
Dave and the Spectacle of Computation
50501: Navigating the Decentralized, Digitally-Coordinated Resistance
The Anti-Intellectualism of Social Media Design
A Revolution for the Perplexed: A Review of "Blockchain Radicals"
Tokens, the oft-overlooked appetizer: Large language models, the distributional hypothesis, and meaning
Nature's Folly: A Response to "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably"
A Response to Jackson et al's "#HashtagActivism"
Complexity and Accountability: A (Non-Environmental) Case for Rationing Computation
Capture Platforms
Are Tech Stocks Overvalued?
A Response to Futurism's "CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue" and Similar Articles
Why Is There an AI Hype?
A Response to Mark Rober's Apologia for Anduril and the Military-Industrial Complex in "Vortex Cannon vs Drone"
Mass Protests and the Danger of Social Media
The TikTok "Ban" and the Missing Leftist Response
Daylight Savings and the Case for the Pre-Julian Calendar
Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text
Need, Want, and Agency: Mapping the Digital User Experience
Nature's Folly: A Response to Nature's "Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses"
[UPDATE] Nature's Folly: A Response to Nature's "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots"
Guest Post: The Playlist(s) Lie, by Carter W
Digital Public Footpaths: A Policy Proposal for an Internet Right of Way
The Pornetariat: The Techno-Optimist Underclass
Why Are Cars Getting Bigger?
The Tyranny of Data and Its Digital War on Human Agency
Why Do Teens Use TikTok for Mental Health Diagnoses?
A Statement on Technology in War or: Why No One Should Stop Worrying or Love the Bomb
Guest Post: Emergent Aikido, by Michael Verrenkamp
Are Things Getting Worse? We Made A Website That Lets You Decide
One Year Update: Is This Thing On?
The Fractal Bloat
The Anti-Labor Propaganda Masquerading as Science
An Amendment to the Seven Strategization Initiatives For Success And Profit, by Mark Wittels
Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet
Landlords of Cyberspace: Understanding Tech through Twitter's Rebrand and Worldcoin
Guest Post: Population Emission Unit Reductions: A Totally Serious Opportunity to Expand Carbon Markets, by Fernando R
Barbenheimer and our Malleable Reality
Cucksumerism: A Boyboilian Theory of a Modern Internet Pathology
Smithsonian Magazine Is Wrong About Vertical Farming
The Crucible of Mediocrity: Lessons from the Physical World for the AI-Generated Internet
Flying Sucks and Robots Steal Your Job: On The Joyless Technologies Capitalists Create
A Blind Spot for Large Language Models: Supradiegetic Linguistic Information
The Internet Continues Getting Worse: Reddit's Third-Party Apps and Digital Enclosure
Legalize Ransomware: A Totally Serious Market-Based Solution to the Cybersecurity Crisis
Guest Post: The Snake Eats Itself, by Michael Verrenkamp
Capitalism Uses Computers Backwards: What Amazon Warehouses and Online Dating Have in Common
Technological Antisolutions: The Difference Between Public Transit and Self-Driving Cars
Effective Altruism: Should We Pause AI?
Colonizing Space Is Store Bought Tomatoes but More and for Everything
Guest Post: Rise of the Banal, by Michael Verrenkamp
Guest Post: Money Is The Problem, by Fernando R
The Alienation Machine: How Social Media Creates Private Profit from Public Disunity
Why Do We Blur Our Zoom Backgrounds?
On Section 230 and Third Party Content
Social Media Is Not A Utility
Technological Antisolutions: The Difference Between Public Transit and Self-Driving Cars (Original)
The Attention Economy 2: Any App That Could Just Be A Website Only Exists To Track You
The Attention Economy: How Tech Harvests Human Life For Shareholder Value
Elon Musk Is Not The Problem With Twitter
Paul Graham Sucks
The Case Against Substack
The Attention Economy 3: Why?