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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?