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