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2026 2

  1. Stop using Media Bias/Fact Check in research
  2. A reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1

2025 6

  1. Taking a Break
  2. Dave and the Spectacle of Computation
  3. 50501: Navigating the Decentralized, Digitally-Coordinated Resistance
  4. The Anti-Intellectualism of Social Media Design
  5. A Revolution for the Perplexed: A Review of "Blockchain Radicals"
  6. Tokens, the oft-overlooked appetizer: Large language models, the distributional hypothesis, and meaning

2024 17

  1. Nature's Folly: A Response to "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably"
  2. A Response to Jackson et al's "#HashtagActivism"
  3. Complexity and Accountability: A (Non-Environmental) Case for Rationing Computation
  4. Capture Platforms
  5. Are Tech Stocks Overvalued?
  6. A Response to Futurism's "CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue" and Similar Articles
  7. Why Is There an AI Hype?
  8. A Response to Mark Rober's Apologia for Anduril and the Military-Industrial Complex in "Vortex Cannon vs Drone"
  9. Mass Protests and the Danger of Social Media
  10. The TikTok "Ban" and the Missing Leftist Response
  11. Daylight Savings and the Case for the Pre-Julian Calendar
  12. 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
  13. Need, Want, and Agency: Mapping the Digital User Experience
  14. Nature's Folly: A Response to Nature's "Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses"
  15. [UPDATE] Nature's Folly: A Response to Nature's "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots"
  16. Guest Post: The Playlist(s) Lie, by Carter W
  17. Digital Public Footpaths: A Policy Proposal for an Internet Right of Way

2023 33

  1. The Pornetariat: The Techno-Optimist Underclass
  2. Why Are Cars Getting Bigger?
  3. The Tyranny of Data and Its Digital War on Human Agency
  4. Why Do Teens Use TikTok for Mental Health Diagnoses?
  5. A Statement on Technology in War or: Why No One Should Stop Worrying or Love the Bomb
  6. Guest Post: Emergent Aikido, by Michael Verrenkamp
  7. Are Things Getting Worse? We Made A Website That Lets You Decide
  8. One Year Update: Is This Thing On?
  9. The Fractal Bloat
  10. The Anti-Labor Propaganda Masquerading as Science
  11. An Amendment to the Seven Strategization Initiatives For Success And Profit, by Mark Wittels
  12. Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet
  13. Landlords of Cyberspace: Understanding Tech through Twitter's Rebrand and Worldcoin
  14. Guest Post: Population Emission Unit Reductions: A Totally Serious Opportunity to Expand Carbon Markets, by Fernando R
  15. Barbenheimer and our Malleable Reality
  16. Cucksumerism: A Boyboilian Theory of a Modern Internet Pathology
  17. Smithsonian Magazine Is Wrong About Vertical Farming
  18. The Crucible of Mediocrity: Lessons from the Physical World for the AI-Generated Internet
  19. Flying Sucks and Robots Steal Your Job: On The Joyless Technologies Capitalists Create
  20. A Blind Spot for Large Language Models: Supradiegetic Linguistic Information
  21. The Internet Continues Getting Worse: Reddit's Third-Party Apps and Digital Enclosure
  22. Legalize Ransomware: A Totally Serious Market-Based Solution to the Cybersecurity Crisis
  23. Guest Post: The Snake Eats Itself, by Michael Verrenkamp
  24. Capitalism Uses Computers Backwards: What Amazon Warehouses and Online Dating Have in Common
  25. Technological Antisolutions: The Difference Between Public Transit and Self-Driving Cars
  26. Effective Altruism: Should We Pause AI?
  27. Colonizing Space Is Store Bought Tomatoes but More and for Everything
  28. Guest Post: Rise of the Banal, by Michael Verrenkamp
  29. Guest Post: Money Is The Problem, by Fernando R
  30. The Alienation Machine: How Social Media Creates Private Profit from Public Disunity
  31. Why Do We Blur Our Zoom Backgrounds?
  32. On Section 230 and Third Party Content
  33. Social Media Is Not A Utility

2022 7

  1. Technological Antisolutions: The Difference Between Public Transit and Self-Driving Cars (Original)
  2. The Attention Economy 2: Any App That Could Just Be A Website Only Exists To Track You
  3. The Attention Economy: How Tech Harvests Human Life For Shareholder Value
  4. Elon Musk Is Not The Problem With Twitter
  5. Paul Graham Sucks
  6. The Case Against Substack
  7. The Attention Economy 3: Why?