Recent articles
April 7, 2026
An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive
The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week.
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April 3, 2026
Is AI Going to Turn Us All Into Middle Managers?
What AI is actually doing to the workforce
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March 27, 2026
What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later?
An early Twitter exec reckons with the monster he helped create.
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March 20, 2026
How AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield
Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the question of AI use in the military
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March 18, 2026
A Disturbing New Low in the Polymarket Era
Maybe turning war into a casino was a bad idea?
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March 14, 2026
Awareing Ourselves to Death
Doomscrolling is over. Now, everyone is “monitoring the situation.”
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March 13, 2026
Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Weather App?
We asked the Dark Sky guy what it takes to get the forecast right.
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March 6, 2026
Did Netflix Ruin Movies?
The art (and anxiety) of the streaming era
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March 5, 2026
The Central Lie of Prediction Markets
Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.
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February 27, 2026
What Do the People Building AI Believe?
Inside San Francisco’s AI subculture
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February 20, 2026
The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now
Are we in another acceleration phase for AI?
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February 14, 2026
The Internet’s Nihilism Crisis
This is what it looks like when nothing matters.
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February 13, 2026
Is AI Ruining Music?
What we can learn from one band’s fight to protect its creative core
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February 6, 2026
The Manosphere Breaks Containment
The internet’s new extremists will do anything for the algorithm.
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January 25, 2026
Believe Your Eyes
People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.
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January 23, 2026
ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content
When officials record themselves, they become content creators, too.
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January 16, 2026
The Problem Is So Much Bigger Than Grok
The internet was built to objectify women.
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January 14, 2026
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
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