Recent articles
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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January 9, 2026
Can We Save the Internet?
Grok’s “digital undressing” crisis and a manifesto to build a better internet
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January 6, 2026
The Memes Are the Point
Why the Trump administration is posting messages like “THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE” after the attack on Venezuela
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December 26, 2025
How About a Little Less Screen Time for the Grown-Ups
It’s not just kids who can’t stop scrolling.
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December 23, 2025
America's Holiday in Epstein Purgatory
It’s beginning to look a lot like ... extremely disturbing PDFs.
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December 23, 2025
Do Your Parents Have a Screen-Time Problem?
The phone-based retirement is here.
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December 20, 2025
What Is Actually in the Epstein Files?
The heavily redacted trove of documents is shocking, disorienting, and—most important—incomplete.
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December 20, 2025
The Most ████ Administration Ever
The Epstein files are here, and they are too redacted to satisfy anyone.
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December 19, 2025
Prediction Markets and the ‘Suckerifcation’ Crisis, With Max Read
Everyone’s betting; nobody’s winning.
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December 12, 2025
How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV
Short-form video is taking over everything (including reading).
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December 11, 2025
I Am <em>Time</em> Magazine’s Person of the Year
So are you. Congrats!
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December 5, 2025
When Chatbots Break Our Minds
How big a problem is “AI psychosis”?
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November 30, 2025
The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.
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November 28, 2025
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy
How our public sphere has drifted from reality to a “simulated” democracy—and what it might take to pull it back
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