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Let ChatGPT Convert You To Socialism

December 06, 2022

The AI text-generator is both terrifyingly good and comically limited. But one thing it excels at is helping us think more clearly about politics.

by Nathan J. Robinson

What Will Artificial Intelligence Do To Us?

November 03, 2022

Computers are able to do terrifyingly impressive things, with more to come. What does this mean for work? For art? For the future of the species?

by Nathan J. Robinson

What are Our Phones Doing to Us?

August 14, 2022

Are smartphones destroying our focus, our relationships, and even our humanity?

by Thomas Moller-Nielsen

Are Web3 and Crypto Just a “Grift Pouring Lighter Fluid on Our Already-Smoldering Planet”?

July 13, 2022

Molly White of “Web3 is Going Great” on the scams and lies of the crypto economy.

by Current Affairs

Unfortunately We Are Not Living in a “Simulation”

February 02, 2022

A dangerous new religious belief offers grounds for giving up on the physical world and living 100% online.

by Nathan J. Robinson

A World of Pictures

January 12, 2022

Susan Sontag was right: cameras define reality in ways essential to the workings of a capitalist society.

by Arjun S. Byju

Are NFTs The Dumbest Thing To Happen In The History of Humanity?

December 16, 2021

People attach value to all kinds of nonsense. While “NFTs” are not uniquely ridiculous, their rise is an extreme illustration of status anxiety in our grossly unequal economy.

by Nathan J. Robinson

Obamacare Scams and the Need For a Public Search Engine

October 20, 2021

Google’s for-profit search monopoly has turned information access into a corrupt mess. Both healthcare and web searches should be public, not private.

by Nathan J. Robinson