Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a…
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admin The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
Brady Brickner-Wood writes about the proliferation of A.I.-generated images of food, and what they reflect about the history of food…
A Sex Tape Won’t Make You Famous Anymore
Brady Brickner-Wood writes about the siblings Julian and Jaden Newman, former basketball prodigies and current influencers, and about Jaden’s recently…
The Mark of the Machine
Brady Brickner-Wood writes that few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic…
Perez Hilton and Our Live-Streaming Nightmare
Brady Brickner-Wood on how the advent of the live stream has allowed ordinary people to become both the celebrity and…
Stella Lefty and the Rise of Nepo-Baby Musicians and “Industry Plants”
Brady Brickner-Wood on Stella Lefty, Gracie Abrams, Clairo, Geese, and other artists with rich parents, a savvy social-media-marketing team, or…
The Department of Labored Content
Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok, but the White House is about to learn that controlling the platform isn’t the same…
Christopher Nolan’s Plot to Change the Way We Watch Movies
Brady Brickner-Wood writes about the signature experience of IMAX theatres, which offer moviegoers an élite viewing experience with a limited…
Graham Platner’s Very Online Undoing
Brady Brickner-Wood on the end of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign after he won Maine’s Democratic primary, and the role that…
The Rise of the “As Seen on TikTok” Sticker
Brady Brickner-Wood writes on TikTok’s book-review videos, known collectively as BookTok, and what it means for literature.