Did Substack Fix the Internet?
Kyle Chayka on a new book, “How to Save the Media,” by Hamish McKenzie, one of the co-founders of the…
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admin Everyone Can Be Migos Now
The viral “Hotel Lobby” meme, which lets users inhabit the bodies of Quavo and Takeoff using A.I., resembles digital blackface,…
Hollywood’s Tech-Founder Fixation Takes a Dark Turn
Brady Brickner-Wood writes about tech-founder bio-pics and what the genre reveals about our cultural understanding of such figures.
How Lists Became Our Greatest Defense Against Endless Slop
Brady Brickner-Wood writes about online-list culture, as an offshoot of the listicles of the early twenty-tens and an expression of…
Caleb Hammer’s Humiliation Economy
Brady Brickner-Wood on Caleb Hammer, a YouTube influencer and the host of the popular series “Financial Audit,” who claims that…
My Weekend with an A.I. Agent
What agentic A.I. is best at, Brady Brickner-Wood writes, is optimizing processes that were presented as the already maximally optimized…
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…
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…