Bell Telephone Magazine Spring 1966
I've become a little obsessed with this Bell Telephone Magazine from the spring of 1966 that I accidentally stumbled upon when I was looking for pictures of telephone lines on…
a video about the destructive construction of a Meta data center in Georgia
Meta visited Beverly, the woman we featured whose water pipes have been corroded.
The positive results that get published tend to be overly optimistic about AI’s potential
To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent,…
SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music
Artists are furious at the platform's sneaky tactics.
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By Cory Doctorow
Why new tech only feels good for a short time
The Hedonic Treadmill The psychological phenomenon known as the hedonic treadmill has been well documented since at least the 1970s. The concept refers to how humans tend to revert to…
Plex ups its price for first time in a decade, changes remote-streaming access
Plex is a bit hard to explain these days. Even if you don't know its roots as an outgrowth of a Mac port of the Xbox Media Center project, Plex…
Robot history: everything you wanted to know
When did automatons first emerge? Which science-fiction depiction of robots is the most accurate? And why did so many people fall for a hoax machine called the "Mechanical Turk"? In…
AI Threatens Literary Translation
The etymology of the word translation—“to carry across”—conjures an image of physical labor. It is deeply relational, requiring at least two bodies, those of an author and of the person…