Jan 15, 2026 Bandcamp Bans AI-Generated Music Their new policy is encouraging, but will Bandcamp be able to implement and enforce it effectively?
Jan 2, 2026 Companies Like Palantir and Sauron Co-Opt Tolkien’s Writings for Their Misguided Branding Tech companies want to harness the mythic-ness of Tolkien’s legendarium while giving nary a thought to its values and meaning.
Dec 17, 2025 Meta Might Start Charging Businesses to Post Links on Facebook Stop trusting social media platforms to do right by your website’s content.
Oct 31, 2025 How to Stop LinkedIn From Using Your Data to Train AI You might hardly use LinkedIn, if ever. Regardless, LinkedIn wants to use you.
Oct 23, 2025 Why Is Pitchfork Adding Comments to Their Reviews? Does anyone really think this is a good idea?
Oct 22, 2025 Playing Boards of Canada on a Vintage Computer In this day and age of streaming and smartphones, this looks like some wonderfully arcane ritual.
Oct 10, 2025 How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
Sep 11, 2025 Well Vimeo, It Was Nice Knowing You There are always risks with relying on platforms that can be acquired and disrupted.
Aug 27, 2025 Typepad Is Shutting Down on September 30 The blogging platform was originally launched in 2003 as an easy-to-use option for non-technical folks.
Aug 24, 2025 Defending Reality From AI Our goal should be interacting directly with real human ideas put forth by real human beings in real human contexts.
Aug 11, 2025 Dear Bluesky: Please Add the Ability to Schedule Posts Although Bluesky is far more useful than Threads and X, it’s still missing one important feature.
Jul 14, 2025 Twitter Is Dead. Elon Musk’s X Is All That Remains. Forget about free speech and free thought. Elon Musk is building his own private propaganda platform.
Jun 27, 2025 Facebook’s Enshittification Continues Apace by Penalizing Link Posts This requirement benefits Facebook’s advertisers and shareholders more so than normal users like you and me.
Jun 22, 2025 Tired of seeing paywalls? Blame AI. An arrangement once existed between search engines and websites. That’s no longer the case.
Mar 15, 2025 How to Add Multi-Line Quotes in Gmail A simple workaround for a trivial, yet annoying shortcoming in the popular webmail service.
Feb 25, 2025 Just When You Thought Facebook Couldn’t Get Any Worse… The social media giant stands poised to reward the very same type of sensational and misleading content that it once condemned.
Feb 21, 2025 Meta’s Removal of My Trump Post Might Not Be Censorship, but It Is Evidence of Something Else The inconsistent application of community standards is a frustrating experience for online publishers.
Dec 31, 2024 The Heist Is Proof That AI Filmmaking Is Not the “Death of Hollywood” Maybe 2025 will see the death of AI filmmaking…
Dec 28, 2024 Living for Truth in the Age of AI AI’s ultimate legacy may end up being the damage that it does to our ability to understand, determine, and agree upon what is real.