Ian Betteridge

In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke,...

Good evening chums and pals! This has taken me a little while longer to put together, basically because I came...

Ben Thompson, Another Viral AI Doomer Article, The Fundamental Error, DoorDash’s AI Advantages: What is notable about this assertion...

Hi all. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? It has been a week dominated by AI. Which is...

1. Airstrip 404 is here Paris Marx explores the unsettling reality of digital sovereignty in this article, arguing that the...

1. What goes around comes around Back in the day, everyone hated Quark. And I mean everyone, at least unless...

When Saul Bass released Phase IV in 1974, audiences expected a standard ecological horror film about mutant ants overrunning humanity....

Hello! And welcome back. I have had an extended break over Christmas and the New Year. The one benefit of...

1. Lawyers, assemble! Authors v OpenAI part 273. A judge has ordered disclosure of internal communications about dataset deletions. This...

1. Being a Luddite is cool, actually For years, calling someone a “Luddite” was the ultimate insult in Silicon Valley—...

1. This is fine dot gif of the week, part the first Cookie banners are theatre. Consent is supposed to...

This week’s topic is AI. In some ways at the moment, every week's topic is AI, but...

1. Your job is making you anxious. ChatGPT isn't helping If 21st-century capitalism has one central tenet, it&...

Hey, I actually wrote some things this week! The first was about politics, riffing off Amazon's plan to...

We like to imagine that there’s a clean border between technology and nature. Out there are trees, rivers, fungi,...