Why Is Britain Poor?(edwest.co.uk)

3 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 0 comments

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed(friedkielbasa.substack.com)

99 points by fkozlowski 4 months ago | 25 comments

A Language of Beautiful Impurity(edwest.co.uk)

68 points by nafnlj 2 years ago | 22 comments

The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

90 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 61 comments

Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow(doctorow.medium.com)

187 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 125 comments

The Clouds of Hiroshima(doomsdaymachines.net)

38 points by handfuloflight 3 months ago | 24 comments

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)

21 points by joozio 8 days ago | 28 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.