ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media(jacobin.com)

199 points by throwaway81523 1 year ago | 191 comments

Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy(jacobin.com)

124 points by robtherobber 10 months ago | 103 comments

Cory Doctorow's Vision for a Just Tech Revolution(jacobin.com)

34 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 3 comments

Are We Transitioning from Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?(jacobin.com)

19 points by jlpcsl 2 years ago | 2 comments

ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide deportation flights(jacobin.com)

88 points by JKCalhoun 1 year ago | 17 comments

Belgium's Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment(jacobin.com)

26 points by e12e 1 year ago | 3 comments

The revolt of the reader(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

554 points by chmaynard 1 month ago | 269 comments

Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing, as a reader, against people publishing LLM-authored writing under their own names.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse(ryansouthgate.com)

510 points by ry8806 1 year ago | 294 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author removed the Disqus comment system from his blog, citing its injected ads.

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did(davidoks.blog)

502 points by colinprince 7 months ago | 527 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.

Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks(kdpcommunity.com)

586 points by captn3m0 10 months ago | 289 comments

Kindle Direct Publishing community announcement about new eBook download options for readers, including ePub and PDF for DRM-free titles, coming in 2026.