Essays by a critical technologist that read digital culture, taste and attention through Black Studies and conceptual art, alongside fiction criticism and interview episodes. Readers get dense, theory-informed commentary on smartphones, gentrification-style urban sameness and literary critique.
Website: https://www.first-and-fifteenth.co/
The Grey Ledger Society publishes tabletop roleplaying game material, including a setting for The Black Hack about independent cargo crews and a Mörk Borg supplement about the dead and the membrane between worlds. It also runs essays on technology and history, such as a critique of Sherry Turkle's book about talking to machines.
A software engineer's blog covering hands-on lessons from building observability pipelines on ClickHouse, including the silent failure modes he encountered. It also offers personal essays and speculative writing on desktop UI design and the burden of constant smartphone connectivity.
A critical-AI newsletter that closely reads texts and current events to challenge anthropomorphic and 'rogue AI' narratives about language models and agents. It offers humanities-informed analysis of AI discourse, including close readings of the Stochastic Parrots paper and a breakdown of the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack reports.
A newsletter of essays on technology, culture, and the moral life, drawing on literature, philosophy, and history. Readers get reflective critiques of AI discourse and modern technology, plus occasional archive reposts and a commonplace book of curated links and quotations.
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