Essays by Nicholas Carr on technology, media, perception and culture, mixing close cultural criticism with historical argument. Readers get long-form, reflective takes on digital media, enchantment, and the history of communication technologies.
Website: https://www.newcartographies.com
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.
A long-running critical newsletter by ed-tech writer Audrey Watters examining Silicon Valley hype, venture capital storytelling, and AI, with a sharp, essayistic voice. It offers readers skeptical commentary on technology narratives and engages with recent books and critiques of the tech industry.
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