A newsletter by historian Lee Vinsel that offers essays and short commentary on how technology is studied and discussed, drawing on history, social science and materialist analysis. It also ties into the Peoples & Things podcast and related book projects.
Website: https://peoples-things.ghost.io/
A critical-AI newsletter offering close readings and essays that challenge anthropomorphic and 'rogue AI' narratives about language models and agents. It combines textual analysis, such as of the Stochastic Parrots paper, with commentary on current AI incidents and policy framing.
Long-form critical essays that use history, philosophy and fiction to examine how technology, AI and institutional systems shape what we can see and understand. Each issue builds a single argument from concrete cases such as the 2018 Uber crash, the origins of the term 'artificial intelligence' and the novel There Is No Antimemetics Division.
Essays by Nicholas Carr on technology, media, perception and culture, mixing close critique of current digital habits with historical and philosophical context. Readers get long-form, original argument rather than news summaries.
A mix of tabletop roleplaying game settings and supplements (for The Black Hack and Mörk Borg) alongside essays that use historical and cultural analogies to discuss technology and AI. Readers get original game-design material and idiosyncratic critical writing.
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