As AI disrupts the balance between effort and reward in writing, shame remains at work, as a hidden mechanism of social control.

AI promises a pornography without limits – and apparently, without imagination. Might the biggest disappointment of AI porn be how boring it is?

Expectations are that AI will automate swathes of the knowledge economy’s workforce. What needs to be true for the AI predictions to unfold?

Culture and intoxication seem to have always mirrored each other. LSD in the 60s. MDMA in the 90s. Is it possible to predict our future high?

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, doing things slowly, inefficiently, and without precision looks existentially preferable.

Mythical stories of future doom have been supplanted by scientifically grounded ones, with the complexity of our world-system pushing us closer towards inescapable global collapse.