AI slop and enshittification are making the public social commons unbearable. The alternative pathways are more accessible than you think.

Researchers develop a lightweight algorithm designed to reorganise network connections to enable secure, low-latency data ...

Young people are taking to social media and other platforms to carve out algorithmic spaces for French speakers ...

Chinese netizens have expressed support as the government launched a campaign targeting the algorithms behind various ...

I ended up choosing Wikipedia because I figured it had good content and metadata for what I had planned—I did not want to use anything ml/ai for this project, so it was a perfect fit.” Though ...

The attempted “Great Meme Reset” reveals how inescapable the incoherent internet has become.

The ‘side eye bear cub’ meme that is bombarding every other reel’s comments section and such– is, in actuality– a puppy! Wait, what? Well, we have found the original video behind the meme, and it's ...

Floods of AI content are destroying social platforms. We outline real fixes like antitrust action and quitting feeds, so you ...

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

A few decades ago, a Super Bowl ad was the entirety of the marketing event. Apple’s classic ad from the 1984 Super Bowl was ...

AI offers great benefits to retailers, but using personal data to set individualized prices, called surveillance pricing, ...

The Endless Thread team talks with food author and baker Ruby Tandoh about how online food culture is changing what we cook and eat. Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson report. This segment aired on ...