A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter
AI is now unpopular. That may not make a difference.
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
Stuck in the middle: Being an engineer & artist in the AI era | Annie Sexton | Offprint
I'm an AI skeptic, through and through. But I also voluntarily use AI nearly every day. So naturally, you might be asking: what the heck?
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.
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The degree to which you are awed by AI is perfectly correlated with how much you use AI to code.— staysaasy (@staysaasy) April 9, 2026
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.
The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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I think it’s telling that people very interested in AI (like Eugene and myself) still have no interest in using it as a proxy for human communication. “Being a good writer” is not the same thing as having social agency, and making the models even better at writing won’t change that.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
When you deploy heavily LLM text, you currently have no way to prove that you actually read it and therefore cannot convince me to read it
Very eager to hear people’s thoughts on this video. I think he explains the issues with the left’s current rhetoric surrounding AI very well.
The Left Has An AI Problem
youtu.beThey built this reddit-like platform "Moltbook" where thousands of AI agents cosplay as sentient robots, pushing more people into AI psychosis, meanwhile our world crumbles over scarce resources 🫠 TO WHAT PROBLEM IS THIS A SOLUTION??? arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/0…
AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
arstechnica.comGrappling with AI
AI*-powered news/journalism
Also including prose in general aside from scientific papers and creative writing, like editorials, opinion columns, and essays, unless I separate them out into another collection * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Seattle Times Journalists Picket Newsroom Over Low Pay and Threats of Being Replaced by AI
Are newspaper opinion sections embracing AI-written op-eds?
AI and the crisis of the author
New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article
We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times
New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use
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AI Science Fiction Versus Reality
Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI...
When the Commons Appropriates a Large Language Model: How WikiVault Reshaped Korean Wikipedia
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
Can AI slop help us save the internet?
