Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse
Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
To Walk This Distant Shore with You by A.D. Sui
AGENTWORLD | *
An exploration of planetary intelligence, tracing how computation and cosmology—from ancient mechanisms to AI—reshape Earth and its possible futures.
The Same Old Fantasies Behind AI and New Technology
A review of Adam Becker, “More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity” (Basic Books, 2025).
The Protagonist Problem - Uncanny Magazine
“Speculative Resistance”—a term coined by Malka Older—posits that one great power speculative fiction wields is that exploring other worlds and ways societies could work encourages people to question extant systems, to imagine alternatives, to hope, to act, and to reject the old hope-ending “because that’s the way it is.” The author Ursula K. Le Guin […]
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
When Humans Are No Longer Born Human by Zhu Yixuan
Kyle Booten
Noöhacking1 is the title of my current research program. I use this term for ways that artists and everyday digital media users build and repurpose algorithmic tools in order to take care of their own minds/spirits, an especially challenging and important task amidst a digital milieu that seems designed to make us alienated, unintelligent, and miserable.
The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age | The Walrus
Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?
A Primordial Computing Soup
Fostering AI art scenius, creating an open planetary network of robots
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”
AI and Work (Some Predictions) - Cal Newport
One of the main topics of this newsletter is the quest to cultivate sustainable and meaningful work in a digital age. Given this objective, it’s ... Read more
Social Physics by Alex Pentland: 9780143126331 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence...
Algorithm Mediated Experiences
On the effects of algorithms on everyday experiences
AI in Disguise—Quasi-Experimental Analysis of a Large-Scale Deployment of AI-Generated Ads
The Effects of Search Interface on Consumer Preferences: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse
State media control influences large language models
The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models
Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships