A controversial anonymous document exposing Claude remnants in fics has collided with a fandom culture of production at hyper-speed.
Fandom as an Alternative Network
Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things
Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future
Fanhackers – Your guide to research on fans.
Matt Hills is a fan studies and media scholar of really wide breadth, expertise, and versatility, author of the classic fan studies text Fan Cultures (2002) as well as a number of subsequent monographs: How To Do Things With Cultural Theory (2005),The Pleasures of Horror (2005), Triumph of a time lord (2010), Blade Runner (2011) Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event (2015) – he’s also one of the editors of Transatlantic Television Drama (2019), the Doctor Who reader Adventures Across Space and Time (2023), and Theatre Fandom (2025) as well as a prolific writer of essays and book chapters on a broad swath of fandoms, practices, and cult classics: Star Wars, Veronica Mars, Torchwood, Sherlock, Buffy, Lord of the Rings, and more.
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Stop saying there's no plot! A romance critic explains the craft of the sex scenes in Crave's Heated Rivalry (2025).
Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry
How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.
Announcing Fanfiction.lol: A Manifesto on Human Creativity and AO3
I deployed my own AO3 fork called fanfiction.lol, an independent fanfiction archive with no invite queue, fandom-agnostic moderation, and expanded content warnings. A manifesto on why fan communities deserve free infrastructure, the history of transformative works from Virgil to AO3, and the challenges of running a volunteer-powered archive at scale.
FR#161 – Conference Edition
How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.
AI-slop , GrantaGate and Bad Writing
AI writes poorly because it has crammed too much fanfic jargon
How AI Datacenters Eat the World
Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
I am just returning from our conference on Cooperative AI in Istanbul. Part of what I love about conferences—what keeps me doing this, convening these global PCC events —is meeting people who are both…
The Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?
The Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?
1,000 True Fans
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →
How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Human–AI Collaboration at Scale: Task Criticality, Agency, and Friction Across 250,000 Conversations
Stanford University researchers analyzed nearly 250,000 real-world human-AI conversations from Claude.ai to understand collaborative dynamics, finding that over half of interactions involve...
