







Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
At least a quarter of the more than 100 billion messages sent to our chatbots are attempts to initiate romantic or sexual exchanges.

Amelia Wattenberger
I create things on the web, explore novel interfaces, turn data into meaning, and empower devs with AI.
Being a female Developer
My name is Sanni Oluwatoyin Yetunde and I am a software developer at Andela. My journey into the programming world was inspired by a deep…

Rosano
hello I'm a technologist, writer, and musician, mostly producing personal projects. This is my home on the web. Find more in my blog, vlog, and log. Now in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 . connection Strolling conversations with people I meet along the way thick skin, open heart If it was guaranteed to feel good, I wouldn't be open to whatever happens. visual family cosmos one surname is not "where you're from". introducing Occasion Shifting from "I should take less space" to "I'd like to connect regularly with people who want more".


Weaver - Long-form writing
I grew up, like a lot of people on Bluesky, in the era of the internet where most of your online social interactions took place via text. I had a MySpace account, MSN messenger and Google Chat, I first got on Facebook back when they required a school email to sign up, I had a Tumblr, though not a LiveJournal. I was super into reddit for a long time. Big fan of Fanfiction.net and later Archive of Our Own.

Lily Simpson
A Liability Framework for AI Companions
<p><span>Every day tens of millions of people engage in online conversations. These virtual interactions range from casual chats about daily life to deeply pers
localghost
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.

Interview with Olivia Ross, Black Girls CODE alumna and game designer
Olivia Ross is a high school sophomore at Phillips Exeter Academy. After teaching herself to code in junior high, she found herself addicted to this new medium for her creativity.…

Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …

How social media is fueling an intense form of romantic obsession
The digital world is primed to fuel episodes of profound infatuation known as limerence.