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Taste in the Age of Machines

AI can generate infinite content, but it can’t decide what deserves to exist. Taste, built slowly through exposure, is the one judgment a machine can’t hand you.

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A Field Guide to Antimemetics

Nadia Asparouhova’s new book maps ideas engineered to disappear. The most consequential ones, it turns out, are the ones that resist spreading.

The Case for Letting Teenagers Online

Everyone agrees kids should be kept off the internet. Everyone is a little wrong, and the messy version of growing up online is worth defending.

The Phones Aren’t Doing It to You

Envy, narcissism, and loneliness are things technology amplifies, not things it creates. The fentanyl analogy for social media is worse than useless.

Technological Progress Is Not Inevitable

We treat progress as the default setting of history. It isn’t, and the conditions that produce it are far easier to dismantle than to build.

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