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Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

By James Folta | February 19, 2025

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like <em>Elden Ring</em>

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play

By Nick Newman | February 19, 2025

From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

David Hajdu Explores the Creative and Technical Evolution of a Versatile Electric Instrument

By David Hajdu | February 14, 2025

The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

By James Folta | February 7, 2025

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence

By Webb Keane | February 7, 2025

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Surekha Davies on Machines, Monsters and Why Humanity is Still Worth Fighting For

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It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI.

It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI.

By James Folta | January 14, 2025

My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife

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Meredith D. Clark on Social Media as a Space of Solidarity and Community in the Face of Fascist Takeover

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Fable’s AI-generated end-of-year reading summaries veered into bigotry.

Fable’s AI-generated end-of-year reading summaries veered into bigotry.

By James Folta | January 8, 2025

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