Self-optimization has become a dominant idiom of contemporary American masculinity, crystallizing in a rising cohort of male influencers centered around reaching ‘maximum potential’ physically and ...

The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

The attention economy goes apocalyptic

When I first turned to ChatGPT to run my social life, I felt weird. But AI made me a better texter and I became someone who actually planned hangouts.

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...

What does it mean to feel seen by a machine?

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

11:59 a.m. The tiny clock at the bottom of the screen counts down to the top of the hour, and like a bizarre bell chime from a digital clocktower, large pink text overtakes the Whitney Museum’s websit...

When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.

This article employs Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) to analyze the affective public surrounding the hashtag #christiantiktok. We find that “C...

How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc