Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

A drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool.

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the...

Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

This machine kills traitors

This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's...

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

A textbook-like anthology of classic essays and articles about video game narrative design.

We’re obviously in a really strange time for the arts in general: you’ve got a crap economy, everything costs more money, arts funding has dried up, and nobody has a job. This of course sounds absolut...

It's a webring! And a website!

Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.

An alarming new study reveals the dire impact AI is having on artists' livelihoods. It does offer some hope, too.

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

4 Pillars Gaming’s new website adds AI-generated slop to an already ephemeral online historical record.

AP Thomson's surreal strategy game creates the space for players to examine their ability to give things power.

A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

With Microsoft losing almost a quarter of its value this year, investors have reset the company's earnings multiple to the lowest since late 2022.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.

A digital memorial for defunct LGBTQ+ websites of the early internet. Created by Lenyx Dickey.