What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
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This is where the data to build AI comes from
New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.
Feminist Design Archive
An open-source, community-generated digital library that aims to document, preserve and illuminate the work of feminist designers around the globe.
#13: I Don’t Want OpenAI to Support the Arts, I Want Them to Keep the Fuck Away From It
Reposting a public letter as part of the action around the recent OpenAI Sora leak.
Climate policy is on a collision course with physical reality
There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate policy-making elite with their focus on distant goals, market solutions and non-disruptive change, and activists and key researchers who see the world hurtling towards climate breakdown and social collapse.
‘People should feel there’s more than doom and gloom’: Monument Valley 3’s environmentalist hope-punk
How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle game
Playing for the Planet
The State of UX in 2025
From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.
The most surprising tech champions of 2024
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
Workers farm at night to avoid intense heat – but it can lead to other negative effects
From farm workers in Brazil to India and the US midwest, shifting to a schedule where it’s dark out could mean dangerous conditions and less food
The abject weirdness of AI ads | TechCrunch
"I'm trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife's advice." That's Browser Company CEO, Josh Miller, in his
TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds
Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123 miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows
A regenerative organisational design primer
Resources for practising regenerative organisational design
Media Overload: Why We Need Less, Not More Content · Dataetisk Tænkehandletank
Much of the AI hype revolves around accelerating production in areas where needs are already...
AI can now create a replica of your personality
A two-hour interview is enough to accurately capture your values and preferences, according to new research from Stanford and Google DeepMind.
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
A Blog post by Pierre-Carl Langlais on Hugging Face
Archival Images of AI Playbook
Guidelines, tools, techniques, and image-making briefs to help you craft your own images of AI.
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
"Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within."
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
The ChatGPT secret: is that text message from your friend, your lover – or a robot?
People are turning to chatbots to solve all their life problems, and they like its answers. But are they on a very slippery slope?
Australia is connected to the world by cables no thicker than a garden hose – and at risk from sharks, accidents and sabotage
Last month two Baltic Sea cables were damaged and experts say Australia’s cables are not immune from threats. How worried should we be?
The Climate-Driven Diaspora Is Here
In 2025, extreme weather will drive more people from their homes. Governments have no plan. Where will they be welcome?
AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse
BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring their performance.
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
Tree of Life | Atmos
The tree of life connects us all. Now, more than ever, we must draw strength from its roots, reground, and push forward to protect it.
The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were
The rapid growth of ‘AI slop’ – content created by artificial tools – is starting to warp our perception of what is, or could be, real
Introducing our grid-aware websites project - Green Web Foundation
AI agents are easily fooled by malicious pop-ups
AI agents click on malicious popups that human users would easily avoid.
AI Confessions: A Guide from Both Sides of the Prompt - Part 1
When an AI Writes Its Own Manual (And Its Human Handler Wants to Make You Laugh)
Concerned about your data use? Here is the carbon footprint of an average day of emails, WhatsApps and more
Vast datacentres are being built worldwide, amid growing concerns about the environmental costs. So should we all be considering a data diet – if not complete digital sobriety?
Can AI influence how you feel about someone without you knowing?
A new study suggests that AI can be used to covertly manipulate how you feel about someone when engaging over video
When Search Met AI: A Silicon Valley Romance Gone Wrong
You know that couple everyone thought was perfect? Well, the drama just escalated - enter SearchGPT