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MIT Technology Review publishes Charlie Jane Anders' fiction piece "Love is infrastructure," a whimsical story personifying cities (Mainspring and St. Barnabas) as romantic rivals to explore themes of technology, civic systems, and human connection.
A tweet marveling at how a piece of media made in 2011 predicted the increasingly chaotic, notification-driven, and productivity-killing nature of modern computer usage.
This blog post reflects on the romanticized notion of solitary grinding, using wrestling as a metaphor, and cautions against isolation in technological bubbles that reinforce personal assumptions.
An excerpt from Ian Bogost's book argues that automation is eroding direct physical control of machines, using the decline of manual transmissions as a key example of lost sensory engagement and meaning.
A Hacker News discussion thread featuring Ross Anderson (or a related figure) clarifying false rumors about their death, sparked by AI hallucinations, with comments on the risks of digital identity fraud and the irony of AI errors.