I think we're hurtling towards a future where content is generated for us on the fly—Spotify Made for You playlists on steroids

spent the weekend unpicking old Twine code. the horror.

Do NOT recommend moving to Bergen with a dog who hates being out in the rain. Just had to bribe mine to stay out long enough to take a shit. Assured mutual misery.

Had a lot of fun riffing on fantastic articles and interviews by @mezbreeze.bsky.social, @yolandadgr.bsky.social, and Tuuli Hongisto for this month’s @electronicbr.bsky.social newsletter! Liminality with a touch of Bridget Jones—

I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever scholar.archive.org

New TikTok Content Scraper out there github.com/Q-Bukold/Tik...

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social #bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

AI has made spellcheck dumber, prove me wrong

Having finally watched Better Man, I’m wondering: can ALL movies be thematically elevated by replacing the protagonist with a human-like CGI chimpanzee?

At what point does user-led adaptive algospeak transform into newspeak? Would be doubleplusgood to figure this out before oldthink is unalived

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Ey yooo but did you know there’s a new @electronicbr.bsky.social newsletter out?

sleep paralysis is one of those things in life where I sympathise with early humanity. without contemporary science, I’d totally think I’d just been possessed

Downloaded The Sims 4 a couple days ago and I’m pleasantly surprised by how good just the base game is now

Our January issue is finally on, check it out at usual outlet and continue reading an impressive essay The Praxis of the Procedural Model of Digital Literature by Philippe Bootz (with it we bring a very interesting French research of electronic literature). electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-pr...

My research just led me to a cringe so powerful it momentarily obliterated my sense of self

iOS 6 skeuomorphism versus iOS 7 flat design #MobileAppHistory

An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Just when you think things in the UK can’t get any worse, the government always manages to surprise you

Nosferatu once again making me question Hollywood’s inability to adapt Dracula in a way that doesn’t do the Harkers incredibly dirty

“As a flesh-based intelligence system, I’m too insecure about my level of knowledge to try answering your question. Please ask something else.”

Honestly can’t believe I live here

Yes but can we talk about the queering of Regina George in Mean Girls (2024) plz

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Our December issue is out! New content listed in a thread below. Please read, share, interact :-)

The December issue of @electronicbr.bsky.social is out and I’m here to promote some excellent barking*: electronicbookreview.com/december-202...

‘Help! My personality has been scraped for a general artificial intelligence agent’ and other 21st century problems (2053) Navneson, N. Textpocalypse Press.

video podcast noun Accidental reinvention of the roundtable TV programme by online content creators

If Crowley was responsible for the M25, he definitely invented the UK's student loan system.