AI ethics, bias, misinformation, copyright, labor, and harm. Stories that examine the moral questions behind technology and the consequences of how it is built and used.
~AI
The most human thing about us has always been our urge to build sanctuaries. Now coders, neuroscientists, and AI are helping us build them inside the machine — and the results are stranger and more tender than you'd expect.
~Culture
A Cameroonian village, a London gallery, and an economist walk into the same argument: that value is something we make together at every scale — or it isn't value at all. Observatory on fractal economies, recursive justice, and what Whitechapel just quietly admitted it doesn't know.
~AI
AI can recycle the same 25 jokes forever, outscore most humans at humor tasks, and still not know when to shut up. What machines are learning about comedy — and what comedy reveals about the machines.
~Culture
The Gunditjmara people built a system that ran for six thousand years. What did they know about work, technology, and ecosystems that we've forgotten?
~Technology
When code travels without permission, artists have been asking what it could carry instead — and one strange new program answers with pixel vegetables.
~Space
The Artemis II crew came home to San Diego. The quieter story — about money, cooperation, and renewable energy — is still unfolding on the ground.
~Culture
Marcus built a color-coded spreadsheet to track his Chipotle points. He's not alone. Inside a loyalty app designed to extract money, something stranger and more human is happening.
~Culture
In Bucharest, queer communities are taking over abandoned communist-era buildings — turning architecture built for control into spaces for dancing, belonging, and something the original architects never intended.
~Art
Joost Rekveld spent seven years arguing with his machines to make one film. What he learned about tools, resistance, and creative control is exactly what musicians trapped in template culture need to hear.
~Art
The silence inside a museum, that held breath before objects that outlasted every living witness, is getting harder to hear. When political actors treat cultural institutions as messaging tools, shared memory is what they put at risk.
~AI
Imagine a world where AI never touched a canvas
~Culture
A federal antitrust trial is pitting 33 states against Live Nation and Ticketmaster — the company whose own employees bragged about "robbing fans blind." Here's what a real fix looks like.