Enshittification, the idea that online platforms, particularly social networks and social media, degrade once they become popular, is a fiction, according to Ruby Thelot, Professor of Design, AI and Media Theory, at New York University. Because, rather than turning away from from the likes of Facebook, Instagram,...

explorator.dev: Then… I finally realised. I’m not addicted to the internet, neither to my smartphone. I’m addicted to information. Good information, in particular. The web, smartphones, and social media keep that information tap flowing. A teacher of mine often to used say: “there is no such thing as too much...

Ange Lavoipierre, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), quoting Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram (IG): “If you go to a chronological feed, it ends up getting overwhelmed with content from companies, brands, and publishers. Creators get drowned out, and then your friends get drowned out even...

The productivity suite, which includes a word processor and spreadsheet, similar to Office 365 (though I understand it is now called Microsoft 365), was downloaded about one-million times the other week. One-million downloads. Amazeballs. LibreOffice’s surge in popularity has been attributed to the absence of AI...

There’s been yet more speculation as to the identity of the Italian author known as Elena Ferrante. The writer of novels including the Neapolitan Quartet, and The Lying Lives of Adults, has always been upfront about their use of a pseudonym. And despite writing novels since 1992, her identity, their identity, has,...

It’s almost enough to entice me back onto social media. But not quite. The Australian government is proposing to give local social media users the choice to opt out the algorithms that determine the content they see. If the laws eventuate, social media companies will be obliged to allow their members to only see...

On the subject of less than faithful book-to-film adaptations, it sounds like a sequel to 2011’s the Adventures of Tintin might be on the way. To be precise, New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, who collaborated with Steve Spielberg to make the 2011 film, said, earlier this year, he was writing a screenplay for a...

Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, has lashed American film director Christopher Nolan’s recent adaptation of The Odyssey, in a recent London Review of Books article. Wilson, who translated the version of the Odyssey, a poem traditionally attributed...

Eleven websites have been selected as finalists for this year’s Tiny Awards, and you can vote for your favourite. Polling closes on Friday 25 September 2026. There’s some awesome late-nineties web design vibes to found among the 2026 finalists.

I’ve been reading Josh Ellis’ blog for a couple of years maybe, since finding a link there on Dense Discovery once. Ellis has been at it since 2004, so achievement unlocked. In his latest post, he ruminates about writing a book. Acquaintances of his have made the suggestion over the years. I’ve had the same. “You...

Shouldn’t it be the other way around? It seems not. The more people use AI agents, the more robotic their behaviour comes, says Victor Tangermann, writing for Futurism. Tangermann’s article brings to mind the trailer for The Social Reckoning, which I linked to a few days ago, and the robotic-like demeanour of Meta...

Murat Demirbas suggests the work of writers might be amongst the safest from AI, a notion that defies broader thinking on the subject: In systems theory, a wicked problem is a problem that lacks a definitive formulation, a clear stopping rule, and an objectively correct solution. Writing is the ultimate wicked...