AI slop and enshittification are making the public social commons unbearable. The alternative pathways are more accessible than you think.

Researchers develop a lightweight algorithm designed to reorganise network connections to enable secure, low-latency data ...

Young people are taking to social media and other platforms to carve out algorithmic spaces for French speakers ...

The attempted “Great Meme Reset” reveals how inescapable the incoherent internet has become.

The ‘side eye bear cub’ meme that is bombarding every other reel’s comments section and such– is, in actuality– a puppy! Wait, what? Well, we have found the original video behind the meme, and it's ...

Floods of AI content are destroying social platforms. We outline real fixes like antitrust action and quitting feeds, so you ...

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

A few decades ago, a Super Bowl ad was the entirety of the marketing event. Apple’s classic ad from the 1984 Super Bowl was ...

The Endless Thread team talks with food author and baker Ruby Tandoh about how online food culture is changing what we cook and eat. Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson report. This segment aired on ...

I am beginning to understand the self-radicalising power of the bubble, after I was sucked into a doomscroll of violence.

While we’re still waiting to find out how Brett Ratner’s new documentary Melania will do in its debut weekend at the box office—having been propelled there by a suspiciously massive marketing push ...

The new trend that has made its way from TikTok and over to Instagram and Facebook has rapidly grown in popularity in the ...