A newsletter about Pop Culture, Software Studies, Business Strategy, Media Platforms, Algorithmic Management, Game Design, and everything in between.
FEATURED
How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
-
India’s informal e-waste recycling economy turns millions of discarded electronics into profit while exposing workers to hazardous conditions. https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/ more ›
-
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-culture?currentPage=all more ›
-
Neo Expressionism first appeared in the late 1970s and 1980s as a sharp break from the cool restraint of minimalism and conceptual art. With its vivid colors, https://theluxuryplaybook.com/neo-expressionism-vs-trophy-art/ more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/RLPVFiT David Omand, ex-head of GCHQ, the British government's world-renowned cyber agency, explores how intelligence officers exploit the latest technological advances. Image: Digital espionage is on the rise. Credit: Stu Gray / Alamy Stock Photo August 28, 2025 more ›
-
EU finance ministers are racing to agree on the legal framework for a digital euro by the end of 2025, but thorny issues remain, from privacy and data protections to limits on holdings and the role of non-euro countries. #EuropeNews… more ›
-
Small LLMs in low-resource languages can be more accurate and avoid reliance on U.S. and Chinese AI models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek. https://restofworld.org/2025/mongolia-egune-ai-llm/ more ›
-
In recent months “neijuan” (内卷), or “involution,” has become one of the most important buzzwords in Chinese policymaking circles. It has come to describe a disruptive process of relentless competition and price cutting among Chinese businesses, and has been increasingly… more ›