Tag: digital dystopia

• The year of technoligarchy

  January 7, 2026

  In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall. https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/ more ›

• Shoshana Zuboff, philosopher: ‘AI is surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand’ | Technology | EL PAÍS English

  December 17, 2025

  The author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ applauds the EU’s initiatives to curb big tech and calls on the bloc not to bow to pressure from Trump https://share.google/XqbIalBnPBqlzC7DQ more ›

• A Tool That Crushes Creativity – The Atlantic

  December 15, 2025

  AI slop is winning. https://share.google/SaDMztL1AxYc6fikO more ›

• Interesting Times with Ross Douthat: ‘This Is the War Against Human Nature’

  November 15, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/m6W01fX “There’s something very spiritually dark about the internet,” the author Paul Kingsnorth tells Ross Douthat in this week’s episode of “Interesting Times.” Kingsnorth warns against the expanding presence… more ›

• A Tool That Crushes Creativity – The Atlantic

  October 23, 2025

  AI slop is winning. https://share.google/SaDMztL1AxYc6fikO more ›

• Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report – AI Now Institute

  October 14, 2025

  In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies – and the tech oligarchs that run them –… more ›

• CLOUD – OFFICIAL US TRAILER

  September 13, 2025

  A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black… more ›

• Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

  July 23, 2025

  The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan. https://www.wired.com/story/president-trump-ai-action-plan-speech/ more ›

• Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok

  July 3, 2025

  Content warning: This article contains racist and antisemitic imagery, videos, and language.  These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist… more ›

• Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report – AI Now Institute

  June 21, 2025

  Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, puts forward an actionable strategy for the public to reclaim agency over the future of AI. In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” the report… more ›