We have outsourced our thinking to machines, and in doing so, we have apparently also outsourced our attention spans. The modern workflow for a shocking number of people is as follows: 1. Pose query to AI. 2. Highlight the text.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a universal fact that the acceptability of our actions depends less on the actions themselves and more on the specific, often unspoken, rules of the scenario we find ourselves in. Take, for instance, the simple act of shouting. Bellowing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes, even our escapes from reality come with deadlines, guilt, and the crushing weight of self-imposed expectations. We’ve reached a point where our hobbies don’t relax us; they assign us homework. Gone are the days of casually enjoying a TV[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our biggest worry about dying used to be how our family would be taken care of and whether they would fight over the record collection. But in the digital age? You leave behind a forensic trail so detailed, future historians[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There exists a special breed of social media terrorist who delights in tagging you in photos where you look like a sleep-deprived raccoon who just witnessed a crime. These digital sadists operate with the precision of a sniper, waiting until[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a special kind of comedy in watching someone become deeply offended by something that was clearly never meant for them in the first place. It’s like watching a vegan protest a steakhouse or a cat demand to know why[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are some overprotective parents who treat their grown child’s first steps into adulthood like watching a toddler navigate a minefield—if the minefield was a studio apartment and the toddler had a graduate degree. These helicopter parents have upgraded their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If the internet had a VIP section for data harvesting, the most valuable patrons wouldn’t be the influencers, the conspiracy theorists, or the terminally online hot-take artists. No, the real goldmine is boring people. The ones whose search history is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Microsoft has an odd fascination with naming their assistants words that begin with “C.” Cortana, Copilot, and Clippy. Remember Clippy, Microsoft’s eternally optimistic paperclip that haunted our Word documents like a helpful ghost with zero social awareness? “It looks like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There was a time when the dim glow of a CRT screen and the symphony of synthesized bleeps and bloops represented the pinnacle of human civilization—the golden age of the arcade. For those of us who grew up in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…