Category: Bad Tech

I had an unsatisfying conversation with a Young Republican today, but it made me notice something about right-wing politics and how it’s talked about in “mixed company.” Dedicated and ambitious conservatives are very aware of how bad their politics look to most people when laid out to them, so they…

Did you know the founder of Palantir wrote a book? No, not the cartoonishly evil freak who rants about the antichrist. The other one, CEO Alex Karp. The Technological Republic came out last year, but yesterday, Palantir tweeted (thank you XCancel) a 22-point summary of it, and if you have…

So, yesterday Dan Salvato posted on the Serenity Forge Facebook feed that Doki Doki Literature Club Plus was just taken down from the Google Play Store. In other words, there’s no direct way to play it on Android devices now. According to the post, it was removed because it violates…

The headline isn’t hyperbole, so fuck me, I guess. What are we even doing here? Full story, which I first saw shared by Kotaku: On March 6, Esquire Singapore published an interview conducted by Joy Ling of Netflix’s live-action One Piece’s Roronoa Zoro actor Mackenyu’s… LLM AI-generated doppelganger. And the…

I was torn on whether the headline would say “suicide” or “unaliving,” and that itself is a pretty good place to start. Content sharing and streaming platforms are messing with language itself in the name of protecting children. Vague policies on what’s considered appropriate subject matter are broadly enforced by…