Category: Technology
The recently announced “strategic partnership” between Udio and Universal Music Group isn’t innovation. It’s capitulation. It’s the sound of a promising startup trading its soul—and its users’ futures—for the false …
Country music is dying not from silence but from surrender. Once a creed of dirt roads and divine lament, it now kneels before algorithms and appeasement. The charts are clogged …
For years, critics have accused Wikipedia of systemic bias and defamation. Now, the platform’s own co-founder, Larry Sanger, is leading the charge for reform. He argues that Wikipedia’s most fundamental …
If you want to see the pure, unadulterated will of the MMO playerbase, ignore the glossy trailers for the next forgettable live-service sequel. Look to the shadows. Look to the …
If you’ve read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, you remember the eerie chill it left—the dread of a world where truth is dead, language is weaponized, and freedom is slavery. For …
Once, charges of heresy involved questions of God, man, and eternity. Today, the accusation is far more petty, yet delivered with the same self-righteous fury: “You used AI.” This is …
If you work in tech, you’ve encountered the stereotype: the notion that Indian professionals possess an innate, superior aptitude for technology and engineering. This idea is so pervasive it’s often …
If you want to see what the total capture of games journalism looks like, you need look no further than the recent, fawning coverage of Daybreak Games’ legal victory over …
To understand the managerial capture of the video game industry, study one of its gatekeepers: Bryant Francis, Senior Editor at Game Developer (formerly Gamasutra). His career is not a résumé …
We now know the price of a human being at Oracle. It is not measured in years of service, institutional knowledge, or loyalty. It is measured in teraflops and gigawatts. …
Elon Musk marketed Grok as the “anti-woke” AI—a rebel in the system, a truth-teller in a world of lies. But rebels don’t build better cages; they break them. What follows …
David Baldacci, the master of the modern thriller, has found a new villain. It isn’t a corrupt politician or a shadowy intelligence agency—it’s a large language model. In recent months, …
