Ian Bogost
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Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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It's called The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life, and it's about the sensory enchantment of everyday life.
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I didn’t realize this type of grocery bag still existed.
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I didn’t realize this type of grocery bag still existed.
People throw around “neoliberalism” far too much, but the meaning of neoliberalism is to use markets to solve any and all problems. In a way it’s a “relief” to face the barest, most gunmetal version of the thing, if only to marvel at it before it eradicates us.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
People throw around “neoliberalism” far too much, but the meaning of neoliberalism is to use markets to solve any and all problems. In a way it’s a “relief” to face the barest, most gunmetal version of the thing, if only to marvel at it before it eradicates us.
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The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Having been among the clobbered here, I am seeing positive, if slow, results—but only thanks to the dumb luck of having paid for extremely high-end insurance. Others in my orbit are not so lucky.
I did not previously understand how long disaster recovery takes, despite thinking that I did.
I did not previously understand how long disaster recovery takes, despite thinking that I did.
Months after the May 16 tornado, St. Louisans are seeing mixed results with insurance claims.
Some finally have new roofs; others remain in temporary housing.
Some finally have new roofs; others remain in temporary housing.
Months after the tornado, insurance fights drag on for St. Louis property owners
The St. Louis chapter of the NAACP is calling for a state investigation into insurance companies for possible bias.
www.stlpr.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Having been among the clobbered here, I am seeing positive, if slow, results—but only thanks to the dumb luck of having paid for extremely high-end insurance. Others in my orbit are not so lucky.
I did not previously understand how long disaster recovery takes, despite thinking that I did.
I did not previously understand how long disaster recovery takes, despite thinking that I did.
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Brilliant job working with me here at @technologyreview.com. Come and be our new editorial director, print and manage our bi-monthly print magazine (126 years and still going strong!) www.technologyreview.com/job/editoria...
Sr. Editorial Director, Print
Position Overview: Do you love print? Do you thrive on imagining eye-catching front of the book treatments, deeply reported features, and powerful photo essays? This is an incredible and rare opportun...
www.technologyreview.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Brilliant job working with me here at @technologyreview.com. Come and be our new editorial director, print and manage our bi-monthly print magazine (126 years and still going strong!) www.technologyreview.com/job/editoria...
The Answer to the problem of American home interior design has always been: Actually you want more rooms, and for each to be fit for purpose.
"What to do with the TV is among the most challenging design problems in today's American home"
Open-plan living rooms and swelling televisions pose an interior-design headache but dens and snugs may be the answer, writes Claire Keane.
www.dezeen.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Answer to the problem of American home interior design has always been: Actually you want more rooms, and for each to be fit for purpose.
“The value we’ve added”
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“The value we’ve added”
What the hell are we doing
Yes, This Is a Cookie
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What the hell are we doing
Incisive question from a high-schooler who emailed me. I do not know the answer.
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Incisive question from a high-schooler who emailed me. I do not know the answer.
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Loved this story by @ibogost.com, which is nominally about the Apple Watch, sure, but more remarkably about granting young people the right amounts of agency and dignity in the digital world that we really have no choice but to live in.
Get Your Kid a Watch
A smartwatch isn’t capable of doing that much harm. It can also do a lot of good.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Loved this story by @ibogost.com, which is nominally about the Apple Watch, sure, but more remarkably about granting young people the right amounts of agency and dignity in the digital world that we really have no choice but to live in.
Time to haul out the Bauhaus nativity.
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Time to haul out the Bauhaus nativity.
My colleagues @lilashroff.bsky.social, @cwarzel.bsky.social and I have a little trio of stories out for the anniversary of ChatGPT.
Here’s Lila on the people outsourcing their thinking to LLMs, and …
Here’s Lila on the people outsourcing their thinking to LLMs, and …
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My colleagues @lilashroff.bsky.social, @cwarzel.bsky.social and I have a little trio of stories out for the anniversary of ChatGPT.
Here’s Lila on the people outsourcing their thinking to LLMs, and …
Here’s Lila on the people outsourcing their thinking to LLMs, and …
Annual reminder that it’s called Cyber Monday because we kind of didn’t used to have internet at home, at least not high-speed broadband. So you’d spend the morning at work, on your “lightning fast” 1.5Mbps connection, exercising the still-new novelty of buying stuff online.
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Annual reminder that it’s called Cyber Monday because we kind of didn’t used to have internet at home, at least not high-speed broadband. So you’d spend the morning at work, on your “lightning fast” 1.5Mbps connection, exercising the still-new novelty of buying stuff online.
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"I am a huge fan of the classic TV series 'Law & Order.' And yet I cannot think of a single episode — among hundreds — in which a journalist is depicted as honorable." www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Why I’m begging TV showrunners to stop writing journalists as villains - Poynter
I will stop shouting at the TV screen when journalists are portrayed with all their virtues and vices — not as caricatures
www.poynter.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"I am a huge fan of the classic TV series 'Law & Order.' And yet I cannot think of a single episode — among hundreds — in which a journalist is depicted as honorable." www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
I am saying this as someone who grew up there, so I think I have the authority: Vince Gilligan’s reliance on Albuquerque for a setting-as-character is and always has been derogatory. This is a bad place where bad things happen. The sun and shadows and the big blue sky only underscore the threat.
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I am saying this as someone who grew up there, so I think I have the authority: Vince Gilligan’s reliance on Albuquerque for a setting-as-character is and always has been derogatory. This is a bad place where bad things happen. The sun and shadows and the big blue sky only underscore the threat.
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
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Easy (and appropriate) to blame this situation on AI. But that's the proximate cause.
The ultimate cause is the catastrophic, shameful state of scientific publishing, which incentivizes the largest number of the most incremental papers/results, rather than pursuing the best work on its merits.
The ultimate cause is the catastrophic, shameful state of scientific publishing, which incentivizes the largest number of the most incremental papers/results, rather than pursuing the best work on its merits.
The enshitification of scientific publishing marches on. First arXiv had to clamp down on submissions thanks to a flood of AI-written papers.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Easy (and appropriate) to blame this situation on AI. But that's the proximate cause.
The ultimate cause is the catastrophic, shameful state of scientific publishing, which incentivizes the largest number of the most incremental papers/results, rather than pursuing the best work on its merits.
The ultimate cause is the catastrophic, shameful state of scientific publishing, which incentivizes the largest number of the most incremental papers/results, rather than pursuing the best work on its merits.
Sometimes I think about simple things that don’t even require ML but nevertheless don’t get implemented.
Such as, iMessage could weight terms that have appeared recently in a conversation, or in the metadata in link preview cards, and treat them as words that don’t require autocorrection.
Such as, iMessage could weight terms that have appeared recently in a conversation, or in the metadata in link preview cards, and treat them as words that don’t require autocorrection.
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sometimes I think about simple things that don’t even require ML but nevertheless don’t get implemented.
Such as, iMessage could weight terms that have appeared recently in a conversation, or in the metadata in link preview cards, and treat them as words that don’t require autocorrection.
Such as, iMessage could weight terms that have appeared recently in a conversation, or in the metadata in link preview cards, and treat them as words that don’t require autocorrection.
Oh hi, I wrote this in 2017.
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism
Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.
www.theatlantic.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Oh hi, I wrote this in 2017.
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
“Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”
Boiler season 2025-2026 has begun
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Boiler season 2025-2026 has begun
Michael Clune has a new piece for us about AI in college, which is worth your time.
But reading it made me think of something tangential: The same broad-based, cross-disciplinary training Clune advocates for students has been pretty much abandoned among experts. We are alone in the disciplines.
But reading it made me think of something tangential: The same broad-based, cross-disciplinary training Clune advocates for students has been pretty much abandoned among experts. We are alone in the disciplines.
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Michael Clune has a new piece for us about AI in college, which is worth your time.
But reading it made me think of something tangential: The same broad-based, cross-disciplinary training Clune advocates for students has been pretty much abandoned among experts. We are alone in the disciplines.
But reading it made me think of something tangential: The same broad-based, cross-disciplinary training Clune advocates for students has been pretty much abandoned among experts. We are alone in the disciplines.