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The pages that are not about building anything. What AI does to work, to attention, to the open web, and to the parts of thinking worth protecting.
At work
What actually changes, and what does not.
DATED · 6 MIN · 7 SOURCESAI AND WORKNot mass unemployment — the bottom rung. What changed, when, and what it actually means.THE RECORD · 1 MINUSING AI AT WORKWhat should never go into a prompt, what to disclose, and what you stay answerable for when the output is…EXPLAINER · 3 MINThe Work AI Cannot TakeWhen machine output becomes infinite and free, value moves to what stays scarce: verifiably human work - witness,…EXPLAINER · 3 MINWhat AI Cannot CoverMachine content clusters around the well-covered middle, leaving gaps exactly where humans win: experience, original…EXPLAINER · 5 MINWhat Stays Human: slow, imperfect, on purposeAs machines make perfect cheap and fast free, the scarce things flip: slowness, flaws,…
Judgement
The skill that gets more valuable as generation gets cheaper.
EXPLAINER · 3 MIN · 1 SOURCESCritical Thinking Is the Skill of the AgeWhen machines can generate anything, the scarce human act is deciding what to believe.THE RECORD · 4 MIN · 8 SOURCESHow AI Influences You BackEveryone writes about how prompts shape models. The other direction is measured, substantial and largely invisible: sycophancy, foTHE RECORD · 4 MINHOW TO ASK AI WELLNot prompt tricks that expire with the next release. Sourced, dated, and revised when the numbers move.EXPLAINER · 3 MIN · 6 SOURCESHow to Explain AI to Someone ElseFor the person who has to justify a decision about AI to a class, a team, a board or a parent. The four questions you will be askeTHE RECORD · 4 MINWHEN NOT TO USE AINine cases where reaching for AI makes the outcome worse, from someone who uses these tools daily.
The state of the web
What happens when most of it is machine-made.
EXPLAINER · 5 MIN · 4 SOURCESWHAT THE INTERNET WASNot nostalgia. Explained plainly, with sources named and dated.EXPLAINER · 3 MIN · 1 SOURCESDead Internet Theory: what it claims, and what the evidence supportsWhy this site exists: not anti-AI, but an outlet on how the internet is reshaping — and why the dead internet theory is…EXPLAINER · 5 MIN · 3 SOURCESPages Written For Machines, Read By No OnePages written to be crawled, shops with nothing behind them, audiences that are not there.DATED · 5 MIN · 6 SOURCESAI AND THE OPEN WEBPublisher traffic is down about a third — and small sites lost the most.THE RECORD · 6 MIN · 3 SOURCESHOW MUCH IS BOTSMore than half of web traffic is automated — 53% in 2025 per Imperva and Thales.THE RECORD · 6 MIN · 9 SOURCESState of the Automated InternetHow much of the internet is machines? A quarterly, fully sourced snapshot: bot traffic share, AI-generated content…THE RECORD · 4 MIN · 3 SOURCESHOW TO SEARCH NOWMost searches now end without a click. Sourced, dated, and revised when the numbers move.
At home and at school
The conversations that come up.
DATED · 4 MIN · 5 SOURCESAI IN SCHOOLSAI detectors falsely flagged 61.2% of essays by non-native English writers.THE RECORD · 4 MIN · 3 SOURCESTHE HOUSEHOLD GUIDEPrintable. Sourced, dated, and revised when the numbers move.DATED · 1 MIN · 2 SOURCESAI COMPANIONSThey reduce loneliness in the short term. What changed, when, and what it actually means.EXPLAINER · 6 MIN · 1 SOURCESHow AI Got Into Your Tools Without AskingFree intelligence arrived like a gift at the gates. Explained plainly, with sources named and dated.
The vocabulary
Words used loosely, defined honestly.
EXPLAINER · 7 MINThe AI Glossary: sixty terms, honestly definedSixty AI terms defined in plain language as used in mid-2026: tokens, transformers, RAG, quantization, MoE, model…EXPLAINER · 4 MINAI Prompting Terms GlossaryEvery AI prompting term explained in plain language. CFG scale, denoising strength, LoRA, sampler, seed, steps, negative prompt, iEXPLAINER · 4 MINThe Automated-Internet Vocabulary: 25 termsFrom slop to model collapse to C2PA: twenty-five plain-language definitions for navigating the synthetic internet,…EXPLAINER · 3 MINContextual Prompting, Meaning: why "prompt engineering" quietly died — and what replaced itContextual prompting (context engineering) defined precisely: why reasoning models and AI agents ended prompt formulas,…EXPLAINER · 3 MINAGI, Meaning: what the term actually claims — and why nobody agreesAGI has four competing definitions — capability, economic, autonomy, and the levels gradient.
Where it goes next
Stated as forecast, not measurement.
EXPLAINER · 3 MINStill Optimistic — but everything is about to move faster, and we need to keep upA hopeful case for the AI future - and an honest worry: change now arrives in product cycles, not…EXPLAINER · 5 MIN · 2 SOURCESLocal or Cloud: Where Does AI Live Next?A no-sides study of local versus cloud AI in mid-2026: the roughly 3-6 month capability gap, the strongest honest case…EXPLAINER · 6 MIN · 1 SOURCESWhat AI Actually Runs On: sand, power, and heatDescend from silicon die to power grid: why GPUs, what memory bandwidth means, how a training run works, and the…THE RECORD · 1 MINFOLLOW THE RECORDThe record is revised four times a year. Sourced, dated, and revised when the numbers move.