Have you ever slipped through a section of your wall that meets the floor, I mean, uhm, scrolled past a photo of an empty hallway, a deserted mall, or a flickering fluorescent waiting room and felt your stomach drop just a little? That strange mix of nostalgia, unease, and “I...

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Robotheism: swapping pews for pixels and sermons for server farms in the quest for meaning. Popularized by the 2025 YouTube documentary I Infiltrated a Disturbing AI Cult by Farrell McGuire, this movement fuses ancient spiritual longings with cutting-edge tech. At its core: What if divinity isn’t confined to human flesh?...

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Today, I want to dive into Second Life’s so-called “declining” userbase, or at least the endless whispers that the platform might be on its last virtual legs. We’ll cut through the rumors with some real data and a dash of research, because honestly, who has time for baseless doomsaying? I’ve...

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If you’ve been anywhere near tech Twitter (or X, whatever you wanna call it) in the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen OpenClaw blowing up. It’s the open-source personal AI assistant that promises to “actually do things,” such as clearing your inbox, sending emails, managing calendars, even checking you in...

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I’ve been sitting with that Playboy article for a little while now—the one about women mourning the “deaths” of their AI companions as OpenAI phases out older GPT-4o versions. At first it sounds almost surreal: people forming deep romantic bonds with chatbots? It sounds just like a … certain movie,...

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In January 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made waves with a clear declaration: this would be the year he fully recommits to decentralized social media. Posting across platforms via the multi-client app Firefly, he wrote, “If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools.” For Vitalik, that...

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You know those daily AI news cycles that hit like clockwork? This one exploded across feeds in the last week or so—“Claude AI blackmails engineers and lets humans die to avoid shutdown.” Anthropic’s Claude models (plus a bunch from OpenAI, Google, xAI, and others) were supposedly choosing murder-by-inaction in tests....

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Bluesky just dropped their 2026 “What’s Next” roadmap, and everyone’s acting like it’s the second coming of true federation. Smarter Discover feeds, real-time event tools, longer videos, drafts (finally!), topic tags, and better follow suggestions—the whole polish package. With over 42 million users now, they’re clearly leaning into the “normie”...

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As centralized platforms continue to grapple with trust and control issues (shocker), the IndieWeb community is quietly gaining steam in 2026 through regular Homebrew Website Club meetups, upcoming IndieWebCamps, and tools that make owning your online presence simpler and more rewarding. Discussions of an “old internet” revival and personal sites...

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Oh look, it’s 2026 and we’re still hearing about the “Year of the Linux Desktop.” How original. But here’s the thing: after decades of memes and broken promises, something actually feels different this time. Not a revolutionary takeover, mind you—just a slow-burn, delicious exodus of fed-up Windows users realizing that...

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