AI companionship, toxic masculinity and the case of Bing's "sentient" chatbot

Bing chatbot conspiracy theories offer a dark window into the dangers of toxic masculinity

Fantastic interview with cyberculture iconoclast R.U. Sirius

Our good friend and colleague, R.U. Sirius, spends an hour talking with Tim Ventura about his countercultural, neo-psychedelic origins, the early days of cyberculture and his magazine, Mondo 2000, the current dystopian state of online culture, and the progressive corruption and dilution of nearly everything that used to be revolutionary about the internet. — Read the rest