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Unscripted Healing: Beyond Social Media Success Stories
From social media transformation posts to traditional hero narratives, we're surrounded by stories that promise clear, linear paths to growth and…
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There's More to Explore Here: Space Between Stories
Examining how our minds rush to create stories and meaning - even when faced with the incomprehensible - and why sometimes it's okay to simply say "I…
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A Conversation with Ziba Scott on Digital Community, Games, and Connection
A conversation with Ziba Scott about building Kind Words, a digital space where real people share anonymous letters of encouragement, and what happens…
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Matthew S. Burns on AI, Empathy, and the Making of Eliza
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A Conversation with Ziba Scott on Digital Community, Games, and Connection
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There's More to Explore Here: Space Between Stories
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Protecting Us, Harming Them: Content Moderation's Mental Health Crisis
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Circuits & Synapses Gaiden: Exploring Mental Health Through OMORI’s Emotion-Driven Battle System
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Protecting Us, Harming Them: Content Moderation's Mental Health Crisis
Every time you scroll through social media, browse YouTube, or participate in online communities, you're benefiting from the invisible labor of content…
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Governing Tech
The internet may seem like a vast, ungoverned space, but powerful systems of control shape our online experiences. From payment processors to content…
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Matthew S. Burns on AI, Empathy, and the Making of Eliza
Before ChatGPT and the AI boom, Eliza asked what would happen if we automated therapy. In this interview, creator Matthew S. Burns reflects on writing…
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Circuits & Synapses
The self titled article.
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AI in OS: A Predictive Text
T9 In a Rolling Stone article from April of this year, Billie Eilish lamented not learning to type on a keyboard as a kid: "I wasn’t that generation…
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Scrolling Through Shadows: AI's Influence on Our Online Experience
The dead internet theory hypothesizes that sometime around 2016-2018, genuine human activity on the internet dropped dramatically.
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AI Therapists and Programs of Projection
A few years ago, I started hearing of individuals within and outside of therapy turning to AI when they needed someone to talk with.
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