Pickpockets

The sorry case of PocketOS: “It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent … to delete [the] company’s entire production database and its backups.” Three different AI checkers identify a teenager’s dream journal from 1987 as 95%, 97.7%, and 100% AI. A fourth says it’s 100% human. What could possibly go wrong? Adults lose skills to AI; children never build them. AI’s threat to entry-level jobs is forcing Gen Z to hustle. The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it. Towards a post-social media studies. A paper arguing that social media is being superseded by “three distinct post-social formations: algorithmically governed broadcasting platforms, semi-private spheres and micro-communities, and AI-mediated communication as a new media form in its own right.” The algorithm at work: The rape that never happened, but sparked a social media frenzy anyway. T-shirts can defeat facial recognition. The myth of the high-tech heist.