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The internet still has people. The trouble is finding them

In a 2026 paper in Computer, Hal Berghel proposed what he called a “leaner” Dead Internet Theory — stripped of the paranoia, retaining only the empirical core. His core is hard to argue with. Algorithmic amplification of generative content; the difficulty of distinguishing machine-made writing and images from human ones; the resulting collapse of trust […]

Molly Se-kyung

Send Help on Hulu and Disney+ turns being passed over into a horror premise

Liv Altman

Legends looks like a Netflix crime drama. It is about people using work to vanish

Veronica Loop

Movies & TV

My Dearest Assassin on Netflix: raised by an assassin family, never trained as one

The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek on Netflix is back. The killer is inside the phone

Analysis

On a confisqué les téléphones à l'école. Ce qui s'est passé n'était pas prévu au programme

Mobilförbudet lyfte inte betygen. Men något annat hände i klassrummet

The first generation raised on no-rejection intimacy is starting to fail at work and at love

People are scrolling past perfect images to find proof a human made them

Art

When federal arts funding collapses, fifty curators ask what public engagement still means

The question that animates Curating Engagement — what does it mean to work with communities when the margin for error is narrowing — was already urgent before the Trump administration terminated more than $27 million in previously approved NEA grants and proposed eliminating the agency entirely. By the time the publication arrives, the field has […]