Chad Aaron Hall

What is lost in this sea of feel-bad content isn’t just a sense of fun, but of taste . These “non-problematic” shows are not just irritating, they’re bland and forgettable—except in those rare moments when they pass through the looking glass into the world of self-parody, as in the 2018 NBC drama New Amsterdam when a doctor delivers this somber... See more

Like “Slow Food”, Slow Media are not about fast consumption but about choosing the ingredients mindfully and preparing them in a concentrated manner. Slow Media are welcoming and hospitable. They like to share.

I began Play It as It Lays just as I have begun each of my novels, with no notion of “character” or “plot” or even “incident.” I had only two pictures in my mind, more about which later, and a technical intention, which was to write a novel so elliptical and fast that it would be over before you noticed it, a novel so fast that it would scarcely... See more

AI has the ability to completely undermine the trust and utility Google has built with users. They have a strong incentive to control its appearance in search.

To me, the answer seems clear: because corporations have convinced most governments, scientists, journalists, and media outlets that their products are safe.