DD401 / Your call is important to us
Issue 401: Your call is important to us – Read the full issue in the archive.
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DD400 / Hitting ‘send’ for the 579th time
Issue 400: Hitting ‘send’ for the 579th time – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD399 / Not a machine: on fragility and self-worth
Issue 399: Not a machine: on fragility and self-worth – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD398 / Cold turkey on the outrage machine
Issue 398: Cold turkey on the outrage machine – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD397 / Last drinks at the AI casino
Issue 397: Last drinks at the AI casino – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD396 / On being properly unwell
Issue 396: On being properly unwell – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD395 / Everything bleeds into everything
Issue 395: Everything bleeds into everything – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD394 / The friendship recession
Issue 394: The friendship recession – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD393 / The view from the apocalypse
Issue 393: The view from the apocalypse – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD392 / Rest with a receipt
Issue 392: Rest with a receipt – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD391 / The disappearing right to rest
Issue 391: The disappearing right to rest – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD390 / Your neatly labelled mind
Issue 390: Your neatly labelled mind – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD389 / Yours sincerely, prompt #41
Issue 389: Yours sincerely, prompt #41 – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD388 / Permission to play
Issue 388: Permission to play – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD387 / Goodness in the flames
Issue 387: Goodness in the flames – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD386 / Name your middle-class precarity
Issue 386: Name your middle-class precarity – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD385 / The dissonance is expanding
Issue 385: The dissonance is expanding – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD384 / So anyway, the rich won
Issue 384: So anyway, the rich won – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD383 / Why we defend what’s failing us
Issue 383: Why we defend what’s failing us – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD382 / The casino in your pocket
Issue 382: The casino in your pocket – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD381 / Maximising having, minimising living
Issue 381: Maximising having, minimising living – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD380 / Self-optimising into oblivion
Issue 380: Self-optimising into oblivion – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD379 / Chronically, get well soon
Issue 379: Chronically, get well soon – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD378 / The myth of the dying reader
Issue 378: The myth of the dying reader – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD377 / First, fast, forgotten: the media lifecycle
Issue 377: First, fast, forgotten: the media lifecycle – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD376 / Coding: from craft to commodity
Issue 376: Coding: from craft to commodity – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD375 / American acceptionalism
Issue 375: American acceptionalism – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD374 / AI and the propaganda of inevitability
Issue 374: AI and the propaganda of inevitability – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD373 / Offloading risk, distributing fear
Issue 373: Offloading risk, distributing fear – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD372 / Friction-maxxing through 2026?
Issue 372: Friction-maxxing through 2026? – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD371 / What our work weighs
Issue 371: What our work weighs – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD370 / New(ish) look, same insanity
Issue 370: New(ish) look, same insanity – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD369 / How car culture drives us apart
Issue 369: How car culture drives us apart – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD368 / When feeds replaced forests
Issue 368: When feeds replaced forests – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD367 / From anti-system to part of the system
Issue 367: From anti-system to part of the system – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD366 / How to work beside AI instead of under it
Issue 366: How to work beside AI instead of under it – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD365 / Breaking up with the nuclear family
Issue 365: Breaking up with the nuclear family – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD364 / When independence meets reality
Issue 364: When independence meets reality – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD363 / What do we owe young men?
Issue 363: What do we owe young men? – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD362 / Profit in the wound
Issue 362: Profit in the wound – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD361 / All we watch are millionaires
Issue 361: All we watch are millionaires – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD360 / Being governed by Reply Guys
Issue 360: Being governed by Reply Guys – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD359 / The white logic of minimalism
Issue 359: The white logic of minimalism – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD358 / The feed no longer surprises but sedates
Issue 358: The feed no longer surprises but sedates – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD357 / Refunded: no power to you!
Issue 357: Refunded: no power to you! – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD356 / Like a horse stung by a wasp
Issue 356: Like a horse stung by a wasp – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD355 / Big Tech’s subsidised empire-building
Issue 355: Big Tech’s subsidised empire-building – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD354 / Design’s reckoning: who really pays?
Issue 354: Design’s reckoning: who really pays? – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD353 / Between less wrong and almost right
Issue 353: Between less wrong and almost right – Read the full issue in the archive.
DD352 / The case for staying put
Issue 352: The case for staying put – Read the full issue in the archive.