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I Fed America's Most Beloved Folk Songs Into an AI Sensitivity Filter and Now I Require Therapy

In the spirit of journalistic sacrifice, I subjected classic American folk music to the most aggressive AI sensitivity settings available and presented the results to a mock HR department for approval. The songs survived. My faith in language did not.

Mar 13, 2026

Rise, Fall, and Rise Again: The Gloriously Messy History of Digg

Once the undisputed king of social news, Digg was the internet's town square before the internet really knew what a town square was. Then it imploded spectacularly, lost a war to Reddit it didn't even realize it was fighting, and spent the better part of a decade trying to remember what made it great in the first place.

Mar 12, 2026