twitter Russian and Chinese state propaganda "unchecked" on Twitter Rob Beschizza

Old school Indie musician Maggie Rogers sells concert tickets 'like it's 1965,' in-person Rusty Blazenhoff

Games Stop doomscrolling and scroll through Doom Rob Beschizza

bots The Dead-Internet Theory: most content creators and consumers are A.I. bots Mark Frauenfelder

maps Bot posts picks from the Library of Congress's expanded map collection Rob Beschizza

photography This Twitter bot will colorize your black and white photos Mark Frauenfelder

bots Adobe goes ballistic over a tweet linking to a 27-year-old version of Acrobat Reader Mark Frauenfelder

reddit This bot turns Reddit arguments into videos of animated courtroom dramas Mark Frauenfelder

AI Text this number with the name of a musical artist, and an AI responds with lyrics written in that style Thom Dunn

artificial intelligence Someone programmed a bot to order thousands of McSundaes every 30 minutes to find out which machines are broken. Thom Dunn

music NirvanA.I.: This bot wrote a Nirvana song David Pescovitz

bots News plagiarism sites run real stories through thesaurus to avoid detection, to hilarious effect Rob Beschizza

AI A service to help airline passengers get compensated for lost bags, delays, cancellations and overbookings Cory Doctorow

social media Algorithmic anti-semitism and computational propaganda David Pescovitz

computer science A bot has been finding bugs and submitting patches for them, successfully masquerading as a human Cory Doctorow

AI Survey: corporate execs vastly overestimate customers' satisfaction Cory Doctorow

Science A machine learning system trained on scholarly journals could correct Wikipedia's gendered under-representation problem Cory Doctorow

Games Cool HOWTO on creating an AI to play 2048 Andrea James

bots On the psychological value of "griefbots" Clive Thompson

happy mutants DoNotPay bot launches a cheap airline ticket that automates the nearly impossible business of getting refunds when prices fall Cory Doctorow