Van Badham

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

Could courage be contagious? Let’s hope so, because in the absence of powerful regulation, the normalisation of awful blooms

If you’re wondering why you feel emotionally assaulted every time you click a social media app it’s not just due to the content of US news

It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost

The internet, toxic male influencers and ruthless marketeers – not biology – have helped create a cohort of men with few friends

It’s not the sisterhood busting your balls, fellas – it’s the fossil fuel interests making money from the tonnes of synthetic garbage spewed on to the planet every day

Artificial intelligence (AI)

It’s easy to see why some on TikTok are yearning for this kind of nostalgia. But as someone who lived through it, here’s why that’s a bad idea

It’s not so much that rural and metro communities hold different opinions about climate change but rather they are holding completely different conversations

From luxury pet-friendly accommodation to chartering a private plane for your pooch, the indulgences of late-stage capitalism are extreme