HeyJaredIan Bogost
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- Sep 17, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
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College Is Coming Apart (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence arrived on campus as a crisis but has since become banal. Students can now do basically all their schoolwork automatically with AI—answering scientific problem sets, writing computer code, and drafting essays. Professors like me have no idea whether we are really teaching or just LARPing for students who are also pretending to occupy their role. Worse, some of us are offloading the drudgery of writing recommendation letters, grant proposals, and even scientific papers to
The Thrill of Wanting AI to Destroy the World (opens the original)
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The sky streaked orange and red as my mother drove us home to Albuquerque through the Tijeras Pass, which separates the Sandia Mountains to the north from the Manzanos to the south. “Look out for mushroom clouds,” my father said to her. “If you see them, turn around.” He did this every time we returned to town from the rugged canyon to the east, but the sunsets always egged him on. According to legend, a part of the Manzanos, whose foothills descend into Kirtland Air Force Base and then Sandia N
The Missing Ingredient of Modern Life (opens the original)
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Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s newsletter on making everyday life vivid. You have, by now, probably come across the notion of maxxing—looks-maxxing, sleep-maxxing, protein-maxxing, potassium-maxxing, sun-maxxing, testosterone-maxxing. Etymologically speaking, maxxing seems to be a descendant of somewhat recent slang—for those of us who remember the late 20th century, “maxin’ and relaxin’ ” and “to the max” both come to mind—but in practice, maxxing is a reductionist worldview c
The Wonder of Everyday Life (opens the original)
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Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s guide to making everyday life vivid again. You’ll receive one edition every Saturday for the next eight weeks. What if your life could be richer and more delightful without your having to change anything you’re currently doing? For most of us, when we think about making our lives better and happier, we think of meaningful work, healthy bodies, and thriving interpersonal relationships. Those goals are important. But they can also take years to achi
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