How do we confront the end? In her last “User Error,” Spike’s editor-at-large examines mourning, melancholia, and the merits of staying in bed.

Faced with advances in language’s automation, a contemplation of writing unburdened by posterity and what kinds of freedom might lie beyond consent.

Barely sated, Spike’s editor-at-large gets to the bottom of a TikTok culinary trend.

Touting a punchy new memoir, Scammer, the disgraced influencer got on Zoom to spill the beans about grifting, the gendering of fame-seeking, and the it-girl as a startup.

Two exhibitions in Paris – Nile Koetting’s solo at Parliament Gallery and the group affair “Au delà” at Lafayette Anticipations – conjure data’s limitations in the face of the divine.

Claiming to automate labor, is AI actually creating more busy work for humans?

Hearing murmurs of crypto city-states in the making, a delibration on the complicated politics of exit.

Forget Y2K, the 2010s are back – at least until the nostalgia-fueled trend cycle’s next turn. But is retromania leading us down into a labyrinth of data horror?

Will we still set New Year’s resolutions when our consciousness lives on computers? Ringing in 2023 with transhumanists, goblins, and worms.

Victims or masterminds? This month, Adina Glickstein considers three girls’ grifts – and the startup-ification of subjectivity that might be the real crime after all.

On the final night of Berlin’s beloved TV Bar, Adina Glickstein ponders the uses and abuses of the slippery notion of “evil” with artist, author, and musician Steven Warwick.

From Dimes Square to the Network State, new frontiers are in the making. Adina Glickstein attends Urbit Assembly and considers the politics of tech-augmented exit.

Can film history help make sense of social media’s anxious un-realness? Our tech columnist parallels one app’s claims of authenticity and the cinematic angst of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.

Digitally mutating architectural landmarks into playgrounds of color – see Berlin’s TV tower, Museum Island, and Kulturforum – Rossner’s IRL metaverse pluralization resists the creep of monopoly.

Adina Glickstein writes a travel diary from the end of the end of the world.

In her new column "User Error," Spike Editor-at-Large Adina Glickstein charts the volatility of love and the crypto market, and finds solace in nightcore and Avril Lavigne conspiracy theories.