Meta.

Made the slop economy a beat: the spam farms, the zombie platforms, the engagement grifts. Reporter-owned, subscription-funded, and consistently first. Paying humans to cover the machines is itself an anti-slop act.

Follows the money under the hype, with footnotes. The calm counterweight to boosters and doomers alike, and proof that one careful person with sources beats a content farm.

A search engine biased toward the small, text-heavy, non-commercial web. Where you go to remember what the internet reads like when nobody is optimizing it at you.

A self-attested pledge, not proof: anyone can paste the badge. Then again, pledges are how norms start, and this one at least asks you to mean it in public.

The angriest man in AI criticism, and often the earliest right; the rot-economy thesis aged well. Bring salt: the rage is the engine and sometimes the steering.