Ian Bogost

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Ian Bogost

The wind was whipping up, but I ignored it. I was at my house in St. Louis, on the phone with the rabbi who would officiate my mother’s funeral, a thousand miles away. We spoke about her life, her family, the service, and other matters both material and spiritual. Mom had been sick for well over a year, but she started declining rapidly in December. Late last month, she was admitted to hospice.

1 month ago | rsn.org | Ian Bogost |Charlie Warzel

ALSO SEE: Russia Launches Nearly 150 Drones Against Ukraine as Trump Says He Doubts Putin's Desire for PeaceThe Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next. If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal government—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from citizens.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Ian Bogost |Charlie Warzel

If you have tips about DOGE and its data collection, you can contact Ian and Charlie on Signal at @ibogost.47 and @cwarzel.92. If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal government—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from citizens.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Ian Bogost |Charlie Warzel

NowBack during the campaign, Trump pretended his “Dictator on Day 1” talk was just a joke. One hundred days in, it’s clear he was not joking. WASHINGTON — However scared you might be for our democracy, you are not scared enough. The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, …

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Ian Bogost

If your virtual kart-racing life was missing something, you’re in luck. Nintendo, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, announced its new Mario Kart appliance today. The Switch 2, which can be used handheld or connected to a television, allows players to race go-karts piloted by characters from the company’s entertainment franchises: Mario, Yoshi, Princess Peach. The karting games that ran on previous appliances allowed racers to compete on only a series of discrete tracks.