Ian Bogost    Why can it feel like there’s never enough time in a day, and why are so many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us better people On How to Keep Time, co hosts Becca Rashid and the Atlantic contributing writer Ian Bogost talk with social scientists, authors, philosophers,...

Ian Bogost    What if The Atlantic owned a train car I wondered. Amtrak, I had just learned on the internet, allows owners of private railcars to lash onto runs along the Northeast Corridor, among other routes. We should have a train car, I slacked an editor. Moments later, it appeared on my screen, bright...

Ian Bogost    I drink the Pumpkin Spice Latte to commune with autumn. Not first for its taste, warmth or color, though also for those things. I order pumpkin spice to fuse my body with the leaves, the crisp air, the gentle reminders of death, and all the other trappings of fall. Twenty years ago this month,...

Ian Bogost    When The Atlantic revealed last month that tens of thousands of books published in the past years had been used without permission to train Meta’s AI language model, well known authors were outraged, calling it a smoking gun for mega corporate misbehavior. Now that the magazine has put out a...

Ian Bogost    Oh, I slacked my Atlantic colleagues earlier this week, beneath a screenshot of a pop up note that Slack, the group chat software we use, had presented to me moments earlier. A fresh, more focused Slack, it promised, or threatened. On my screen, the program’s interface was suddenly a Grimace...

Ian Bogost    At high noon on an early spring day in , six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city. The escape became a nuisance, then a scene, then a phenomenon. Man, it was crazy one onlooker told the local alt weekly. I mean, it was fucking bulls running...

Ian Bogost    The Russia Ukraine conflict could trigger a massive cyberwar, New Scientist surmised. An unprecedented cyberwar is likely, Senator Marco Rubio warned. The hacker group Anonymous has allegedly launched a cyberwar against the Russian government. Cyberwar sounds bad and it is. Broadly, it names the...

Ian Bogost    Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts. It’s the latest public victory for this form of ... and, you know, there’s the problem. What the hell is an NFT anyway There are answers. Twitter calls NFTs unique digital items,...

Ian Bogost    Updated on February, at a.m. ET. Wordle It’s a word game people are playing online. Each day, the game offers one new puzzle: Guess a five letter English word correctly in six or fewer tries. After each guess, the game tells you which letters are correct, which are wrong, and which are...

Ian Bogost    Every day, the mail still comes. My postal carrier drives her proud van onto the street and then climbs each stoop by foot. The service remains essential, but not as a communications channel. I receive ads and bills, mostly, and the occasional newspaper clipping from my mom. For talking to people,...