IM 867: The Ketchup Effect - The Lines Are Too Damn Long

About this episode

Ian Bogost discusses the joys of technology and how AI can reconnect us with the real world.

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens. CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services…

People in this episode

Guest: Ian Bogost

Topics covered

• technology
• AI
• game design
• real life
• sensory pleasures
• constraints
• compute wars

Keywords

• technology
• AI
• frictionlessness
• sensory pleasures
• real life
• game design
• Anthropic
• Mozilla
• Microsoft
• compute wars

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NSA, Anthropic, Mozilla, Microsoft, Google Cloud, TSMC, SpaceX, Cursor, Dairy Queen

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