The Transmission Log
MAY 2026
01 May 2026
Issue 011 · The Daily Cyborg Weekend Edition: Stay Cyborg! Weekend Edition

As AI upends the writing classroom and forces higher education to reckon with its own unreadiness, DeepSeek V4 and Mi...

APRIL 2026
30 Apr 2026
Issue 010 · BOTS WROTE THE WEB, STUDENTS FORGOT TO THINK

Two data points arrive in the same week: 17% of new websites are now fully AI-generated and 67% of students believe A...

29 Apr 2026
Issue 009 · THE QUIET REBELLION AND THE SADDLE

Eighty percent of white-collar workers refuse top-down AI mandates, Jacobin makes the case that outsourcing thinking ...

28 Apr 2026
Issue 008 · THE OPERATOR AND THE SALT WATER

AI 'therapy' chatbots fail teens, the loneliness epidemic and the attention economy collapse into the same problem, a...

27 Apr 2026
Issue 007 · HUMAN SCIENTISTS STILL WIN, AGENTIC AI IS HERE

The Stanford AI Index confirms human scientists still trounce the best agents on complex research, an essay asks whet...

24 Apr 2026
Issue 006 · The Daily Cyborg Weekend Edition: Stay Cyborg! Weekend Edition

The hidden bill for cheap intelligence keeps arriving — an aging grid, slackening critical thinking, and a quieter en...

23 Apr 2026
Issue 005 · THE PRICE OF A CHEAP MIND

Hidden costs surface as intelligence gets cheap — a $25B environmental bill, voice chatbots tugging on our attention,...

22 Apr 2026
Issue 004 · THE FACTORY FLOOR AND THE FIRST DRAFT

A wheeled humanoid quietly hits real production numbers in Erlangen, Goldman puts a figure on the Gen Z jobs squeeze ...

21 Apr 2026
Issue 003 · Borrowing the Machine's Confidence

Workers using AI are quietly borrowing the machine's confidence at the cost of their own judgment, a Tufts neuro-symb...

20 Apr 2026
Issue 002 · Wires, Wisdom, and the Weight of Too Many Tools

BCIs are speaking for the paralyzed, experts and the public have never been further apart on AI optimism, and it turn...

19 Apr 2026
Issue 001 · News, stories, and resources to guide cyborgs towards an undivided life

This week: brain-computer interfaces hit astonishing new milestones, the UN puts humans at the center of AI governanc...