Compute!

Nicolle Weeks founded Compute! in May 2026. She writes, edits, art-directs, and ships the magazine. She lives in Toronto with her family. By day she is Director of Communications and AI at Manulife; Compute! is her independent publication, separate from her employer, and the views expressed in it are her own.

Every quote is real.

Every direct quotation in Compute! is taken from a public source — a press release, an SEC filing, a podcast, an X post, a published interview, a regulatory transcript. We do not invent quotes for effect. Where a speaker is paraphrased rather than quoted, the paraphrase is marked. Sources are linked or named in The Receipts at the back of every issue.

Footnotes throughout. Disclaimers nowhere.

Where a claim is hedged or unverified, we footnote it and flag the uncertainty in the body. Where we extrapolate or estimate, we say so — usually in the footnote, occasionally in the body. The magazine is satirical in voice but factual in substance: jokes are made about real people doing real things, sourced.

Fortnightly. On time.

Compute! publishes every other week, Toronto time. The web edition and the email edition ship together. The cadence is a commitment to the reader: a satirical magazine that misses a fortnight stops being satirical and starts being an essay collection, and we are not, on present evidence, an essay collection.

Compute! targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance. Every image on the site carries descriptive alt text. The pull-out poster (The Web) includes a written long-description of every relationship line for screen-reader users. Every quote in Pseuds Corner names its speaker, date, and source. Every footnote is keyboard-reachable.

Last reviewed: 10 June 2026. Conformance target: WCAG 2.2 AA.

We get things wrong. When we do, we correct the record in the next issue, in a standing column called The Corrections, and we annotate the original web version with a dated correction note rather than silently editing the text. We do not memory-hole.

Compute! uses privacy-respecting, aggregate analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics) to count readers and see which stories travel, and aggregate click counts on links in the fortnightly email to understand which stories work. We do not build individual reader profiles, we do not retarget, and we do not sell or share reader data with anyone. Subscriber email addresses are stored on Buttondown and used solely to send the magazine.

The editor also writes Human+AI — a separate Substack publication for working professionals navigating AI at work, especially in financial services and HR/L&D. Compute! and Human+AI are independently edited; if you came here from there, welcome, and don't worry if the voice is different.