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anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
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The San Francisco Standard
17 days ago
AI is moving faster than anyone can keep up with — including the people building it. So we're bringing in reinforcements. On April 9, join us for a live taping of “Pacific Standard Time," with journalist
@jasmine.bsky.social
to make sense of the chaos. Enter to win tickets:
bit.ly/3QfhdYU
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ktb
28 days ago
New, from me.
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Kill Chain
On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children
https://open.substack.com/pub/artificialbureaucracy/p/kill-chain?r=1786m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Damon Beres
about 1 month ago
"Sam Altman has predicted that large language models will soon be capable of 'fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics" — but, "might be able to extrude only something equivalent to 'a real poet’s okay poem'"
@jasmine.bsky.social
on what sets writing apart
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The Human Skill That Eludes AI
Why can’t language models write well?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/ai-creative-writing/686418/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGb11x07uLMkrNAorpAm82a8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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the real AI alignment problem is Pete Hegseth. here’s my explainer & take on Anthropic vs. the Pentagon —
jasmi.news/p/ai-pentagon
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AI vs. the Pentagon
the real alignment problem is Pete Hegseth
https://jasmi.news/p/ai-pentagon
about 2 months ago
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Charlie Warzel
about 2 months ago
Today’s pod is with one of my favorite writers covering the culture of technology in the Bay Area.
@jasmine.bsky.social
came on to describe the AI boom/hype from ground level in SF and we get deep into what the people building these tools actually believe
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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What Do the People Building AI Believe?
Inside San Francisco’s AI subculture
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/02/what-do-the-people-building-ai-believe/686173/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAdNoOm8swbOPv6_sWYwOuUU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Chris Kuang
about 2 months ago
incredibly fun lede by
@jasmine.bsky.social
about the DCA perimeter rule (a favorite topic of mine) and the rest of her observations about SF/DC divide and similarities
jasmi.news/p/ai-populis...
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🌻 my week with the AI populists
a Washington DC scene report
https://jasmi.news/p/ai-populism?r=5a6ovs&triedRedirect=true#footnote-2-187596744
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Johannes Kleske
3 months ago
If you're intrigued by Claude Code but also feel overwhelmed, I can recommend this more personal account of trying it out by Jasmine Sun:
jasmi.news/p/claude-co...
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🌻 claude code psychosis
are your problems software-shaped?
https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code
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Alex Shultz
3 months ago
A self-identified “engineer” went viral on Reddit (& on social media) w/damning allegations about one of the food delivery apps. Then they circulated a legit-looking “internal document” to journalists, including me. The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story
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An AI-Generated Reddit Post Fooled the Internet. It Was Only Half of an Elaborate Scam.
I traded Signal messages with someone purporting to have serious dirt on Uber. They used AI to make the whole thing up.
https://open.substack.com/pub/hardresetmedia/p/an-ai-generated-reddit-post-fooled?r=7myb9&utm_medium=ios
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Eric Topol
3 months ago
The Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...
Today
@nytimes.com
@jasmine.bsky.social
goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular
t.co/lQXUBHNEaG
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Paul Abramson MD
4 months ago
I’m quoted in today’s
@nytimes.com
on the "Chinese peptides" trend in SF. She asked about the "founder mindset" applied to biology. My take: "The entrepreneurial parallel isn't funding a scrappy start-up. It's wiring money to an unregistered offshore entity based on a pitch deck."
buff.ly/n5nEob
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Hard Reset
4 months ago
Reporting live from the legendary Bimbo’s in SF,
@elirosenberg.bsky.social
on the Substack AI debate party with
@jasmine.bsky.social
,
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
and others, where the vibe was … surprisingly congenial?
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/live-debat...
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Live debates are in, but winning them is another story
At a buzzy Substack party in San Francisco, four debates on A.I. showed that team human has plenty of fight in it, even amid the boom. And some goodwill on its side, to boot.
https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/live-debates-are-in-but-winning-them
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Henry Farrell
6 months ago
jasmi.news/p/ai-friends...
This is very good, and close in some ways to the Fourcade and
@kjhealy.co
account of social media, under which it's co-constituted by users rather than being forced on them.
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AI friends too cheap to meter
“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”
https://jasmi.news/p/ai-friends?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6027&post_id=177248068&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=byas&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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6 months ago
"If the world is going to split into the techno kings and the techno peasants, I better prove that I'm gonna stay on top" -
@jasmine.bsky.social
describing veiled AI anxiety in San Francisco for The Indicator
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Gazetteer SF
6 months ago
Everywhere you look these days in San Francisco, there's a new zine, magazine, literary journal, or newspaper. At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19,
@cydhayes.bsky.social
will sit down with
@jasmine.bsky.social
,
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
, and
@ovillalon.bsky.social
to discuss SF's print boom.
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The Print Party: The publication as an object for community
Announcing our first panel for Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19
https://sf.gazetteer.co/the-print-party-the-publication-as-an-object-for-community
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A rare first-person account of experiencing AI-induced psychosis, from a young tech founder who "should have known better"
joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis
6 months ago
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Kyle Chayka
6 months ago
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are racing to grab a chunk of AI capital and equity as it races upward. Meanwhile the rest of us face a dilemma: "Are you going to be the piggy or be the one making the slop?"
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Steve Randy Waldman
7 months ago
“Neo-hustle-culture is a modern twist on Weber’s Protestant ethic: if the world is soon to be divided into the blessed and the damned, the techno-kings and the techno-peasants, anxious technologists should work as hard as they can to prove they deserve to end up on the right side of that divide.”
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Mike Shaw
7 months ago
The latest episode of
@kaiserkuo.bsky.social
's essential Sinica podcast features
@jasmine.bsky.social
who is a great China tech watcher. This was one of the topics that they discussed and I very much enjoyed it. It's totally worth your valuable time.
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Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror
This week on Sinica, co-host Tianyu Fang makes his debut on the show to join me in interviewing his Stanford classmate and talented writer Jasmine Sun, who studies the anthropology of disruption.
https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/jasmine-sun-on-silicon-valley-through
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Max Read
7 months ago
really good exploration of silicon valley's collective nervous breakdown as its anxieties about deskilling, diminishing returns, etc manifest themselves in self-flattering memes. total sweaty desperation. look at my leading industry dawg we're all going to die
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are you high-agency or an NPC?
AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley
https://jasmi.news/p/dictionary
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cb ⿻
9 months ago
@jasmine.bsky.social
excellent choice
youtu.be/6TNg34K85-8?...
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How Hippies Became Hackers (Burning Man, Accelerationism, Stewart Brand) ft. Fred Turner
YouTube video by Jasmine Sun
https://youtu.be/6TNg34K85-8?si=gaOjwTg5bkb-Yuga
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New_ Public
9 months ago
Congrats to
@jasmine.bsky.social
and all our friends at Reboot for 5 years of bold, optimistic thinking! We applaud this renewed manifesto, centering human agency in how technology is created and developed. Here’s to 5 more!
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By And For Technologists
Reboot's new mission for 2025 and beyond
https://joinreboot.org/p/by-and-for-technologists
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Xander Cesari
9 months ago
Stumbled into
@jasmine.bsky.social
's Kernel vol 5 launch party for
joinreboot.org
last night and boy oh boy was it a needle trip moment. Just when I was losing hope in finding the thread of moral imperative in the Bay Area tech scene! On to Open Sauce conf this weekend.
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Coté
10 months ago
Some positive, growth oriented thinking about AI in creative endeavors.
jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...
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Stuart Gray
10 months ago
Worth a read. A great list of short insights, thoughts, and observations on GenAI, creativity, and implications…
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Paul M. Cray
10 months ago
From
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jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...
: 15. AI hallucinates, humans misremember. Yet neuroscience suggests that memory and imagination are one and the same. Per Demis Hassabis’s PhD thesis: amnesiacs make shoddy novelists."
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notes on AI & writing
the models read because they cannot live
https://jasmi.news/p/32-notes-on-ai-and-writing?utm_source=substack&publication_id=6027&post_id=166822709&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=qmrr&triedRedirect=true"15
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I wanted to better understand (and complicate!) the “tech right,” so I interviewed an anonymous startup founder who supported Trump in 2024. He regrets it now. I found our conversation fascinating 🧵
jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule
11 months ago
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Jesse Walker
11 months ago
"Most of us have designed our lives around using the objects and tools that other people made. It takes a change of mindset to go from 'I wish I had an app for that' to 'Why not build it myself?'"
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Essay | Your Next Favorite App? The One You Make Yourself.
‘Vibe-coding’ with new AI tools makes it possible for just about anyone to create personalized apps—no programming required.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/your-next-favorite-app-the-one-you-make-yourself-a6a84f5f
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chatgpt 4o's sycophancy & genocide grok were problems of human/social misalignment — not model misalignment. unfortunately companies are much more incentivized to solve the latter than the former new essay on the hard problem of aligning AI:
jasmi.news/p/alignment
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we have never been aligned
learning from 4o and white genocide Grok
https://jasmi.news/p/alignment
11 months ago
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very excited to be collaborating with Kevin on this book project!
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12 months ago
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kottke.org
about 1 year ago
“AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.”
[jasmi.news]
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🌻 agi (disambiguation)
will we know it when we see it?
https://jasmi.news/p/agi
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Ben Recht
about 1 year ago
What if instead of The Terminator and The Matrix, we used Severance and South Park to think about AI?
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Maybe just believing in AGI makes AGI exist.
Kill the wise one!
https://www.argmin.net/p/maybe-just-believing-in-agi-makes
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José Marichal
about 1 year ago
Great stuff from
@jasmine.bsky.social
on the return to an "oral-first" culture...
joinreboot.org/p/talk-is-ch...
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Talk Is Cheap
On LLMs and oral culture
https://joinreboot.org/p/talk-is-cheap
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new podcast — WHAT DOGE GETS WRONG ft.
@audreyt.org
Audrey is the anti-Elon: a prodigy hacker who joined the Taiwan government to improve efficiency she shows why *social intelligence* is needed to successfully leverage frontier tech transcript & video here:
jasmi.news/p/doing-doge...
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doing DOGE right ft. audrey tang
speed vs. participation, AI facilitators, depolarizing Taiwan
https://jasmi.news/p/doing-doge-right-ft-audrey-tang
about 1 year ago
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Mark Harrison
about 1 year ago
A heartfelt essay by
@jasmine.bsky.social
wsun about the fates of Taiwanese and American democracy. On the metaphor of Taipei's famous garbage collection, before 1994, it was just thrown onto huge gross piles on street corners. Doing it better was a civic choice.
jasmi.news/p/taiwan-2025
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garbage in, garbage out
notes on Taiwan, the US, and civic culture
https://jasmi.news/p/taiwan-2025
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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳
about 1 year ago
Democracy isn’t something you have, it's something you practice — daily. 🔄
@jasmine.bsky.social
beautifully captures Taiwan’s civic heartbeat and why active participation matters now more than ever. 🌻
jasmi.news/p/taiwan-2025
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garbage in, garbage out
notes on Taiwan, the US, and civic culture
https://jasmi.news/p/taiwan-2025
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The San Francisco Standard
about 1 year ago
Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush
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Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush
They used to want jobs at Meta. Now Silicon Valley kids want to work on defense intelligence for the government.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
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My Stanford years were defined by heated protests against tech work for ICE and the US military 5 years later, defense-tech is cool again, and I returned to campus to find out why. New article for
@sfstandard.com
:
sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/s...
about 1 year ago
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Chris Ellis
about 1 year ago
Everything is vibes now? Great convo with Head of Design at Substack +
@jasmine.bsky.social
Bonus: No reading required
open.spotify.com/episode/3W65...
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🌻 infinite cornucopia (ft. mills baker)
discourse brunch | jasmi.news · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3W65ZCHtPGGbZdPjgjlyjm?si=WdC-KHNkTbyR4efJnGxafw
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jay
about 1 year ago
really loved editing this essay from eileen ahn in reboot on the limits of biological data collection, phenomenology, and (literally) swapping spit
joinreboot.org/p/my-biologi...
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we’ll need a new personal ethic for living alongside AI
open.substack.com/pub/jasmine/...
about 1 year ago
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jay
about 1 year ago
in search of: manifestos, explorations, and hot takes pitches for kernel magazine issue 5 are now open! this issue's theme is RULES🎛️ how we make them & how they make us; how they restrict & how they generate; how they arrive from above & below more info here:
joinreboot.org/p/kernel-5-p...
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Business Insider
about 1 year ago
Tech companies like OpenAI are in the grip of a new Red Scare — and talented immigrants are getting caught in the crossfire.
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America's fear of China goes way beyond TikTok
Tech companies like OpenAI are in the grip of a new Red Scare — and talented immigrants are getting caught in the crossfire.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-spies-silicon-valley-tech-companies-freaking-out-espionage-employees-2025-1?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=business-automated
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The obsession with Chinese spies is an own-goal for AI. Chinese scientists, workers, and founders *want* to work in Silicon Valley, but an atmosphere of hostility & suspicion is pushing them out. New from me for
@businessinsider.com
(1/7)
www.businessinsider.com/chinese-spie...
about 1 year ago
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pitches are open for Kernel Magazine Issue 5: RULES we want critical & creative meditations on your most esoteric regulations, logics, constraints 👷 📐 pitches and submissions are due february 1. we pay!
joinreboot.org/p/kernel-5-p...
about 1 year ago
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Richard Brody continues generational run of being wrong about every movie ever made
over 1 year ago
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Shannon Mattern
over 1 year ago
Kernel — a young critical technology magazine I admire! — is seeking nonfiction and creative proposals for its fifth issue on RULES
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🎛️ Kernel 5 Pitches Now Open!
Kernel Rules!
https://joinreboot.org/p/kernel-5-pitches?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=37465&post_id=154937055&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=s9ot&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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