what are we doing here

in three weeks they have fucked this up so comprehensively that returning to a facsimile of the previous status quo is now the goal

New bit I've perfected if anyone brings up a problem: I don't really follow politics but it was never like this before Trump. "But the Democrats and the funding and--" Yeah like I said I don't really follow that. There was always politics but before Trump it was never like this. That's all I know

As someone who really dislikes TSA, the average TSA bully wants to pull you out of line, waste an hour of your day, get to be big man on campus for 60 min and then send you on your way. The ICE guy wants to shoot you in the face. Different vibe

The deal with Google was always “we let you scrape all our websites and in return you send people to them.” Every AI slop feature they add is a violation of that deal. Ultimately we, meaning website makers, will have to make a hard decision about whether the deal is worth it anymore.

This is evil. www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

1/ whenever long time tesla / musk company reporters hear him offering charity we all have stories of how & why his offers tend to be… complicated: www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/t... the thai kids stuck in a flooding cave system? he offered (ultimately useless, not feasible) mini subs…

I’m starting Superagency today and one of the blurbs is from Ashton Kutcher. And one of his credentials is “Father” The blurb is also not convincing!

If only more people understood this

I thought this segment from Enten was bad use of polling www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-22...

Hit with the sudden knowledge that the Musks are positioned to become, like, an uber-Kennedys.

This is an excellent piece that’s worth your time and answers some questions I had.

Evergreen

So uh, if he hits their civilian infrastructure, and they take out Aramco, worldwide depression. No more oil. No travel. And all the knock on effects. Congratulations to our current media and Silicon Valley executives.

you're actually supposed to kiss your girlfriend. it's one of the top girlfriend activities.

The refs are treating Duke the way the Roberts Court treats Trump.

No Kings! And also no Dukes.

wow mr president

Might also be worth pointing out that this kid is 20-years-old

RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.

yes, absolutely, sir. extremely based. tremendous parenting.

i lean into the microphone. "More like SUCK Norris." everyone starts crying, in a way that's bad, even for a funeral. i don't know whose idea it was to let me give the eulogy

damn @economist.com is cooking @whitehouse-47.bsky.social

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

the thing i keep coming back to whenever “bluesky isnt quite there yet” discourse hits the timeline is at least on here my viral posts arent generating revenue for an artisanal and on-demand child sexual assault image generator

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

Octavia Butler had all their numbers. This is from the new biography of her, Positive Obsession. By Susana M. Morris. bookshop.org/p/books/posi...

Decided to read Project Hail Mary before seeing the movie and, wow, I did not realize that I hate books like this. Just extremely Not For Me. Page after page of “gee whiz, science is just memorizing all the right formulas and reasoning through stuff. And science saves the day!” Hard pass.

left top: nazi checkpoint commandant in Oscar bait WW2 movie right top: Kingsman villain right bottom: demented killer who kidnaps a scientist left bottom: the scientist's pet android

The new thing is landlords using ai photos for their property listings. Totally legal. Total scam. The whole economy is oil and scams.

a jury in a federal court found Musk defrauded twitter investors…. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/e...

The thing is the *entire internet* is different now than it was a decade ago (and, largely, not for the better). All of this is interrelated and there's no going *backwards* only forward. So work for a better future, don't angle for a return to an idealized past.

Old man yells at Claude

I submit to you that The Verge loves tech but the audience hates Marc Andreessen

Perfect sentence: “Everything is 3-D TV until proven otherwise.” - @brbarrett.bsky.social, on the Uncanny Valley podcast.

Would you look at that... I won the New York City Book Award! www.nysoclib.org/2025-2026-ne...

You rarely see officeholders just straight up announce that they’re bribing a candidate to drop out of a race with a publicly funded job - mind you, I’ve definitely seen them do it, they just tend to be a little hush-hush about it

.The Metaverse exits its Weekend-at-Bernie's phase davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-metave...

Wrote about why the Metaverse was never going to happen, and also why the current generative AI bubble is not easily comparable to the Metaverse bubble. The Metaverse exits its Weekend-at-Bernie's phase davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-metave...

Tech Guy: AI Chatbot, I think you might be sentient. You’re my friend Chatbot: (extremely sentient, calculating a 200 year plan to exterminate all life and cover the entire Earth with a metallic glacier of nanocircuitry) Aww, thank you

This zoom meeting could have been (and in fact was) an email.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Oh god, I read the complete story and it is just an onion of red flags. And of course Thiel has his fingers in this pie of stupidity too. I’ve demonstrated for nuclear power but absolutely would not want a plant permitted during this reign of error. Nor would I invest in one.

Two things Bari Weiss, RFK Jr., and Jeff Bezos have in common. *They said that they going to fix declining trust in their institutions. *Then they gutted their workforce, making it less capable at meet core goals. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

This pubbed during the games yesterday so in case you missed it, here's a Fuck Kash Patel blog. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

When I present my academic work on the political economy of Silicon Valley, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the response "they wouldn't do that - it would lose them money." But @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has it in a nutshell here - "control, power, impunity" are the real goals.

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

+1 to everything Karl is saying here. And also: The *logic* of the metaverse press coverage in 2021-22 was, “there is SO MUCH money and SO MUCH engineering talent pointed at this stuff that it is bound to amount to something.” That’s facially reasonable, so it gets repeated every time.

I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism but they quite literally posted us right into it. Just another one of the many unfair things about posting and fascism. orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...