How and why we’re turning our world into a dystopian cyberpunk novel. www.computerworld.com/article/4089...

Word of the moment: "trustwashing" www.techpolicy.press/ai-trustwash...

Google is helping Donald Trump unconstitutionally hunt down immigrants, lying about ICE being a "vulnerable group" and blocking apps that helped people share ICE sightings. www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Join the Superintelligent community by subscribing to our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKba...

Thank you, Captain Obvious! www.eweek.com/news/perplex...

Home-made macaroni for lunch in Sicily. gastronomad.net/sicily

Excellent read for this moment…

The power of low-tech in a high-tech world. (You should always keep up with the newest technology. But never forget how to use older technologies when they help you more.) www.computerworld.com/article/4086...

The olive oil obsessed dog belongs to a man whose family owns a great olive oil company in Sicily. Lucky dog. (I took this picture last week during the Gastronomad Experience.) gastronomad.net/sicily

Service of the moment: "pay to troll" www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

HEADLINE: "Apple is planning to use a custom version of Google Gemini for Apple Intelligence" ALT HEADLINE: "Apple is wishing they bought DeepMind before Google did" www.theverge.com/news/814654/...

Are we in an AI bubble? Why do robots need creepy human faces to fold laundry? How do we stay happy and fulfilled amid fast-moving tech? Join the discussion on this week’s episode of the Superintelligent Podcast with me and @mikeelgan.bsky.social! www.superintelligentpodcast.com/p/robots-don...

Some brides just don't see the obvious red flags. www.odditycentral.com/news/tech-en...

Word of the moment: "regret" www.computerworld.com/article/4084...

Phrase of the moment: "a stifling grip on the fundamentals of commerce" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

The latest episode of the Superintelligent podcast just landed! "Robots Don’t Need A Face To Fold Laundry" www.superintelligentpodcast.com/p/robots-don...

Sentence of the moment: www.techdirt.com/2025/11/03/6...

Wine tasting on Sicily's Etna volcano. gastronomad.net/sicily

The future we were promised: jetpacks for everybody The future we're getting: twerking robots futurism.com/robots-and-m...

Number of the moment: 572 (That's the number of neighborhoods in L.A., according to Google.) www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

HEADLINE: "Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites" ALT HEADLINE: "Elon Musk Is Such a Megalomaniacal Narcissist That He Feels Entitled to Experiment On the Entire Human Race" futurism.com/future-socie...

The fall colors of Sicily (in the Etna volcano wine country) gastronomad.net/sicily

OMG the olives in Sicily! gastronomad.net/sicily

These fall colors in the Etna wine country are brought to you by the Sicily Gastronomad Experience (now in progress). gastronomad.net/sicily

The temptation to use videos of remotely controlled robots that appear autonomous (where you can’t see the person controlling them) to raise investment money, inspire stock purchases and outright sell robot products, appears to be too strong to resist. www.computerworld.com/article/4082...

Claim of the moment: "If you’re any good at engineering, you’re probably not funny." techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/c...

AI workers are speaking up 🤖 @leolaporte.me, @paris.nyc & @mikeelgan.bsky.social talk about Anil Dash's post and the tension inside the industry. 🎧 Download here: buff.ly/nilYDtO

This is spot-on: "While the world rushes to AI explain complicated subjects simply, and partly do our thinking for us, AI is failing to give us what we think we’re getting." - thanks, @mikeelgan.bsky.social

Haha! Plagiarism Today reviews Grokpedia. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/10/29/g...

Clueless AI can’t summarize machinesociety.ai/p/clueless-a...

This is why everyone hates the so-called mainstream media. This bullshit article talks about all of John Dickerson's irrelevant jobs on obsolete TV news, and barely mentions the only media that matters: His podcast. So dishonest and clueless. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Do you call this pastry a scone (like throne), or scon (like gone)? The debate rages on the latest episode of Superintelligent with me and @mikeelgan.bsky.social - plus some tech, Italian mobsters, and NBA players. It’s a good one! www.superintelligentpodcast.com/p/this-is-no...

Phrase of the moment: "sinister squalor" www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Trump hasn't killed the Voice of America yet. Putin must feel so betrayed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

The loudest opinions on AI are extreme: It will either usher in a utopian paradise or destroy humanity. AGI will arrive tomorrow or in 100 years. But the only thing we can be sure of about these extreme views is that they're wrong. www.computerworld.com/article/4078...

Word of the moment: "esquivalience" futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is a wild story

Superintelligent: 'This Is Not Your Mom’s Mafia' www.superintelligentpodcast.com/p/this-is-no...

Where I’m at: wine tasting in southern Sicily.

Nice to hear someone else say this (besides me). www.interviewquery.com/p/ai-layoffs...

My Office Today: some random cafe in Modica, Sicily www.reddit.com/r/MyOfficeTo...

HEADLINE: "Seattle mayor says Microsoft and Amazon have a ‘moral obligation’ to give back to the city" ALT HEADLINE: Mayor with a 'moral obligation' to propose new taxes to the City Council, falsely believes the city is a charity rather than a legal authority. www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle...

Check out the latest episode of Intelligent Machines with hosts @leolaporte.me and @paris.nyc and me, guest-host Mike Elgan. In this episode, we push the conversation to the edge: Could the future of AI be sitting right on your desk? elgan.com/intelligent-...

Is AI moving away from cloud computing? @leolaporte.me, @paris.nyc, and @mikeelgan.bsky.social explore Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's ZGX Nano, discussing how edge AI could revolutionize privacy and permanently reduce costs. 🎧 Download here:

Catalonian snacks: pan con tomate, jamon Iberico, cheese, sausages, (egg and potato) tortilla and more during a Gastronomad Experience biodynamic-wine tasting in the Penedes wine country. gastronomad.net/barcelona

Scone, jam and clotted cream in the Cotswolds. I'm so confused as to why scones in the US are these weird triangle things and never served with jam and clotted cream. This is so fricken good. gastronomad.net/about

Facebook has recently changed its algorithm to favor even more polarization, with conservatives and liberals engaging more with news and content from lower-quality, ideologically extreme sources. Because some men just want to watch the world burn. epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

How clueless do you have to be about Trump to believe he would reciprocate loyalty? www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/e...

New Podcast Episode: Intelligent Machines: None Pizza Left Beef AI On the Edge with @leolaporte.me, @paris.nyc, @mikeelgan.bsky.social, Joey de Villa, Andrew Hawthorn

Here’s a question: Is it feasible or advisable to write about AI and publish through a publishing company? Isn’t the subject moving too fast to wait that long? In other words, is self-publishing a necessity for writing about AI?