Did I write these words with AI? How would you be able to tell? I delve into this problem in my new @mozilla.org column (in collab with @theonion.com): www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

🎁 Today, I'm hoping to change the world forever with my Secret Santa gift for a guy I vaguely know from a Discord server: directing.attention.to/p/help-me-sa...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

If this is the first article you ever read that ends with 'I Am The Prophet of Doom', you need to get out more

From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: "S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it." directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...

⚠️ Are you concerned about your child's future impact on the world? ✅ Steer them towards becoming a tech billionaire, starting NOW. My latest advice column for @mozilla.org's Nothing Personal, in collab with @theonion.com: www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

Features the work of @pauljholden.com @happytoast.co.uk @nanochess.bsky.social @edent.tel @sil.kryogenix.org @chromakode.com @louisbarclay.bsky.social @jimmeruk.bsky.social @monkeon.co.uk @gingerbeardman.com @bagpuss.org

My new Mozilla column has a simple, urgent call-to-action tucked inside: 👉 Get your grandma on Signal CC @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

Is AI researcher burnout the greatest existential threat to humanity? Our sobering new report suggests the answer is: yes

To stop bad actors developing AGI that could kill us all, we need good actors to develop AGI that could also kill us all Read more: alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/a...

When will the world wake up and realize that you can't make AI safe without first making it as unsafe as possible, to see just how unsafe that is? Please read and share this urgent call to action alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/a...

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

What's the top TikTok of all time?

🚀 It’s finally out: the world’s first anti-deepfake wearable. 2025’s most-anticipated tech launch. It’s simple, it’s elegant, it’s versatile. And best of all: it’s 100% made up. Phew. wearthebox.com

🚨 NEW: The DOJ wants to break up Chrome from Google — the consequences could be catastrophic for the web. 📖 Read our article: Break Google's search monopoly without breaking the web. 👇Link: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g... /1

If you thought adding Jeffrey Goldberg was bad... attention.direct/bin-laden-si...

My latest piece for Attention

Meanwhile on Reddit

This ad for Mark Wahlberg's new prayer app has a very high rate of celebrity dead eyes per second www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_IO...

TIL via @werd.io that governments in France and Germany (through their 18F equivalents) made an #opensource alternative to Notion/an offline Google Docs docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/

Great news from OpenAI Greg's really been needing a helping hand through his darkest hours

Much-deserved piece of trolling techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/b...

Brave move by Zuckerberg and Meta. Standing by their principles.

I designed stickers to help you use your phone less so you don't have to attention.direct/stickers

tip: if you take an x.com url and change it to xcancel.com - leaving everything after the slash intact - you can read threads logged out.

👾 Developing some cutting edge tech over at Attention HQ: An ad that checks you're rich directingattention.substack.com/p/3-the-ad-t...

💥 I've just launched a new tech publication, Attention! Think: The Onion meets Wired Here's the first piece: attention.direct/search-ai Follow me as I build Attention here: directingattention.substack.com

🛠️ Super simple tool to hide Bluesky feed by default: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nudge... 1. Replaces the feed with a small grey button 2. Click the button to show feed whenever you like Prevents unintended doomscrolling

Why don’t we just stick with “tweets”? 1/ It’s as absurd as any of the other suggestions but we’re mostly used to it. 2/ It would piss Elon off.

Which 4 words could wipe out $1tn of revenue? "AI, no ads please" (Or three words, if you're the kind of person who's rude to their AI) Read the full story here, along with a crappy AI illustration:

Absolutely love Toby Mather's contraction of 'enshittification' to 'e14n' here: 12challeng.es/p/a-typology... a16z: software is eating the world e14n: enshittification is eating software

Working on a typology of social media feeds Have you come across something like this, in which case can you point me towards?

Today on 12 Challenges, I'm giving Donald Glover a domain: 12challenges.substack.com/p/giving-glo...

Something I'm interested in is whether AI OSes will kill ad inventory How? Empowering people to access only the content they want, not the ads It's an optimistic scenario, but it could happen

I wrote about the insanity of not knowing the top TikToks for any given time period: 12challenges.substack.com/p/todays-top...

❓Want to know the most viewed videos on TikTok? Too bad. You can't. Which is insane Read more here: 12challenges.substack.com/p/todays-top...

📚 I just learned a new word in the course of my research for 12 Challenges: bryology (n.) The study of mosses and liverworts

📈 Psyched to be in the top 10 on Hacker News for my piece about how to survive a cease-and-desist from Big Tech!

Since using TikTok more actively for Challenge 2 (see post), I've been struck by: - How you have to become addicted to TikTok to understand it better - How idiosyncratic a content universe it is - How built-in manipulative designs like autoplay are in the app