“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

“Listen here, my good bitch.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

At least someone is making money with AI futurism.com/ai-browser-h...

A somewhat interesting side note: the main factor driving iPhone purchases is breakage and obsolescence—not new features. sherwood.news/tech/apple-i...

“Inflated projections for data center energy demands could lock the US into unnecessary, costly fossil fuel projects and pollution.” www.theverge.com/report/78295...

I really wanted to dislike Apple‘s new UI, but… It‘s kinda growing on me.

“Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable […].” hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Looks like I am going to be on Stage at the @medientage-mtm.bsky.social. medientage.de/programm/pan...

The entire @wired.com politics package is full of easter eggs and visual insanity. This might be my favorite. The Washington Post didn't seem to need the slogan anymore, so...happy to take it off their hands for a minute.

I think the biggest take away here is that the Silicon Valley elite’s shift to the right has been the result of petty grievances. www.wired.com/story/silico...

Y'know, if the Theranos scandal was in 2025 instead of 2015... nothing would have happened. -The government wouldn't have investigated, because the investigator would've been DOGE'd. -Early investors would've sued the WSJ for reporting. -Tech moguls would've quashed social media chatter.

Real pros use — of course — a half space to establish their superior typesetting skills.

This is pretty smart (and also fun) ”We’re turning our latest cover into posters, billboards, and even a mural in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.” www.wired.com/story/wired-...

Really enjoying the revelation of some peeps that "deploying AI" often means software projects at the scale of an SAP implementation, but with an even less clear upside. www.wsj.com/articles/how...

“Over the past year, the promise of technological revolution has been a welcome distraction from the darker reality of America’s shaky institutions, rising trade barriers and vast government borrowing.” www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“Notion now includes AI connectors for a variety of sources like GitHub, Gmail, Jira, etc. Each of these sources could feed malicious prompts to the Notion AI agent through indirect prompt injection attacks…” www.codeintegrity.ai/blog/notion

Hey all, quick question: is it good that mark zuckerberg’s answer to “are we in a bubble” was “yeah, maybe, but don’t worry, it’s just like the dot com boom,” a point easily-disproved? Isn’t he meant to be the guy who has a real answer? Is this good? Hello?! www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

All predictions about the future of technology are wrong but some will make you a lot of money.

This is just… kinda sad www.highsnobiety.com/en-de/shop/c...

“While San Francisco’s tech world has always been obnoxious on a cultural level due to its own lack of self-awareness, what it’s morphing into now is downright terrifying.” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

You just know that this guy will inevitably die in some completely avoidable accident in a cosmic act of irony.

OH: maybe we need to air out and freshly paint the problem space. A new parquet floor might also help.

OH: braindrain or brainrot?

Axel Springer doing Axel Springer stuff www.theverge.com/news/779739/...

Feeling so fucking tired again.

We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

The fact that (apparently) just ~4% use ChatGPT for coding is kinda surprising. Also… pretty hard to make the argument from this that this will move GDP at all. www.nber.org/system/files... (pg. 18)

“A few days after installing the iOS 26 beta, I changed my wallpaper to black, and it made everything a little more bearable.” www.theverge.com/apple/778197...

“Das Ziel von Hypes ist es nicht, Wissen über die Zukunft zu vermitteln, sondern allein Aufmerksamkeit zu generieren und Kapital zu akkumulieren.” www.jacobin.de/artikel/tech...

Trying to figure out without watching if this will make me mad www.youtube.com/watch?v=upND...

“People who don’t want to work” prominently includes journalists who claim to be reporting on A.I. but speak only to A.I. salespeople

"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."

At the airport in Barcelona, there is a kiosk where a robot arm services you. The tablet to order is broken. Everyone just uses the space to sit down, as there are no humans who might shoo you away. Of course, someone still has to stock it every day. Feels very symbolic.

So many insights springing out of our Hype Studies conference in Barcelona. One, from investigative journalist Christo Buschek: the news outfits currently winning are those that resisted the previous wave of online hype @hypestudies.bsky.social. Christo was one of the team behind this

I've referred to this lecture before but there's another absolute gem: a student HAS to become vulnerable to learn because you are trying to do something before you know what you are doing, or even when you have done it. But that vulnerability is uncomfortable. This is where AI sneaks in today. 1/

Btw I have a small stack with me for the @hypestudies.bsky.social conference in Barcelona. If you want one and you see me—let me know!

Thinking a lot about tech-influencers (derogatory) lately—so here are some notes on them and how they fit/don't fit Rogers tech adoption cycle. A conscious choice as most like to style themselves as "early adopters". johannesklingebiel.de/wiki/Technol...

Wait… is that a 40k golden throne reference? Was that intended?

Just learned that you can actually natively animate SVGs and my god I need more time in my life to play with that 👀 www.w3schools.com/graphics/svg...

This is quite a nice read. Recommended.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

"Oleh Kovalskyy thinks that Starlink terminals are built as if someone assembled them with their feet. Or perhaps with their hands behind their back." www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...

One of the funniest graphs I've seen lately www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

For all the bluster about traditional aesthetics and design… *fixes the thick-rimmed glasses and peers over an espresso cup in disdain* that spacing is in itself a declaration of war.

Ah… I see blockchain™️ is back in business tempo.xyz

Interesting that this is dubbed a "jobs platform" when it can instead be best described as an "AI certification mill". I guess someone is after the corporate training budgets. sherwood.news/tech/openai-...

“Father Zeus, defender of cities, defender of homes, defender of the traveler and of those far from home, please create a loop counting from 99 to 1 called 'beerloop'” spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-pro...

Ah the 2020s version of metrosexual www.theguardian.com/society/2025...