You can tell that generative AI is flopping because every AI commercial is just inventing a different hypothetical use case for it. "Did you know you can ask it for a good recipe?" Imagine a lawn care commercial that needed to explain what you can do on a lawn

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

Incredibly well put - defector.com/why-i-got-ou...

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."

Anthropomorphizing Anthracite

I genuinely think the role of Meta specifically in driving loneliness is underrated. Facebook replaced existing ways of keeping up with friends with what was briefly a great product, then destroyed that product.

Here is a new way to get upset about stuff that I invented, and some thoughts on contextualizing things that are otherwise hard to comprehend. defector.com/a-dumb-new-w...

Shout out to these two guys who kiss when they see themselves on the Vatican livestream

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

Whether it's liberal students booing Charles Murray or conservative presidents sending innocent fathers to die in El Salvadoran torture prisons, there's been plenty of incivility on both sides of the political spectrum.