yeah that orange iPhone 17 Pro is nasty

I’ve been having a lot of fun working on my newsletter, Silicon Sea. This month, I wrote about AI slop and figured out what else to say about it other than “I hate it.” W/ thanks to @pbooth81.bsky.social for the interview! open.substack.com/pub/silicons...

Wrote a piece for my newsletter, Silicon Sea, about all those TikTok videos telling you to RUN to Target. Or Costco. Or wherever. siliconsea.substack.com/p/the-shoppi...

Two shirts seen at the airport: “I don’t care. Work harder!” “I’m trying.”

What a fever dream

before tiktok, before bluesky, before twitter, before meta, before it all, there were sewers. after all, there will be sewers.

Wrote a piece for my newsletter, Silicon Sea, about watching social media turn to ruins. siliconsea.substack.com/p/watching-t...

First post goes out tomorrow morning!

I was lucky enough to cover the intersection of tech/science/the internet and the way we live our lives for years. There’s so much more to say, so I’m launching a tech culture commentary newsletter. It’s free. Monthly. Intro send slated for the end of the week. siliconsea.substack.com

Genuinely, the best source of weather info in Nashville.

This was one of my favorite things published on the internet period this year.

The bleeding edge humor of me asking, “Do you take Apple Pay?” at the Apple Store yesterday.

Worth the read.

There’s a 26-volume, 54-pound copy of the Warren Commission Report on this list, which is McSweeney’s level unhinged and I love it.

1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works. Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish. We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted. First stop: West Point.

It'll start telling you to put glue on dishes you would never even dream of

Contains such blazing AI-driven insight as “yeah, that’s a great track.”

The simmering discontent over Spotify Wrapped not being out yet is the only online outrage I can accept.

“Our tests found that no publisher—regardless of degree of affiliation with OpenAI—was spared inaccurate representations of its content in ChatGPT.” www.cjr.org/tow_center/h... via @columjournreview.bsky.social

Come back: Blogs Go away: Poor social skills

“Whether children find ways to get past the restrictions is beside the point, [Prime Minister] Albanese said.” … is it?

Is this… my new favorite word?

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After almost entirely dipping out of the *other place* in Nov. ‘22, I think I’ve forgotten how to do this.

I didn’t know I could love clickbait this hard, but here we are https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/heres-why-elon-musks-rebranding-of-twitter-to-x-is-good-actually/

Zuck: "Look we made a new app! Come join it!" Me:

My New Year’s resolution was to *delete* one social media account

Still not over it. https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

Summer ‘03: I’m fresh out of 8th grade, headed to my first concert — Matchbox Twenty — wearing an Aeropostale shirt that described itself as such and some kind of shell necklace. Sugar Ray opens. Absolutely iconic. Last night: Saw MB20 for the first time since. Nostalgic. Cathartic. Louder?