1. Māori haka 2. Norwegian rowing chant 3. Unknown

My piece for @dezeen.com: FIFA’s mandate that World Cup host cities provide game-day public transit is a unique opportunity for American cities. It’s a chance to experiment and to learn from other places addressing the same challenges at the same time. www.dezeen.com/2026/06/30/w...

Reminder: “energy is too cheap and abundant” is only a problem for investors, not for people. Renewable energy is a public good.

I'm endlessly surprised to realise that medium.com still exists.

This is one of many reasons why designing societies around cars was a mistake. It's not a path to follow, it's something that good civic leaders are now trying to undo. These guys don't understand *anything* about society, yet governments are allowing them to shape our futures with their ignorance.

Don't wait until it's too late for Epstein-like files to drop when you have the chance to expose networks while they're active.

Well, at least he still has the Taco Bell Arena (Boise State). www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/p...

Court rules 🔨Google's AI Overviews are NOT search results 🔨search engine liability rules DON'T apply 🔨"users can check for themselves"defense is🐄💩 "Google built the AI[..]so Google owns what it produces, "because it alone has influence over the AI's offering &the algorithms w which the AI operates"

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Seems to be in the air. Friday I wrote Sunday's Sentiers and mentioned the Axial Age—which I first learned about in a talk by @jonathanrowson.bsky.social a couple of years ago. Saturday @noemamag.com's newsletter lead with this. www.noemamag.com/what-might-t...

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Stoooooopppp!!!!!! spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-infe...

In case people have not got it yet...this is not faulty tech but the point of the AI Industry: "Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history."

also: today in unwritten Ballard novels

LoL! Nope! www.wired.com/story/even-i...

Narrator voice: he was, he sure as hell was.

Yes, I agree. Only billionaires should be allowed on this mission. As many of them as possible. We wouldn't want any of them to feel left out! What an exciting opportunity for all of us.

never forget: despite being the most successful of the billionaire wannabe rocket barons Musk is the only one that has never been into space himself afaik no fawning journalist or fan has ever asked him why? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The great thing is the more attention these incidents get the more likely they are to spread and be mimicked, commencement/graduation speeches this year have the potential to do the funniest thing

Hey Siri, show me an example of someone going way, way, way, way (I mean wayyyyyy) over the head of their interlocutor.

Oh god the discussion in Vancouver is going to be so stupid from all sides. “11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing.

I swear I haven't laughed out loud so much at a standup comedian in two years, never mind an "AI realist." youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?...

Now that AI can figure captchas out, the real test of humanity is not whether you can solve it, but whether you are annoyed af each time.

These dudes think they are casting spells. @wolvendamien.bsky.social called it a long time ago.

In the "I should re-read @rezendi.com's Swarm from... going on 15 years ago" department. spectrum.ieee.org/autonomous-d...

Last time I linked to Zitron was September 2024 and I unsubbed a good while ago, so this doesn't come as a surprise, but it needed to be said.

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

@so-lorange.bsky.social Lighting = organisation de grande classe mais equipe de pas de classes. Une belle gang de Ronaldos.

Yes, yes you are. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Pet peeve: weather apps/sites that show you, 1-2 days ahead, that day X is cloudy with rain. Then you look at the hourly detail, and it's actually sunny all day with clouds and rain coming in after 7-8pm. How is that a rainy day??

As we have long suspected, CEOs and business “leaders” are easily replaceable.

@mathiasbrunet.bsky.social avez-vous pris de l'avance sur la chronique de lundi concernant les blessures inutiles à des joueurs importants qui bloquent des tirs?

Social media, AI, quantum computing-- on being clear as to the real issues: "Geist in the machine & The prospect of Butlerian Jihad" @inevernu.bsky.social (Plus- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) Keeping our eyes on the prize: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/10/i...

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question,[...] a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

I mostly do the same kinds of things every day and mostly use Claude. Some days Claude seems to be a moron, some days everything runs smoothly. How about you? Does Claude's smarts vary from day to day? (It's a frickin' idiot today, tbh.)

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

April fools', the original slop. (Catching up on newsletters from the last few days.)

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Author of the classic novel “if you wear AR goggles out and about people won’t like it and will call you a rude word” unexpectedly negative about the idea of wearing AR goggles out and about

an example of how "the free market" is only important to them when it benefits them

"We may never use hydrogen to move a car or a truck, but at that [solar] price, we will have cheap green steel, synthetic ammonia for fertilizer and industrial heat. These are the exact sectors skeptics say renewables can never reach." www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe... via @inevernu.bsky.social

I can only assume discussions are already ongoing for Owen Wilson to play Jürgen Habermas in a biopic?

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

I'd be really curious to see a chart with: - Jobs lost to AI, for realz. - Jobs lost, the excuse involved AI, but it was because business was bad. - Jobs lost in tech companies because the inc. wants to save money to throw it all into AI training and infrastructure. techstartups.com/2026/03/13/m...

Aye aye aye futurism.com/artificial-i...

I was today-years-old when I realised that Anthropic's Claude was likely named after Claude Shannon. D'oh! (Can't find an official confirmation though.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...

I'm thinking protomolecule. futurism.com/space/water-...

Not all that surprising, sadly.