Well, that certainly cleared that up.

I need a way to simulate authenticity.

If I reject your cookies, please don't take it personally.

By every metric that matters to Silicon Valley—funding rounds, user growth, media coverage—generative AI appears to be revolutionizing everything. But peek behind the curtain at how companies actually use these tools, and a different story emerges. unfoldingai.substack.com/p/has-genera...

unfoldingai.substack.com/p/has-genera... An early look at gen AI adoption suggests that we are still early, but transformative impact may be on the horizon. Ready my analysis and let me know what you think.

I found myself before a shelf of Science, & Technology Studies works

Markets surge on socialist takeover

Why do so many Americans need government food assistance?

Partisan message from the U.S. Small Business Administration: "Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding." Who are those 320 small businesses?

If you've never started your day by bicycling 3 miles at top speed through city traffic, running through the train station, turning back to pick up the clothing that fell from your backpack, then charging down the escalator and onto the train 1 minute before departure, you are missing something.

I, too, commit to spending $1.5 trillion. Hell, make it $1.6 trillion.

Beyond the AI Giants - The progress around large language models is cool. But a lot of real work is being sone by small language models. open.substack.com/pub/unfoldin...

Businesses press Supreme Court to strike down Donald Trump’s emergency tariff power - on.ft.com/4hBsYm6 via @FT

Who supports treating American citizens this way?

The Upper West Side had received 20,000 pizza orders today.

Oh man, now we have floating-point non-associativity to worry about.

It might just be LinkedIn. Almost everything I read these days seems AI generated. It feels like a dystopian future.

The Trump administration is preparing us for summary executions within the United States. US carries out new strike in Caribbean, killing 3 alleged drug smugglers www.npr.org/2025/11/02/n...

The next terrorist attack--and what comes after, by @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

A couple of reasons for the slow adoption of AI. (There are several other good ones.) www.economist.com/finance-and-...

If paper, podcast, or album "drops" I'm much less likely to be interested than if it's published, posted, or released.

@mims.bsky.social is one of my favorite tech journalists. He consistently surfaces important stories and conveys complex ideas clearly. I'm not just saying this because his latest WSJ column, on small language models, covers ground similar to my latest Substack. :-) open.substack.com/pub/unfoldin...

Capital spending: $10 billion per MONTH www.wsj.com/business/ear...

OpenAI and other AI giants are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build the biggest, best AI models. But bigger isn't always better. You can already see this in how companies are adopting generative AI. unfoldingai.substack.com/p/beyond-the...

A police state, by the numbers.

Do you know how many people Trump has killed this year? At least 22 at the hands of ICE, and another 50+ unknown individuals blown up in their boats. Everyone cool with this? He's just getting started btw

The GOP-led Congress is not showing up for work, not demanding answers on Trump's undeclared war in South America and the Caribbean, not objecting to troop deployments in US cities. They are doing this instead.

Capital eats labor

I can't believe this is my country

How many cold-blooded killers and terrorists has ICE arrested at Home Depot?

@delong.social :

Canadians concerned about the collapse of the rule of law south of the border

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

I'm very excited to share that my brilliant wife's book has arrived! Congratulations @susanbodnarphd.bsky.social !

Why aren't Democrats giving speeches on the Capitol steps every day? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The President of the United States could have made an effort to persuade all Americans that illegal immigration is a problem that requires a response involving $170 billion in spending and the cooperation of all Americans.

"The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

I heard about a MAGA guy who excused Trump's demolition of the East Wing: a) presidents always make changes to the White House--Nixon put in a bowling alley; b) Well, the Woke Left pulled down statues. You have your talking points. Switch off your critical thinking and repeat them.

The Trump Administration released an AI action plan a few months ago. Never in modern history has the U.S. government moved so fast to adopt a newly commercialized technology. The government shutdown may undermine its goals, though. unfoldingai.substack.com/p/the-govern...

Singapore’s prime minister warns of ‘messy’ transition to post-American order - on.ft.com/4nYKFi1 via @FT

I can't imagine why. Can you? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Bad time for a booze cruise www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

While you are thinking about the Roman Empire, I am thinking about the Peace of Westphalia. Cuius regio, eius religio.

A new "America First."

Schatsky's Third Law of Pricing: If you get an email from a company with the subject line "Your subscription price is changing," your price is going up.

Torn between a teleological suspension of the ethical and the social construction of everything that we thought was real.

If someone curated the very best artistic and intellectual achievements of all humanity and made them available to us on demand, we'd probably still spend time on other things. Why?