# sci-fi
Hail Mary was a badly mismanaged, rushed death trap driven by groupthink and politics, and Ryland Grace was right to balk at the idea.
# tech
In ads, chatbots are omniscient arbiters and truth brokers. In practice, they're sycophantic enablers according to the latest research.
# politics
Yes, being a professional asshole is now a viable career option. Which is awful news for online discourse.
# science
Yes, sadly, some of the worst stereotypes about corporate culture really are true.
# tech
According to Anthropic, LLMs can obliterate most white collar jobs. Well, theoretically...
# tech
Tone deaf tech bros no longer seem to understand that their pitch for AI is fundamentally dystopian and dismissive.
# tech
Why breaking the grip of giant social media platforms may require a major step back into the web's early days.
# tech
Social media isn't for people anymore. It's for bots, AI, investors, and metrics.
# tech
Thanks to an explosion of cheap computing power, AI is advancing faster than ever. But one of it's high priests seems to be firmly stuck in the past millennium...
# tech
Handing TikTok to Trump's friends seems like a slam dunk for MAGA's PR goals, but the platform may be too unruly and too feisty to easily manipulate.
# tech
Is code really a liability instead of an asset? Actually, it's more like Schrodinger's cat...
# oddities
A quick update on some developments for this newsletter.
# tech
The creative, open web is being strangled by homogenized omni-platforms. Just look at the evolution of Substack.
# oddities
Of all the dystopias that get covered in pop culture and the media, a technocracy seldom makes the list. It probably should.
# tech
No one forgot about 4chan. The site may be on and off, but we all live in the world its worst trolls built.
