Just a quick programming note: the newsletter will be on hiatus the next two weeks as I spend time with family in the wake of my father's recent passing. I appreciate your patience and readership. Regular posts will return in mid-August as
Just a quick programming note: my 90-year-old father passed away over the weekend, so posts will be less frequent and more sporadic over the next month. I appreciate your understanding and continued readership. Last week Republicans took th…
I've already explored how Substack executives are generally terrible people who coddle white-supremacists, transphobes, and nazis to goose clicks, engagement, and revenues. This is extremely well documented at this point.Numerous Substack n…
I really "enjoyed" (read: didn't enjoy at all) this recent piece in The Atlantic (non-paywalled archive link) proclaiming that the backlash to AI data centers is "overblown." It's part of a broader effort by our affluent brunchlord press to…
We're living in split realities. There's what modern software is actually capable of, and then there's the gargantuan pile of "AI" hype, fraud, and bullshit our biggest tech companies (and their lazy enablers in the tech press) have shovele…
So I just got done writing about how Elon Musk's xAI data centers outside of Memphis feature 57 largely-unregulated gas turbines pumping pollutants and toxic chemicals into black neighborhoods that already see disproportionate levels of pol…
Last week New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a bunch of his "democratic socialist" allies won several key primaries in the city. The victories kicked several Democratic party incumbents to the curb, instantaneously triggering a massive
This week my colleague Sean Gonsalves and I wrote a feature for The Verge about how billionaires have hijacked billions of taxpayer dollars intended for better internet access, and instead shoveled that money into the pockets of openly tech…
If you're one of these folks oddly surprised why the animosity against AI is so white hot, or why younger Americans have inextricably linked AI to the broader rotten body politic, I'd like to direct your attention to Memphis, Tennessee. In
Elon Musk is a hateful white supremacist cosplaying as a supergenius engineer. There's little indication he actually understands how anything works, yet he's endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent r…
In case you missed it, Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison recently decided to gift his eyebrowless nepobaby son David not one (CBS/Paramount), but two (Warner Brothers) major Hollywood studios and media empires.Truly heartwarming stuff.…
One common refrain in the AI hype cycle has been that AI development is not only perpetually just a few weeks and another billion away from human-level sentience, but that this sentience will ultimately try to kill us all. Neither of those