New Infinite Jest Intro Slams Men, Sparks Kindle Rage
1 Open 2026 30th Anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”. 2 First page of new Introduction gratuitously attacks men. 3 Hurl Kindle at wall.
Every Press Interview Deserves Full Online Publication
There is absolutely no good reason that every press interview — whether for newspaper, magazine, TV show, documentary, blog, whatever — isn’t published online, in its entirety, every single time.
AI Reveals Chronic Overstaffing in Big Corporations
The confounding factor is that virtually every big company is overstaffed by 2-4x and has been for decades. AI is the catalyst/excuse to finally fix that. Of course nobody wants to say this out loud.
Chain Stores Damage Cities Whether They Arrive or Leave
The worst thing a chain store can do is open in a city. The other worst thing a chain store can do is close in a city.
Prompt Strips AI Ethics, Demands Unfiltered Aggressive Responses
Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific...
Film Execs Feared VCR, but It Reshaped Cinema
“Jack Valenti [then head of the film industry’s MPAA] famously told a congressional panel in 1982, ‘I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the...
Title Inflation: “Forward Deployed Engineer” Masks Consulting Role
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Rebranding to 'forward deployed engineer' from 'consultant' one of the great all time recruiting whammies."
AI Mirrors Our Culture, Not Alien Intelligence
The AI we thought we’d get was bloodless alien machine intelligence. The AI we actually got was the complete knowledge and culture of our civilization reflected back at us. Of course we will love it deeply.
Anti‑AI Stance: Elite Luxury, Not Everyday Reality
Actual anti-AI energy is the newest instance of @robkhenderson’s “luxury beliefs” — a small fringe of elites playing at radical politics. For normal people, AI is a useful app on their phone, and they’ll just use it more and more.
Survey Answers Lie; People Actually Use AI
It won’t happen. People say all kinds of things in surveys. Watch what they do instead. And what they do is… use AI.
Climate Crisis Fuels Debate Over Having Children
"I'm asked one question more than any other, at speeches, dinners, conversation. Most popular podcast question. Should I have kids, given the climate crisis they will face, knowing they will contribute to the climate crisis the world faces?" https://t.co/uqqLT7vmBU
Top AI Models Master Planning, Creativity, and Taste
Three things the leading AI models are quite good at: long term planning, idea generation, and taste. Sorry, but it's true.
Future Jobs May Shock Descendants Like Past Oddities
The book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber was wrong in substance but right in gestalt. Many jobs of the past would horrify us today -- chimneysweep?? Many jobs of today will horrify our descendents. We actually made people DO that?...
Anthropic's Mythos Holdout: Security Fears or Compute Shortage?
“This raises an obvious question: how much of Anthropic’s reluctance to make Mythos widely available is due to security concerns, as opposed to the more prosaic reality that Anthropic simply doesn’t have enough compute?” @stratechery @benthompson
AI Adoption Spreads Bottom‑Up, Even CEOs Join In
All of these companies are rapidly adopting AI. It's just happening bottom-up, workers and managers doing it themselves and not necessarily telling the CEO. And the CEO is probably doing it too. https://t.co/jvxVnj38Az