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The Technological Generation Gap
How my children got zapped by apps
HarmonyOS–The OS To Unite All OSes, and Untie From The West
Someday soon I will not be typing this on an iPhone
The Superiority Of Piracy
The real sharing economy is piracy and all the money is in suppressing it
The Ouroboros Of Machine Learning
When machines start eating their own vomit
The Boeing 737 MAX and The Crash Of Capitalism
The doors are coming off
How Futurists Got The Future All Wrong
Reviewing Ray Kurzweil’s predictions for 2019
How ChatGPT Is A Bullshit Artist
ChatGPT’s core functionality is generating bullshit
How Email Has Changed Reading And Writing
What reading and writing newsletters is like, for me
The Uberization Of War
How ordering airstrikes became as easy as ordering pizza
How China Is Leading On Climate While America Drags Us Down (In Two Charts)
America should not be fighting China right now, they should be following their lead
The Worst Case Scenario For AI Is Already Here
Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries
How Science Played With Magic And Got Burnt
Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic
How The Ancients Had Better Technology Than Us
They had communication technology so powerful it reaches us still
How Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
Minerals are also non-renewable resources
How Science Is Dead
Basic science ground to a halt last century
How Space Is Not Going To Save Us
Space can’t save us from ourselves
The Substack Shitshow
More proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital
Three Ways I Actually Use AI
Why ChatGPT and Midjourney et al are worth the hype
The Relief (And Boredom) Of An Empty Inbox
How Hey changed email for me
A Normal Person From 20 Years Ago Would Look Like A Monk Today
Remembering life before the digital age
Facebook's Pivot To VR Has Failed
Stick a fork in the Metaverse, it's done
The Blue Check Carnival On Twitter
How Twitter today is like a Renaissance Carnival
How The Fossil Record Shows The Rise Of Machines
Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings
Elon Musk Is A Masturbator More Than An Innovator
Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification
How We Misunderstand AI
We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes
Tesla’s Netflix Problem
Competition incoming
How Crypto Is Like Early Corporations
And how they’re both artificial life
How Renewables Are The Only Secure Energy Source Now
Nobody can depend on fossil fuels anymore
How BitTorrent Is Better Than BitCoin
We already have a protocol for decentralizing content. Web3 is a fugazi
I Tried The Metaverse, and It’s None Of Facebook’s Business
VR is cool, but useless for Facebook
How Cars Are The Apex Predators
If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
How AI Evolved In Money
Chapter 3 of Das Kapital: dat money
Why Capitalism Keeps Falling Over
Sometimes the simplest way to move forward is to keep building towers and crashing them.
Blackberry Died, But I’m Still Using One
RIP to the perfect low-distraction phone
How Commodities Are Artificial Life
Marx's commodity fetish wasn't necrophilia
How Marx's Capital Is About AI
Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.
How I Finally Understood Crypto (Thru Animal Farm)
Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'
Cars Are Dinosaurs And Electric Dinosaurs Won't Help
Electric cars are completely inadequate for surviving our climate catastrophe. We need to evolve a completely different form of life.
What Life Is Like Without Amazon
It's fine.
Corporations Are People And They're Killing Us
Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well
Why Substack Sucks
Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
How Tesla Is Bad For The Earth
An electric car is still a car, and cars are bad
How Bitcoin Is Hostile AI
Who needs Skynet to take over the world? Just throw techbros some coin
How Our Family Takes A Digital Sabbath
The power of disconnecting from distraction
How I Turned Our TV Into A Computer (a TVC)
The best Smart TV is just a shitty computer, so I built one
Screen Time Can’t Be Worse Than My Dangerous Childhood
Whatever you do on a screen, you can’t light it on fire
How I Quit WhatsApp
Quitting the demon app is not for everyone, but it’s possible
The Terrible Telegraph
Just open the bloody telegraph, Out pours a litany of shit. Now put it in your pocket. You can’t get rid of it.
Corporations Are Already AI
The stock market is sentient and it hates you
Life Without A Smartphone
It’s fine