Technology

Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings

Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification

We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes

Competition incoming

And how they’re both artificial life

Nobody can depend on fossil fuels anymore

We already have a protocol for decentralizing content. Web3 is a fugazi

VR is cool, but useless for Facebook

If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?

Chapter 3 of Das Kapital: dat money

Sometimes the simplest way to move forward is to keep building towers and crashing them.

RIP to the perfect low-distraction phone

Marx's commodity fetish wasn't necrophilia

Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.

Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'

Electric cars are completely inadequate for surviving our climate catastrophe. We need to evolve a completely different form of life.

It's fine.

Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well

Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro

An electric car is still a car, and cars are bad

Who needs Skynet to take over the world? Just throw techbros some coin

The power of disconnecting from distraction

The best Smart TV is just a shitty computer, so I built one

Whatever you do on a screen, you can’t light it on fire

Quitting the demon app is not for everyone, but it’s possible

Just open the bloody telegraph,  Out pours a litany of shit. Now put it in your pocket. You can’t get rid of it.

The stock market is sentient and it hates you

It’s fine

The big screen is the best screen

In two infographics

Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past

It’s settlement time.

When did we become so resistant to progress?

They could have been a contender

Google just ran a psychology experiment on all of us, and it worked

What if the whole thing was a paywall?

Over 50% of Netflix’s business is now international

Venus is our galactic AirBnB

The affordable, appealing and tragically flawed B250E

Boeing’s cost-cutting finally led to disaster

How the 787 Led to the 737 MAX

Boeing’s culture crashed before the planes did

His death killed a timeline where TVs didn’t suck

Ive’s mobile products were a revelation, but his larger computers left a lot to be desired

How Uber won and lost the world

Why move metal when you can move humans

In space, everyone can hear you fart

It doesn’t matter how efficient you make a car. It’s still a car

The original agile developer

Speech is not the issue. Targeting is.