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A Normal Person From 20 Years Ago Would Look Like A Monk Today
Remembering life before the digital age
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Facebook's Pivot To VR Has Failed
Stick a fork in the Metaverse, it's done
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The Blue Check Carnival On Twitter
How Twitter today is like a Renaissance Carnival
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How The Fossil Record Shows The Rise Of Machines
Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings
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Elon Musk Is A Masturbator More Than An Innovator
Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification
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How We Misunderstand AI
We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes
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Tesla’s Netflix Problem
Competition incoming
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How Crypto Is Like Early Corporations
And how they’re both artificial life
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How Renewables Are The Only Secure Energy Source Now
Nobody can depend on fossil fuels anymore
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How BitTorrent Is Better Than BitCoin
We already have a protocol for decentralizing content. Web3 is a fugazi
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I Tried The Metaverse, and It’s None Of Facebook’s Business
VR is cool, but useless for Facebook
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How Cars Are The Apex Predators
If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
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How AI Evolved In Money
Chapter 3 of Das Kapital: dat money
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Why Capitalism Keeps Falling Over
Sometimes the simplest way to move forward is to keep building towers and crashing them.
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Blackberry Died, But I’m Still Using One
RIP to the perfect low-distraction phone
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How Commodities Are Artificial Life
Marx's commodity fetish wasn't necrophilia
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How Marx's Capital Is About AI
Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.
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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.'
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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.
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What Life Is Like Without Amazon
It's fine.
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Corporations Are People And They're Killing Us
Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well
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Why Substack Sucks
Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
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How Tesla Is Bad For The Earth
An electric car is still a car, and cars are bad
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How Bitcoin Is Hostile AI
Who needs Skynet to take over the world? Just throw techbros some coin
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How Our Family Takes A Digital Sabbath
The power of disconnecting from distraction
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How I Turned Our TV Into A Computer (a TVC)
The best Smart TV is just a shitty computer, so I built one
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Screen Time Can’t Be Worse Than My Dangerous Childhood
Whatever you do on a screen, you can’t light it on fire
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How I Quit WhatsApp
Quitting the demon app is not for everyone, but it’s possible
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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.
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Corporations Are Already AI
The stock market is sentient and it hates you
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Life Without A Smartphone
It’s fine
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How Video Calls Are Made For TV
The big screen is the best screen
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The Latest Coronavirus Drugs and Vaccines
In two infographics
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Green Energy Is Now As Cheap As Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past
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Yahoo Will Pay You $100 If You Had One of Their Shitty Accounts
It’s settlement time.
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The Climate Crisis Is an Opportunity
When did we become so resistant to progress?
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How Instagram Could Have Beat Facebook
They could have been a contender
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How Google Tricked Us Into Clicking Ads
Google just ran a psychology experiment on all of us, and it worked
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A Design For A Paid Internet
What if the whole thing was a paywall?
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Netflix’s Secret Weapon: The World
Over 50% of Netflix’s business is now international
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Forget Mars. We Should Colonize Venus First
Venus is our galactic AirBnB
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Mercedes And Tesla Had A Bastard Child
The affordable, appealing and tragically flawed B250E
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How The 737 MAX Went Down
Boeing’s cost-cutting finally led to disaster
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How The Dreamliner Became A Production Nightmare
How the 787 Led to the 737 MAX
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Boeing’s Culture Crash
Boeing’s culture crashed before the planes did
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What If Steve Jobs Made A TV?
His death killed a timeline where TVs didn’t suck
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Why Apple Is Better Without Jony Ive
Ive’s mobile products were a revelation, but his larger computers left a lot to be desired
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Uber’s Rise And Fall In One Map
How Uber won and lost the world
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Self-Driving Cars Should Be Tuk-Tuks
Why move metal when you can move humans
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Pooping In Space
In space, everyone can hear you fart