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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 -
How Video Calls Are Made For TV
The big screen is the best screen -
The Latest Coronavirus Drugs and Vaccines
In two infographics
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