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The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster This sort of journalism doesn't really care about real consumers, labor, technology, or even whether the technology even works. Its focus is...
Pomp and Circumstances
Pluralistic: The (real) dead economy theory (17 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow The true risk of AI to your job isn't: "an AI will do your job." It's: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness...
Trump knows his deal with Iran is bad. His closing G7 speech made that very clear This was probably the most alarming Trump appearance to date. He was breathless and incoherent, ill-seeming and off-piste. He spent 32 minutes justifying...
Moneyball (2011)
Another idea newly influential in analytic circles at this time originated with Brian Jenkins, an expert at the Rand Corporation in California, who had studied…
I’ve been bad. I’ve done the worst thing in the world. I’ve been on eBay. The Camel Trophy was an international driving competition sponsored by…
Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that...
Exclusive: Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange Theodore Gillibrand, whose mother is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), has drummed up $30 million in a fundraise led by...
Six months into AI-assisted work, the biggest gains come from broad context, cross-domain reasoning, and feedback systems that help agents converge.
Erik Davis: It's a challenging time for writers, not just economically, but motivationally. I've been writing about media, music, theory, drugs, spirituality, and technoculture for forty years now. I don't know what it means to do this...
Measuring web performance without lying to yourself.
I know some of you will complain that this site is amateurish and doesn’t use IPA, but I don’t care — I’m a sucker for these things (North Carolina, Colorado, Wyoming, UK), and I can’t resist passing them along. So herewith please find...