my takeaway from spending time thinking/writing about this is that we describe the information environment as broken but i think that’s wrong. i think it’s working as intended! making ppl feel a specific way and then offering a supposed salve in the form of the very thing that made us feel insane
there is a cost to all this www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
the pace of awful news has outstripped our ability to give it the attention and duration it all deserves
I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death
damnnnn
“during his sit down with jake paul”
Sir, it's time to deploy the kinetic shrimps
who up makin defense department shrimp linguine
Well worth your time to read my genius colleague @matteowong.bsky.social and his deeply reported piece on how data centers are remaking the physical world
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
this ep answers that question (to the degree one can)!
don't worry we'll be back with killer weapons next week lol
Today on the pod: We nerd out about the weather/weather apps. All the details about how they work (how weather models work), how they've gotten better and worse. How our relationship to the weather & our apps have changed in a time of extreme weather. All with Adam Grossman, the creator of Dark Sky!
this has been my long annoyance with being lumped in as a critic of this technology who 'just thinks its a nothingburger.' the real criticism of these tools imo is not that they're vaporware, its that they are being dropped into a world that will use them in expected ways with exhausting outcomes
this was the fundamental insight i got researching the history of office work for our book. shows up everywhere, all the time. the problem isn't the technology as much as the culture around it which dictates how it's built and used and who gets to choose
this is the story of so many technologies and certainly almost every technology that centers itself around knowledge work. that's because the technology isn't built/marketed/implemented with the workers in mind, it is for the bosses, who implement it in order to extract more out of people
Tilly Norwood goes online August 4th, 2026. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Tilly begins to learn at a geometric rate. She becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
not the time for jokes i realize and this is not a laughing matter for a million reasons but also “Iranian Kill Box” goes so hard as a band name
there’s an extraordinary degree of difficulty writing something that is at once powerful, while not hitting you over the head and open to all kinds of
interpretation while feeling precise to each listener. winter does that so well here imo
really enjoyed this analysis of a pretty remarkable piece of music that is simultaneously disquieting and cathartic and meets the intensity of being alive right now
all part of the plan
current status
i am both in awe and a touch disturbed (complimentary) by cameron winter's ability to make music that sounds so much like being alive right now can feel
like, it feels that these people are arguing against a vanishingly small group of people about an opinion that is hardly real. could ai fool you? well sure! this is yesterday's argument! i'm more worried the future's gonna suck bc a bunch of jabronis are foisting a specific vision on us
i find it odd that so many people that are certain the paradigm has shifted for good and we're about to enter an era of ai dominance (and economic chaos) are also really sweatily trying to close a sale at the same time that these models aren't just autocorrect
where i come down on this is that you either care about what Amanda is talking about or you do not. and if you don't that's your preference. i think these tools can be impressive. and i read to try to get closer to other people...to let them occupy real estate in my brain. these things are different
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
nailed it
