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The Print Party: The publication as an object for community Announcing our first panel for Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19

Everywhere you look these days in San Francisco, there's a new zine, magazine, literary journal, or newspaper.

At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19, @cydhayes.bsky.social will sit down with @jasmine.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, and @ovillalon.bsky.social to discuss SF's print boom.

there's a lot of nuance to AI psychosis incidents. chatbot use is rarely the only trigger, but it likely makes things worse

this essay IMO does a good job wrestling with the complexity & suggesting specific interventions

it was a pleasure to edit

A rare first-person account of experiencing AI-induced psychosis, from a young tech founder who "should have known better"

joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are racing to grab a chunk of AI capital and equity as it races upward. Meanwhile the rest of us face a dilemma: "Are you going to be the piggy or be the one making the slop?"

“Neo-hustle-culture is a modern twist on Weber’s Protestant ethic: if the world is soon to be divided into the blessed and the damned, the techno-kings and the techno-peasants, anxious technologists should work as hard as they can to prove they deserve to end up on the right side of that divide.”

thank you!!

mostly quietly, am a bit too tired to "figure out" a third social platform (twitter/substack are the most work-adjacent for me), but sometimes I check when I get bluesky traffic to posts!

henry! too kind!

Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror This week on Sinica, co-host Tianyu Fang makes his debut on the show to join me in interviewing his Stanford classmate and talented writer Jasmine Sun, who studies the anthropology of disruption.

The latest episode of @kaiserkuo.bsky.social's essential Sinica podcast features @jasmine.bsky.social who is a great China tech watcher. This was one of the topics that they discussed and I very much enjoyed it. It's totally worth your valuable time.

are you high-agency or an NPC? AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley

really good exploration of silicon valley's collective nervous breakdown as its anxieties about deskilling, diminishing returns, etc manifest themselves in self-flattering memes. total sweaty desperation. look at my leading industry dawg we're all going to die

YouTube video by Jasmine Sun How Hippies Became Hackers (Burning Man, Accelerationism, Stewart Brand) ft. Fred Turner

@jasmine.bsky.social excellent choice
youtu.be/6TNg34K85-8?...

thank you! fred is the best

By And For Technologists Reboot's new mission for 2025 and beyond

Congrats to @jasmine.bsky.social and all our friends at Reboot for 5 years of bold, optimistic thinking!

We applaud this renewed manifesto, centering human agency in how technology is created and developed.

Here’s to 5 more!

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Stumbled into @jasmine.bsky.social's Kernel vol 5 launch party for joinreboot.org last night and boy oh boy was it a needle trip moment. Just when I was losing hope in finding the thread of moral imperative in the Bay Area tech scene! On to Open Sauce conf this weekend.

thank you for coming!!!

Some positive, growth oriented thinking about AI in creative endeavors. jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...

Worth a read. A great list of short insights, thoughts, and observations on GenAI, creativity, and implications…

notes on AI & writing the models read because they cannot live

From @jasmine.bsky.social jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...: 15. AI hallucinates, humans misremember. Yet neuroscience suggests that memory and imagination are one and the same. Per Demis Hassabis’s PhD thesis: amnesiacs make shoddy novelists."

the benefit is portraying a candid picture of what someone of this political orientation actually believes, which will not happen if I use their name or spend the interview arguing with them

So why did he change his mind?

"I was really excited about the "burn it to the ground" stuff, then you start to realize what "burn it to the ground" means."

I wanted to better understand (and complicate!) the “tech right,” so I interviewed an anonymous startup founder who supported Trump in 2024. He regrets it now.

I found our conversation fascinating 🧵

jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule

Essay | Your Next Favorite App? The One You Make Yourself. ‘Vibe-coding’ with new AI tools makes it possible for just about anyone to create personalized apps—no programming required.

"Most of us have designed our lives around using the objects and tools that other people made. It takes a change of mindset to go from 'I wish I had an app for that' to 'Why not build it myself?'"

we have never been aligned learning from 4o and white genocide Grok

chatgpt 4o's sycophancy & genocide grok were problems of human/social misalignment — not model misalignment. unfortunately companies are much more incentivized to solve the latter than the former

new essay on the hard problem of aligning AI:

jasmi.news/p/alignment

very excited to be collaborating with Kevin on this book project!

🌻 agi (disambiguation) will we know it when we see it?

“AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.” [jasmi.news]

Maybe just believing in AGI makes AGI exist. Kill the wise one!

What if instead of The Terminator and The Matrix, we used Severance and South Park to think about AI?

YouTube video by Cliptours Com Taiwan garbage truck song

I arrived in #Taipei two weeks ago and have started settling in. In honor of the moment, here's a fun little🧵 about trash collection in #Taiwan. 👀

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If you ever hear an ice cream truck off in the distance it's not carrying ice cream, it's a trash truck!

Here's a video:

youtu.be/N1rLdQ1c2NE?...

cool thread, I didn’t know about the incineration plants!

Talk Is Cheap On LLMs and oral culture

Great stuff from @jasmine.bsky.social on the return to an "oral-first" culture... joinreboot.org/p/talk-is-ch...