The Deaths of Effective Altruism
My real hope is for the young people I know who truly want to work for a better world. They’re craving to do something meaningful, like...
The Mindblowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly
If all that is true—and there’s no way to tell right now—Groq might well pose a threat to the dominance of Nvidia. Ross is careful when...
My Quest to Fix a Crashing Roku App Provides a Warning About AI
Two words in this statement popped out to me like a flying dinosaur in a mixed-reality headset: when possible. When I flagged this in a subsequent...
How Beloved Indie Blog ‘The Hairpin’ Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm
What a heinous month for the media. Almost every day, a publication announces layoffs or shuts down. Sports Illustrated just let go almost all of its...
Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules
On January 24, Apple’s Macintosh computer turns 40. Normally that number is an inexorable milestone of middle age. Indeed, in the last reported sales year, Macintosh...
The Year of ChatGPT and Living Generatively
No human celebrating a first birthday is as verbose, knowledgeable, or prone to fabrication as ChatGPT, which is blowing out its first candle as I type...
Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, ‘Go Fuck Yourself’
Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a...
25-Year Lasagna, Special Ops Oatmeal, and the Survival Food Boom
Not all survival food is ready to eat. Some must be cooked in a pot over a source of heat, like offerings from My Patriot Supply,...
Here’s a New Plan to Rein In the Gilded Tech Bros
When I first heard in 2013 that Barack Obama had chosen Tom Wheeler to head the crucial tech regulator that is the US Federal Communications Commission,...
Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
It was meant to be a week for women in tech—but this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration was swamped by men who gate-crashed the event in search...