Today's links Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI": How to be a better AI critic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Douglas Adams; R2-trashcan; EFF
If Byron Allen shows up at your door, you did something wrong with your media business. And BuzzFeed has a visitor. Also: I built a thing. I have written quite a few times over the years about Byron
An expansion pack for my NYT story on the "permanent underclass"
Can you beat it?
Today's links Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm: AGI works best in a K-hole. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Woz's remotes; Furbeowulf
A closer look at the wafer-scale architecture, the OpenAI deal, and four design vectors that decide if Cerebras can deploy at scale
Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission
Moloch the stunned governments! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery!
Today's links A fascist paradigm: The change that changed everything. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Openstreetmap x Isle of Wight; Found grocery lists; Mayor wants to pra
Avoid the latest AI-induced disease
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Today's links 2024 (apart from the obvious): Some unforced errors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Denmark legalizing music trading; Babysuit; Patent Office invites "peer r
Breaking down what METR’s latest “time horizon” graph does and does not show
No.402 — AI learns language from skewed sources ⊗ We can always do something about the future ⊗ The hidden Sungemite archipelago ⊗ Where Europe’s population is shrinking ⊗ Rogue One: The Andor Cut
Today's links Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox: You can keep billionaires happy, or you can fight the cost of living crisis, but not both. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object per
This Week in Chips: Every eating everyone's lunch.
A rich new series by Elizabeth Maher seeds an extended universe around T.R.O.(L.L.), awarded in our Building and Burning Bridges protocol fiction contest
Originalism is the theory that the Federalist Society knows what it wants, and deserves to get it good and hard.
Supreme court's Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ “They had to fudge how they’re calculating the turnout rate to get there, and they’re not even taking into account margin o
Remember that MIT study that showed that the ROI for generative AI wasn’t really there for most businesses?
Today's links Lee Lai's "Cannon": A beautiful, subtle, long-lingering tale of duty, sex, and working for a shitty restaurant boss. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Ebay payi
You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV. Sometimes new music but often ones I know really well. Music videos are such a
We lost Ted Turner, a patron saint of Tedium, just as an entrepreneur made an audacious Turner-style bet. What can we learn from that? This week, word came out that the CEO of a name-brand, heavily m
Sign of things to come?
The AI race has been tilted in favor of Anthropic
John Roberts issues warning on Supreme Court overruling precedent Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts said at a Wednesday judicial conference that the Supreme Court must be cautious about ove
When facing dilemmas, AI needs “moral competence”
Today's links Bubbles are REALLY evil: Bernie Ebbers got what was coming to him. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Mozilla v DHS wiretaps; Judge v FCC's internet wiretaps; Fo
The state of AI in Q2 2026, part 1
It will end really well or really badly
The physics forcing the 800V transition, conversion architectures that follow from it, and the power semiconductor sockets that emerge
Today's links In praise of vultures: They screw you because they can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Linus v MSFT; Argentina v MSFT; Danny Hillis on theme parks v games; S
Two perspectives on what’s transpired so far
The Protocol Institute collaborates with the Long Now Foundation on three participatory, cross-disciplinary labs – applications are due June 5!
Sorry to use a technical term in the title
Today's links The three armies fighting for the post-American world: Hippies, investors and hawks. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: NK dictator's son v Tokyo Disneyland; Mai
Don’t fall for the tool sprawl trap
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