Sitemap - 2023 - Metaphors Are Lies
Sunday Good Reads for December 31st, 2023
Your Ancestors Were Jerks. So What?
Apple Won and Google Lost Because of the Corruption of the Judiciary
12 Songs of Christmas, BONUS: Worst Christmas Song Ever - Christmas Shoes
12 Songs of Christmas: Happy Xmas
Sunday Good Reads for December 24th, 2023
12 Songs of Christmas: Just Like Christmas
12 Songs of Christmas: Snoopy's Christmas
Pump the Brakes on the Waymo Safety Data
12 Songs of Christmas: St. Stephen's Day Murders
12 Songs of Christmas: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Is It Time to Consider Banning Certain Driver Assist Systems and Self-Driving Cars?
12 Songs of Christmas: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
You Can't Yell Fire in a Crowded Social Media Platform
12 Songs of Christmas: Little Drummer Boy
Sunday Good Reads for December 17th, 2023
12 Songs of Christmas: Silent Night
12 Songs of Christmas: I Saw Three Ships
12 Songs of Christmas: Elf's Lament
12 Songs of Christmas: Fairytale of New York
One Overstressed Programmer in Illinois: A Review of The Ransomware Hunting Team
AI as a Backdoor Offshoring of Service Jobs
Sunday Good Reads for December 10th, 2023
RTBs, Stalking, and the Value of Early Regulation
Instagram, Child Endangerment, and the Problems with Section 230
It's Monday. Let's Save Ourselves from the Business of Tech
Sunday Good Reads for December 3rd, 2023
Meatballs, Worms, NASA, Joy and the Public Sphere
Fine Are Just a Cost: C Suite Executives Need to Start Going to Jail
Facial Recognition and Police: The Triumph of Data over Expertise
Artificial General Intelligence and the Disconnect from Reality
Sunday Good Reads, November 26th, 2023
ChatGPT Firing and Insurance Rejections Show Problem with Imitative AI Discourse
Sunday Good Reads for November 19, 2023
Hackers and Justice. Or Second Chances Shouldn't Depend on Luck
The Purpose of the Algorithm is Obscuring Accountability: Facial Recognition and the Police
Sunday Good Reads for November 12th, 2023
Regulations Keep AI Companies From Killing Your Children
AI Training Data Should Not Be Fair Use
Health Care AI Bias Shows AI Privileges Data over Expertise
Sunday Good Reads for November 5th, 2023
The Subtle Sexism of AI and STEM Expectations
Why Has Zuckerberg Not Been Charged With Human Rights Crimes?
Capitalism Cannot Save the Internet
Sunday Good Reads for October 29th, 2023
It Is Not Your Duty to Lay Down and Die: A Review of Blood in the Machine
You Are the Guinea Pig, Not Just the Product
The Two Naomis, Liberals, Leftists, and Killing Mockingbirds
There is No "Tech" to be Optimistic About
Sunday Good Reads for October 22nd, 2023
The Classics are Just Books, Meant to Be Read First
Sunday Good Reads for October 15th, 2023
The NHL Wants to Be For Bigots, Not Everyone
The Future of AI Assistants is Lies for Free, Money for Truth
The Moral Culpability of Tesla
Historical Fiction vs. Fantasy. Or Let the Good Folks Win for Once
Sunday Good Reads for October 8th, 2023
AI Exacerbates Garbage In, Garbage Out
Did WGA Contract Derail Imitative AI Business Model?
The Problem with AI Art Isn't the AI, It's What the Art Does to Society
Sunday Good Reads for October 1st, 2023
Should Short Selling Be Banned: A Review of Money Men
AI "Art" Is Not Like Photography
Sunday Good Reads for September 24th, 2023
There's No Crying in AI Regulation
The Writing Life's Discontents: A Review of End Credits by Patty Lin
Magic Toasters and You: UK Flubs AI Regulations
Death and Crypto Lies: A Review of Number Go Up
Sunday Good Reads for September 17, 2023
America Has No Bottom. Or Why It's So Hard for the Media to Call Trump A Loser.
The EFF and the Fantasy of the Marketplace of Ideas
Amazon Apparently Deliberately Destroyed Genre Magazines to Enrich Itself
Sunday Good Reads for September 10th, 2023
Hello World, McGuffins, and Little Wooden Bridges
Technology as a Salve for Society's Gun Problem
Are Self Driving Cars Murder Bots? Or The Problem With Just Asking Questions
Sunday Good Reads, September 3rd, 2023
Women's Pro Hockey and The Ghost of the ABL
Messaging and Trump, or the Value of Words
Sunday Good Reads, August 27th 2023
AI and the Avoidance of Accountability
Not Everything Is A Tech Problem, Part a Gillion
Sunday Good Reads for August 20th, 2023
No Technological Promised Land: A Review of Progress and Promise
Sunday Good Reads for August 13, 2023
Dear Fellow Tech Nerds Please Stop Being Stupid; Or Not Everything Is Meaningfully Measurable
What Happens When There is No More Training Data? The Potential End of Brute Force AI.
Sunday Good Reads for August 6th, 2023
Watch What They Do: A.I. Community Seems to Really Dislike Artists
Humanities vs. STEM. Again. Enough.
Sunday Good Reads for July 30, 2023
Torn Photos and Rage: What Sinead O'Connor Taught Me
Rocky Wirtz, Leadership, and the Death of Accountability
Capital Risks Nothing Compared to Labor
Nuremberg Eggs and The Meaning of Time
Biden Admin AI Regs Show US Disfunction
Sunday Good Reads for July 23, 2023
Telephone Switch Automation Not the Happy Story Vox Wants It to Be.
On the Quasi-Problems with Data, AI, Publishing and The Way Forward
The Banality of Judicial Corruption
Sunday Good Reads for July 16th, 2023
A Brief Writing Life Interlude: On Not Getting an Agent
Of Course Threads Will Be Political -- It Just Will Be Biased in Favor of the Status Quo
Our Algorithmically Stupid Future
V.C. Bros Re-Discover A.I. Cannot Write
Sunday Good Reads for July 9th, 2023
Titan Sub Disaster Highlights Everything Wrong with America
Social Media Sites are Products
The Value of the United States
Sunday Good Reads for July 2nd, 2023
The Market Doesn't Always Know Best
Or You Could Just Make Search Useful Again
Sunday Good Reads for June 25th, 2003
OpenAI Does Not Believe General AI is a Real Threat
Rogan and RFK Jr. Have Already Lost the Debate
Reaction and Contempt in Tech and Business
Sunday Good Reads for June 18th, 2023
AI Discrimination is a Larger Concern than AI Caused Extinction
Apple VR Continues Trend in Isolation Tech
Why Does All The AI Write Instead of Doing Something Useful?
AI Hype is the Dot.com Bubble, not the Crypto Bubble
Sunday Good Reads for June 11th, 2023
Sunday Good Reads for June 4th, 2023
Fascism is As American as Apple Pie: A Review of Fever in the Heartland
WGA Strike and Efficiently Burning Our Economic Future
Center for AI Safety Statement is BS
OpenAI Acts As If They Are Thieves
Generative AI Won't Cure Your Cold
Good reads for Sunday May 28th
Technology is Not Going to Save Us
Book Bans, Parental Rights, and the Heckler's Veto
Can Democracy Survive Meritocracy?
Nice is Nice: A Review of Legends and Lattes
America Is Broken: No Accountability for Telcom Corps
There's A Lot of Human in Your Artificial Intelligence
Sunday Good Reads for May 14th, 2023
MS Exec Ignores AI Harm to Avoid Regulation, Or Why the Cassandras Are Right
Is Google AI About to Destroy the Web?
Are Mass Shootings As Much About Ideology as Mental Health?
Elizabeth Holmes, Whiny Right-Wing Academics, the NY Times, and Our Broken Elite Culture
The Marshmallow Test is BS: A Review of Escape From Model Land
Hopelessness, Art, and Society
Tucker Carlson, US Imperial Power, and the Enemy of My Enemy
It's Hard to See In The Pale Moonlight
It's Okay Not to be Notable: Or, Conservatives, Please Stop Whining about Twitter Checkmarks
Substack Notes and the Nazi Bar Problem
A Handful of Thoughts on Where AI Learned to Speak: From Business, Racists, and Thieves
A Third Wave or a Ripple? Is Using Tech's Tools against Reaction Possible?
You Really Can't Breathe: A Review of the Excellent Chokepoint Capitalism
Profiles in Confusion: Sanderson and the Writers who Write About Him
You Can't Internet Harder to Solve this Problem: TikTok Ban Not About Open Internet
No, Chat Bots Are Not Sentient
The Last of Us Ending Didn't Earn the Controversy
Let the Story Breath: A Review of Terraformers By Annalee Newitz
Internet of Garbage: Are Chat Bots About to Destroy Online Communications?
Why Artificial Intelligence: The Good, The Bad, and the Weird
OpenAI is Building a Disinformation Machine
Regulating AI, Or Things Don't Have to Be This Way Just Because They Are This Way
The Hardcore Scene and Hope Among the Algorithms
Harvard's Women's Ice Hockey and the Myth of the Assh*le Coach
Stable Diffusion AI is a Thieving Thief Who Thieves
AI is Not Meant to Help, and Won't Be Real
Fights Over Generative AI Matter Because Capitalism is Broken
Man Beats Machine at Go: There is No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence
European Proto-Industry and Why Microsoft Should Not Be Allowed to Buy Activision
Google's New "Privacy" Measures Again Show Why Personalized Ads Should Be Banned
Vanilla and Chocolate: A Review of Beyond the Burn Line
It Hasn't Always Been This Way: A Review of The Dawn of Everything
The Future of Search is Here, and Its Going to Lie to You
The End of Evolution? A Review of Village in the Sky
Neoliberalism, Effective Altruism, and the Things Fish Have No Words For
It's Okay the Tell the Truth About the Dead: Or Bobby Hull Sucked
Women, Contracts, Dowries, Murder, and Survival in Early Modern Germany.
Debugging Your Life or How Not to be Matt Tabbi
Words Matter: Physical Attacks Track Increase in Twitter Hate Speech
Humanities Will Not Save Education
Apple Just Ended Audio Book Narration Jobs