Sitemap - 2025 - Metaphors Are Lies
Changes for the New Year and Independent Media
Sunday Good Reads for December 28th, 2025
It Did Not Start At Christmas: The Story of the Christmas Truce
Waymo's Traffic Light Failure is a Regulatory Failure
Are Our Children Learning to Bend to the Panopticon?
Are Our Tech Bros Learning to Be Psychos?
Sunday Good Reads for December 21st, 2025
The Podcast is Better: A Short Review of Scriptnotes
Corruption and the Problem of Donations
The Only Country Where This Regularly Happens
The Fault, Dear Brutus, Is Not In Our Lack of Ideas, But in Our Journalists ....
Sunday Good Reads for December 14th, 2025
Random Thoughts on PLUR1BUS and Thoughtful Arguments
Milton Friedman is Why Trump is About to Betray Ukraine
Business Should Not Be Allowed to Create Artificial General Intelligence
Sunday Good Reads for December 7th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: The Cult of Ambiguous Endings, or The Sopranos Blew It
The Geometry of Loss: A Short Review of Every Galaxy A Circle
Device Hoarding, AI, Oligarchs, Affordability, And The End of the American Economy
Imitative AI Limits, Human And Mathematical
My People Used To Be Not White
Sunday Good Read for November 30th, 2025
Unpopular Holiday Opinions To Fight With Your Family About
For the Millionth Time: Keep Imitative AI Away From Students
American Society Hates its Kids: Epstein, School Shootings, and Roblox
Sunday Good Reads for November 23, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Does Satire Work?
Maybe Voice is Just a Crappy Interface. Or Maybe Tech Firms Are Out of Ideas
The Chicago Blackhawks, Donald Trump, and Accountability
Sunday Good Reads for November 16, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Shot Out of a Canon
Goering Loved His Children, and Always Assume You Are Wrong Or You'll Be Noah Smith
OpenAI Should Face the Corporate Death Penalty
Maybe Fascists Do Get to Claim Symbols?
It's Time to Ban Algorithmic Social Media
Sunday Good Podcasts for November 9th, 2025
Space Data Centers, Bubbles, and the Failure of Reporting
The Monster Left Standing or Nobody Cares Only About Winning Elections
Sunday Good Reads for November 2nd, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: You Have to Like Art to Make Money From It
Imitative AI and the Replacement of Life
Privacy Rights Over Property Rights
Instagram, Eating Disorders, Friedman's BS, And Democratic Control of The Economy
Sunday Good Reads for October 26th, 2025
Mysticism in Your Science Fiction: A Short Review of Hole in the Sky
Imitative AI And Education Do Not Mix
No Kings, Imitative AI, and the Rightist Id
Sunday Good Reads for October 19th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Why Do You Think You Need Imitative AI to Brainstorm?
Columbus, America, and How We Melt Into the Pot
Imitative AI is Antithetical to Learning
Sunday Good Reads for October 12th, 2025
Where Are the Adults, Microsoft Edition
Why Does the Writer Ezra Klein Think His Job is Strategy?
Sunday Good Reads for October 5th, 2025
Failed Writers Journey: Tracking The Decline of Western Literature ... Sales
Dems Must Commit to Consequences
Little-d Democratic Control of the Economy, Anti-Trust and Power
Artificial General Intelligence and The Slaveholder Mentality
Sunday Good Reads for September 28th, 2025
Tylenol, Autism, and the Refusal to Admit You Are a Member of Society
H1B, Bad Programs, and Worse Solutions
Why Won't Democrats Impeach? Or The Coming Third Constitution
Sunday Good Reads for September 21st, 2025
Can't Anyone Here Play This Game? Dems and TikTok's Sale
Sunday Good Reads for September 14th, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Pre-textual Racial Profiling.
Imitative AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Gravity Well of Money in Politics
Sunday Good reads for September 7th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: The Literature Ballroom And The Death of SF
Google, Surrogacy, Bluesky, And Our Broken Elites
OpenAI as Narc or Accountability? What's That?
Are There Conspiracy Theories in an Autocracy?
Sunday Good Reads for August 31st, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Yes, GRRM Does Owe Fans; or Mutual Obligations
OpenAI Appears to be Selling the Bag O' Glass to Children
Argue the Point, Not the Person is Killing Democracy
How Can It Be Conscious If It Does Not Know of the World? Or The Press Sucks
Sunday Good Reads for August 24th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Star Trek Vs. Star Wars and Past Lives
Is Meta Based on Abusing Children? Or Lack of Accountability is Killing Us
Sunday Good Reads for August 17th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: It's Not the Muse's Fault
Someone Should Tell The Prof That Some @sshole is Making Stupid Arguments Under His Name
Ford, Imitative AI and the Failure of Capitalism
Maybe the Butlerian Jihad Wasn't Such a Bad Idea
Media Choices and The Damage Done
Sunday Good Reads for August 10th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Imitative AI and the Lack of Foresight.
Ban Imitative AI From Schools If You Want Kids to Learn
Sunday Good Reads for August 3rd, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: There's No Entertainment in Algorithms
Priority Command: A Short Review of Of Monsters and Mainframes
Why is it Okay to Block Spam but Not Abuse?
Vibing Our Way to Stupidity. Or Language is Not Intelligence. Or Turing Was Wrong
Trump's Imitative AI Plan and Authoritarian Politics
Sunday Good Reads for July 27th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Classics are Popular
Epstein and The Death of Accountability
Salary Caps and the Splitting of Labor
Mental Health, Imitative AI, and Accountability
Sunday Good Reads for July 20th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: There Will Always Be Gatekeepers
Alien Bugs and Cats and Baby Starships, Oh My: A Short Review of the Infinite Archive
Supreme Court Indicates Constitution No Longer In Effect
Sunday Good Reads for July 13th, 2025
AI Copyright Rulings: Bad Analogies Lead to Bad Law
The Problem With Mamdani Is He Might Succeed.
Screens Are Not The Problem Or What Ives Shows About Tech
Sunday Good Reads for July 6th, 2025
Sunday Good Reads for June 29th, 2025
If Your Kids Feel Bad About Being White, That's Your Fault
Imitative AI Liability and the Big, Beautiful Bill
It's Time to End the Presidency
Sunday Good Reads for June 22nd, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Imitative AI Will Make You A Worse Writer
Context, Or The Failure of Our Press
Abundance will Fail Because They Refuse to Think About Systems
Does Google Want the Web to Die?
Imitative AI Cannot Reason Demonstrating Futile Nature of Their Business
Sunday Good Reads for June 15th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Is Streaming Viable?
Relationship of Affection: A Short Review of The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
Dear David Portnoy: Respect Is Earned, Not Handed Out Like Candy At Halloween
L.A. Protests Are Not A Distraction
Imitative AI Should Want Schools To Ban It. That They Do Not is a Bad Sign.
Sunday Good Reads for June 8th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Should Evangelicalism Be Tied to Good Work?
Imitative AI Business Fraud And What It Means For Programming
Branding, AI, And The Death of Language
Yarvin Proves Billionaires a Societal Failing
Sunday Good Reads for June 1st, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: AI and the Algorithm
History Rhymes Badly: A Short Review of More Everything Forever
Imitative AI is Not Blackmailing You or Metaphors Really Are Lies
OpenAI and The Surveillance Future
Sunday Good Reads for May 25th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: You Can No Longer Sue Penguin Random House
Garbage is the Future of Work Imitative AI Promises
How Capitalism Ensured the Con of Effective Altruism
Imitative AI, Poor Performance, DOGE, and the Desperate Hope of a Human Free Workforce
Boer Grok, The Control of Information via Imitative AI, And An End to Algorithms
Sunday Good Reads for May 18th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: 36 Shows
The Cost of Imitative AI or Environmental Cope
Trump Fires Copyright Official For Standing Up To Imitative AI. And Tariff Implications
Andor and the Monsters Left Standing
Imitative AI and the Damage Done: The New Yorker Profiles Doomed Students
Sunday Good Reads for May 11th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: WorldCon, Imitative AI, and A Person-less Con
Sam Bennet, Paul Maurice, and the Collapse of Western Civilization
AI is Warping Humanity, But It's A Larger Problem
How DOGE Intends For You to Die This Week: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Imitative AI Not Realizing Promised Gains
Sunday Good Reads for May 4th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Random Opinions on Writing That Will Slightly Annoy People
"AI Can Replace Artists But It Cannot Replace Investing Because Investing is an Art"
How DOGE Intends For You To Die This Week: Milk
Poll Driven Action Is Really Contempt for Voters
Sunday Good Reads for April 27th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Be Not A Brand; or Branding Is Not Context Switching
Imitative AI and the Urge To Erase Humans
Vegetative Electron Microscopy, Imitative AI, And Trust
Musk Does Not Care if You Die As Long As He Gets Government Money
Sunday Good Reads for April 20th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Meta Thinks Its Legal to Steal Your Individual Dollars
A Witch On Every Corner: A Short Review of Cunning Folk
Imitative Artificial Intelligence in 2027: The Crash of Flight JBU1391
Is Imitative AI Making Worse Programmers?
Kafka Made From Silicon: Algorithm Banning Parole
Sunday Good Reads for April 13th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Ideas Are Not A Problem to Be Solved With Imitative AI
Shopify CEO Shows Imitative AI About Ideology Not Business
The Tariffs Are Not the Real Problem: The Lack of Systematic Thinking Is.
AI Tariffs Show the Real Use of Imitative AI: Buck Passing
Sunday Good Reads for April 6th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: The Death of NaNoWriMo
White Collar Crime is the Root of All Evil
DOGE Plan to Rebuild SSA Codebase Probably a Plan to Cut Social Security
Studio Ghibli and Sam Altman's Temper Tantrum
Sunday Good Reads for March 30, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: First Draft Done and Against Directors
Do 'Cozy' Stories Have To Come With Death And Horror?
Section 230 is Mostly Bad. But It Shouldn't Be Repealed
Is It Time To Close Journalism Schools?
How Imitative AI will Cut Your Social Security
Sunday Good Reads for March 23rd, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Meta's Theft of Books
Zuckerberg Will Hurt Anyone For Growth: A Review of Careless People
Resegregation is the Point, Part Two
Anger At Schumer Dems is Resisting Autocracy
Imitative AI Cannot Follow the News And Why This Indicates its End
Sunday Good Reads for March 16th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Meta, Censorship, and Impotent Rage
Championships Aren't the Only Reason to Watch Sports
Imitative AI is About Punishing Workers.
The Information Gap Or You Don't Have to Take Bad Faith Seriously
Trump is Winning and the Dems Need to Flip the Table.
Sunday Good Reads for March 9th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Art, Thinking, and Imitative AI
Technologists: Please Pay Attention to Social Systems
Dems, Trans Rights, and Lessons from Little Sh*t
Bullsh*t Wins When It's the Only Sh*t Around. Or The Information Environment is All
Sunday Good Reads for March 2nd, 2025
It's Time to Stop Venerating Businesspeople and Start Venerating Bureaucrats
The Immorality of Making Imitative AI
FTC Push for State Media Shows Progressives Need to Spend on Local Media
Why Do People Need Musk to Be a Genius?
Sunday Good Reads for February 23rd, 2025
Failed Writers Journey: Writing Good Good Guys
Biden and Obama Were More than Differences of Degree
Musk's Functional Stupidity Demonstrates Billionaires Are a Social Blight
Of Course You Should Sell Your Tesla If You Can or Tilting at Windmills
Anti-anti-Discrimination in Anti-AI Regulation
Sunday Good Reads for February 16, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: No E-books but Class War E-books
DOGE is All Corruption -- and It's Working
AI Commercials Highlight Class War at Heart of Imitative AI Push
A Small Detour into Communications Theory
Sunday Good Reads for February 9th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Do We Need Irony?
God Save Us from Fools Who Think They Are Savvy. Or David Axelrod And Musk are The Same Person
The Unwisdom of Silicon Valley. Or Read a Dman Book
Dems Need to Understand They Are In a New System
Trump Ends American Science Century and American Power
Sunday Good Reads for February 2nd, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Politics is Not Bad
I Do Not Feel Like a Cancer Survivor -- And That Is Probably a Good Thing. Or Fund the NIH/NFS
Does Capitalism Inevitably Lead to Fascism?
Imitative AI Doesn't Need to Be an Environmental Disaster. Maybe. Or Regulation and Incentives Work
Reid Hoffman Wants All your Intimate Details in Order to Have AI Paint you Broccoli
Sunday Good Reads for January 26th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Writers Need a Hall of Fame
Trump Shuts Down Medical Research via NIH
I'm Supposed to Have an Opinion on TikTok, Not the Lawlessness of Trump
Tech Billionaire Tears and Kidnapped Kids
Sunday Good Reads for January 19th, 2025
Failed Writers Journey: Gaiman, Lynch, Uecker: It is Better to be Kind
Does Fiction Have Power: A Short Review of Dangerous Fictions
The Whole System Is Important or Carbon Capture to Drill Oil
Imitative AI Is Not a Viable Business or Capitalism Is Not Rational
Sunday Good Reads for January 12th, 2025
Failed Writer's Journey: Art in a Time of Tropes
"Open the Dishwasher Door, HAL." Why Does Imitative AI Need to Be In Everything?
Sunday Good Reads for January 5th, 2025