AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14
It's been 4 months since we've cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and the bullshit is coming in almost too fast to keep up with. But between a page full of awkward unicorns and a seeming slowdown in...
30 Apr 20251h
"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31
After "AI" stopped meaning anything, the hype salesmen moved on to "AI" "agents", those allegedly indefatigable assistants, allegedly capable of operating your software for you -- whether you need to ...
17 Apr 20251h 3min
Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17
Measuring your talk time? Counting your filler words? What about "analyzing" your "emotions"? Companies that push LLM technology to surveil and summarize video meetings are increasingly offering to (p...
2 Apr 20251h
The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03
Emily and Alex read a terrible book so you don't have to! Come for a quick overview of LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman's opus of magical thinking, 'Superagency: What could poss...
19 Mars 20251h
The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24
In the weeks since January 20, the US information ecosystem has been unraveling fast. (We're looking at you Denali, Gulf of Mexico, and every holiday celebrating people of color and queer people that ...
5 Mars 20251h
Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27
Sam Altman thinks fusion - particularly a company he's personally invested in - can provide the energy we "need" to develop AGI. Meanwhile, what if we just...put data centers on the Moon to save energ...
19 Feb 202546min
The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20
In January, the United Kingdom's new Labour Party prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced a new initiative to go all in on AI in the hopes of big economic returns, with a promise to “mainline” it into...
5 Feb 20251h 2min
Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
Not only is OpenAI's new o3 model allegedly breaking records for how close an LLM can get to the mythical "human-like thinking" of AGI, but Sam Altman has some, uh, reflections for us as he marks two ...
22 Jan 20251h 2min
