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AI Is A Money Trap
AI Is A Money Trap
In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that
·wheresyoured.at·
AI Is A Money Trap
August 5, 2025: surviving enshittification
August 5, 2025: surviving enshittification
Everyone’s offering their thoughts on enshittification these days. I notice this phenomenon…seems like there are conversations that go on which I tap into for a bit before the move alon…
·chriscorrigan.com·
August 5, 2025: surviving enshittification
On Additive and Extractive Technologies - Cal Newport
On Additive and Extractive Technologies - Cal Newport
A reader recently sent me ​a Substack post​ they thought I might like. “I bought my kids an old-school phone to keep smartphones out of ... Read more
·calnewport.com·
On Additive and Extractive Technologies - Cal Newport
When Anti-Star Trek Meets Brazil
When Anti-Star Trek Meets Brazil
Roxanne Shirazi, a librarian at CUNY, recently commented on the AI hype in her field: I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library. And yet this entire team was dedicated...
·c4ss.org·
When Anti-Star Trek Meets Brazil
Small repairs
Small repairs
Drinking Sunday coffee in the hyper-normal
·werd.io·
Small repairs
The Sun Is Rising
The Sun Is Rising
But Today Doesn't Feel Like Yesterday
·notesfromthecircus.com·
The Sun Is Rising
CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i. Cosmos posted an articl…
·pivot-to-ai.com·
CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
Network tokens, the payment tech you've never heard of
Network tokens, the payment tech you've never heard of
I very rarely talk about payments on this blog, but every once in a while I get to talk about something I think might be interesting: network tokens! Who has my card number? Many years ago, merchants selling products online and in person were handling your card details directly. That
·birchtree.me·
Network tokens, the payment tech you've never heard of
The Fulcrum of the Gaslight
The Fulcrum of the Gaslight
Why False Equivalence Is One of Democracy’s Most Dangerous Lies
·notesfromthecircus.com·
The Fulcrum of the Gaslight
How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make?
How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make?
Hello and welcome to the latest premium edition of Where's Your Ed At, I appreciate any and all of your subscriptions. I work very hard on these, and they help pay for the costs of running Ghost and, well, my time investigating different things. If you're on the fence, subscribe!
·wheresyoured.at·
How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make?
Paradox of ambient intelligence: between certainty and shadows
Paradox of ambient intelligence: between certainty and shadows
Weeknotes 350 - Can AI truly perform critical thinking as it does not have a clue? How to bring in humbleness through our own interactions? This and more from last week's news on human-AI-thing collabs.
·target-is-new.ghost.io·
Paradox of ambient intelligence: between certainty and shadows
How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back.
·wired.com·
How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
A 500-Kilogram Metal Ring Plummeted Over Kenya, Confirming Long-Held Suspicions - Paris 2018 News
A 500-Kilogram Metal Ring Plummeted Over Kenya, Confirming Long-Held Suspicions - Paris 2018 News
On December 30, 2024, a stunning event captured the attention of both locals and space experts when a massive metal ring crashed from the sky into a Kenyan village southeast of Nairobi. The 2.5-meter diameter object, weighing approximately 500 kilograms, landed in a field without causing injuries but immediately sparked…
·paris2018.com·
A 500-Kilogram Metal Ring Plummeted Over Kenya, Confirming Long-Held Suspicions - Paris 2018 News