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Brown Stage Capitalism
Everything is getting worse. Cory Doctorow gave it a name three years ago: enshittification. Now he has written the best business book of the year, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. It will help you understand many things,...
Perplexity: From Searches To Answers
This is a love letter about my latest crush. I want you to try Perplexity when you look for information online. It’s my new best friend. It represents some important changes in...
The Edge Of Annoyance: Microsoft Hijacks Outlook Links
Microsoft added a setting to Outlook to open web links in the Edge browser, even if you’ve set Chrome as your default browser. This is not a recent change. You may have already...
How Philip K Dick’s Estate Found A Loophole In A Shoebox
I have a limited edition of Philip K Dick’s novel In Milton Lumky Territory with the legendary author’s signature on the first page. Only 50 copies were signed and bound with the...
Xreal One & The Future Of AR Glasses
I’m watching Love Death + Robots on a 191” screen hanging in the air four feet in front of me. That’s about the same size as an IMAX screen when you’re sitting in the middle of...
Decoding AI Hysteria: Hallucinations, Laziness, & Corruption
This is a story about lawyers and moronicans, laziness and greed, and why blame for bad AI results should frequently rest with people, not technology. You should be skeptical...
Jolly Tales & Funny Pictures By Mark Twain
Mark Twain fled to Berlin in 1891 with his wife and three little daughters. He had earned a great deal of money from Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and his other writing and...
AI And The Gabbling Foreigner Illusion
Foreigners sure talk fast, don’t they? When you listen to someone speaking a foreign language, you’re sure they’re speaking very quickly, far faster than you speak in your more...
AI Slop And The Enshittification Of Everything
I’ve written about how AI is great and AI research will change the world and you should use it to plan your trips, while cheerleaders kick up their heels and wave their pom poms,...
Zero Click Searches & Google AI Mode
AI is taking over online searches. At the moment, that’s good news - the AI summaries are increasingly reliable and helpful. In the long term, they might be so good that...
From Waistline to Wallet: Weight Loss Drugs Will Slim Down Impulse Spending
Weight loss drugs effectively regulate impulse control - and the effects go far beyond snack food. Our economy is built on impulse purchases. The secondary effects of GLP-1 drugs...
A Trip Down The Rabbit Hole: Notes On Collecting Lewis Carroll
We’re going to dive down a rabbit hole into the world of collecting Lewis Carroll books. You know the phrase “going down a rabbit hole” comes from Alice In Wonderland, right?...
The History Of The Snark: Notes On Lewis Carroll
On July 18, 1874, Lewis Carroll was on a morning walk when a sentence popped into his head: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.” That thought led to one of the greatest works...
Legal Research? There’s An Algorithm For That
Breaking news: Artificial intelligence is going to reshape the legal industry again, for the first time. Way back in 2011, the New York Times looked at the advent of e-discovery...
The Unseen Battlefield: Gazing Into The Cybersecurity Abyss
It’s difficult to keep up with the news this year. Oh, you noticed? I wouldn’t blame you if you’ve given yourself permission to detach from daily updates about the world as a way...
21st-Century Picks and Shovels: Microsoft’s AI Strategy for Businesses
In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that...