Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
…But, in the quiet moments, everyone is asking the same question: Is this a grift? Sure enough, the Games are barely over before internet sleuths begin questioning the validity of Gkolomeev’s…
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We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings
…The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about…
Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable
…Which has got to raise some sort of question. And now, Recess. Shot: Two weeks ago, before the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs face off in the NBA finals…
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire?
…There’s way more in this one — Jack came fired up for the Decoder questions, and we spent some real time talking about his approach to how meetings feel, something you just…
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…There isn’t much publicly available footage of me speaking Spanish — the language I use to communicate with my parents — aside from a single podcast interview from 2021, most of which is…
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…I don’t want to foreclose on the possibility that AI could be a communicative act. It’s a very fact intensive question, and it’s tied into these questions of aesthetics…
Speech and Moderation
…At the same time, the hard questions of moderation are only getting harder. X is fighting Andrew Tate’s attempt to unmask his critics Lauren Feiner May 15 Trump administration defends right…
Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears
…Sophie always speaks after a long pause, in tight blocks of text that are always roughly the same length, starting with an acknowledgement and ending with a question about which capability it…
ChatGPT and Gemini apps are coming for your PC
…Fear No Man. * The lovely reminder of who we can be in the story of how humanity saved the ginkgo. Crowdsourced Here’s what the Installer community is into this week. I…
A better way to manage all your screenshots
…This new one asks a very good and timely question: Is it possible to be successful without compromising all your morals and values? Ries says yes, and boy I hope he’s…