“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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It must be confusing — upsetting, even! — to hear that somebody is willing to accurately and vociferously tear into a tech industry largely controlled by people with no regard for their users or workers, who are willing to bathe their products in mediocrity all because it’s the thing that everybody else is doing.
I love you Ed
The heavy users of AI are even dumber than the CEOs, at least the CEOs are getting rich.
what infrastructure will the ai bubble leave behind when it collapses?
An understandable hatred and mistrust of Silicon Valley tech types and technology in general within people.
Fucking incompetent idiots
Google is a perfect example that the idea that capitalism is inherently efficient is an absurd fantasy.
Google represents an absolutely massive waste of talent and all of it is focused on making the world a markedly worse place.
24·2 months agoCan we stop repeating Anthropic’s fear mongering about AI? They are just trying to prop up their stock price and keep the bubble from popping a little longer.
Who cares anymore though? Microsoft burned all their bridges to places where the kinds of people who get excited about this kind of thing hang out. There is no button they can press to unburn those bridges and no gurantee, indeed little likelihood they can rebuild them when better bridges have been built to better places in the meantime.
Windows phone was great, what killed it was Microsoft’s clueless management.
I am shocked!
They could have at least have done a compromise where the company is Zoox and the vehicle is the anthellae, The Zoox Anthellae sounds kinda cool to me.
Aesthetically maybe, but that is a hollow fleeting sensation that is immediately suffocated by the fact that cars ruin cities no matter how “smart” they are.
yawn self driving cars are so boring, all they do is allow taxi companies to fire their drivers and treat their employees worse, how is this exciting? How is it futuristic? How does it improve and evolve cities?
AI is so dumb but at least we have Ed Zitron.
I propose a solution. Invest in unmanned surface vehicles to carry duplicates of mail and require every piece of mail sent to sailors to have a duplicate of which randomly is selected the actual copy of mail to send to the real navy ship. Collect duplicates of the mail and send it on unmanned surface vehicles to sail around and pretend to be navy ships while gathering surveillance data.
Then even if someone thinks they have planted a tracker on a ship successfully they will still be second guessing themselves over whether they are tracking the real ship or not.
35·3 months agoPeople who think War isn’t a Woman’s Business utterly confound me. Have you not met a woman? Have you not looked into the history of Feminism in the diversity of forms it has taken all over the world?
It is not for me to demand people go to war, rather my point is that the idea that Women aren’t fit for War is borderline delusional to me. Almost all of the hardest fighting, most practical, resilient human beings I have met in my life are women, I would be terrified to try to fight them on a battlefield and I am thankful most of them were good people.
The point really in the end though is nobody should have to go to war so russia should stop its illegal war and occupation of Ukraine.
In this absurd moment I am reminded of my favorite novel Ulysses and how Ezra Pound once declared the problem with publishing in english at the time was it wasn’t masculine enough… and then proceeded to be unable to find anyone but anarchist women who were brave and militant enough to publish James Joyce with their printing presses because they could not be beaten and intimidated out of doing so in the US like the men were. You point at these people and say “they are unfit for war!”. What are you crazy?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/women-behind-james-joyce-ulysses-180980398/
https://www.wttw.com/playlist/2026/02/12/margaret-anderson-biography-little-review-ulysses
https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/in-depth/peggys-friends/emma-goldman/
^ do you want to tell me Emma Goldman wasn’t a soldier…???
People became convinced social media equates to cigarettes somehow and they ate that distraction up so they didn’t have to confront how their quality of life collapsing is the real reason they are miserable.