James Meek (@jamesmeek.bsky.social) offers the refreshingly contrarian idea that artificial superintelligence could be too benevolent for its techbro slavedrivers. It has always been clear to me that capitalists expect AI to behave like a capitalist.

Techbros think a superintelligent computer will resemble an omniscient capitalist. Actually, it will need therapy.

The canon of televised British satire: Peter Cook, Chris Morris, Peter Serafinowicz.

*visibly on the edge of total nervous breakdown*

hell yeah cash money baby

People who grew up reading MAD Magazine now read @economist.com.

I've become fascinated by Janan Ganesh's niche at the @financialtimes.com, which is to extol individualist hedonism and apolitical cosmopolitanism through the persona of a professional braggart.

𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘥, 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥: 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥

It's always a treat when a new Jonathan Meades essay in the @lrb.co.uk sends one to the OED, to no avail.

#tampophiliac

I want silos, silos, and more silos.

Nation of Language is like Gary Numan if he could write music.

Quinn Slobodian on his refusal to debate Curtis Yarvin: "Yarvin is a snob who craves elite validation."

Why in the world is everybody interviewing Ross Douthat nowadays?

email jobs are a triumph of human civilization and your ancestors schemed, bribed and murdered to get the pre-modern equivalent whenever they could.

Tapping the sign.

The big lesson of the last 50 years is that cynicism benefits authoritarians. As such, if liberals are ever able to regain power, we should prioritize restoring trust in institutions. The best way to do this is to mete out extremely harsh punishments against powerful people who abused this trust.