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Let's not overregulate the doomsday machine we wouldn't want to stifle innovation
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Let's not overregulate the doomsday machine we wouldn't want to stifle innovation
We should abolish the senate and have a unicameral legislature of proportional representation, and also have the ability to hold recall elections.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We should abolish the senate and have a unicameral legislature of proportional representation, and also have the ability to hold recall elections.
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EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. STOP OBEYING IN ADVANCE
May 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. STOP OBEYING IN ADVANCE
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Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.
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OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years
Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with analyst Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capa...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.
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I've never met Heidi. Anyone who thinks AI can do anything with words should read this, and understand that AI doesn't.
Only a human could write this.
If you value words, if you value understanding, if you value humans in all their messy glory, read this, share, and chip in if you can.
Only a human could write this.
If you value words, if you value understanding, if you value humans in all their messy glory, read this, share, and chip in if you can.
My friend and industry colleague Heidi has received the devastating news that her partner can no longer fight off his cancer and must go into hospice. She will lose him soon and she is a good person who has already lost so much. Please consider helping her defray the costs and survive the aftermath.
Donate to Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story, organized by Heidi McDonald
I was a game writer at the height of my career - author, freq… Heidi McDonald needs your support for Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story
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September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I've never met Heidi. Anyone who thinks AI can do anything with words should read this, and understand that AI doesn't.
Only a human could write this.
If you value words, if you value understanding, if you value humans in all their messy glory, read this, share, and chip in if you can.
Only a human could write this.
If you value words, if you value understanding, if you value humans in all their messy glory, read this, share, and chip in if you can.
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You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops?
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
September 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops?
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
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Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future.
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How To Argue With An AI Booster
Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
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If I see these videos I tell YouTube to stop recommending these channels to me. Not sure if it helps, but we all have limited options.
People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.
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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
www.404media.co
September 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If I see these videos I tell YouTube to stop recommending these channels to me. Not sure if it helps, but we all have limited options.
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Exclusive premium newsletter: I have the details on how GPT-5 works. OpenAI's new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for the company to cache the static prompt for any model or tool it uses every single prompt, doubling token burn for mediocre gains.
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How Does GPT-5 Work?
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August 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Exclusive premium newsletter: I have the details on how GPT-5 works. OpenAI's new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for the company to cache the static prompt for any model or tool it uses every single prompt, doubling token burn for mediocre gains.
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Did Somebody Say JEFFREY EPSTEIN?
How’s that Epstein Files coverup going?
www.wonkette.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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…Oh. I'm about to have to draw some real hard lines at work, aren't i?
Literally— *LITERALLY*— the crux of all of my research is about investigating what happens when all technologies, especially "AI", are built by and centering the most marginalized, first, instead of as an afterthought if at all.
Literally— *LITERALLY*— the crux of all of my research is about investigating what happens when all technologies, especially "AI", are built by and centering the most marginalized, first, instead of as an afterthought if at all.
Combatting AI 'wokeness' has become official federal policy.
What does this mean for AI companies? Perhaps spinning out 'woke' versions of chatbots to land lucrative federal contracts.
"The AI industry is deeply concerned about this situation."
www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...
What does this mean for AI companies? Perhaps spinning out 'woke' versions of chatbots to land lucrative federal contracts.
"The AI industry is deeply concerned about this situation."
www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...
Trump's new AI policies keep culture war focus on tech companies
A new executive order instructs tech companies to address what the White House sees as "woke AI." Receiving future federal contracts could hinge on whether AI firms respond.
www.npr.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
…Oh. I'm about to have to draw some real hard lines at work, aren't i?
Literally— *LITERALLY*— the crux of all of my research is about investigating what happens when all technologies, especially "AI", are built by and centering the most marginalized, first, instead of as an afterthought if at all.
Literally— *LITERALLY*— the crux of all of my research is about investigating what happens when all technologies, especially "AI", are built by and centering the most marginalized, first, instead of as an afterthought if at all.
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Hello Friends! @blacktranstexas.bsky.social needs our help. The last thing a shelter for trans people needs - during Pride, no less - is to have their electricity shut off.
Please, if you can, consider donating. And I will send a FREE signed copy of my memoir to whomever makes the biggest donation!
Please, if you can, consider donating. And I will send a FREE signed copy of my memoir to whomever makes the biggest donation!
June 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hello Friends! @blacktranstexas.bsky.social needs our help. The last thing a shelter for trans people needs - during Pride, no less - is to have their electricity shut off.
Please, if you can, consider donating. And I will send a FREE signed copy of my memoir to whomever makes the biggest donation!
Please, if you can, consider donating. And I will send a FREE signed copy of my memoir to whomever makes the biggest donation!
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A while back I mentioned I helped to build a government AI tool. DOGE "deleted" (fired) my whole org (@alt18f.bsky.social) and took the tool to become their "AI-first strategy."
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A while back I mentioned I helped to build a government AI tool. DOGE "deleted" (fired) my whole org (@alt18f.bsky.social) and took the tool to become their "AI-first strategy."
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵
My father was Jewish and the lesson I took from what happened to my distant relatives back in Europe was that never again means we should do everything we can to prevent this from happening to anyone. Words are truly inadequate to express the sheer disgust, anger, and shame I feel seeing this.
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My father was Jewish and the lesson I took from what happened to my distant relatives back in Europe was that never again means we should do everything we can to prevent this from happening to anyone. Words are truly inadequate to express the sheer disgust, anger, and shame I feel seeing this.
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Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
March 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.