Gary Rivlin
@grivlin.bsky.social
AI VALLEY and the race to cash in on AI. To buy: https://bit.ly/3OOPZEB. Ex-NYTimes, ex-Wired, ex-alt weekly editor. 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Panama Papers
We? Other places in the world, yes. But in the U.S., it's the opposite story. We're staring down a crisis give given benighted energy policies. Electricity prices up 40% since Feb 2020, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts projecting steeper rises as more (and more) data centers come online
November 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We? Other places in the world, yes. But in the U.S., it's the opposite story. We're staring down a crisis give given benighted energy policies. Electricity prices up 40% since Feb 2020, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts projecting steeper rises as more (and more) data centers come online
I know, right? Even Hoffman thinks there’s too much Reid Hoffman in the book. But I needed a narrative spine—and he went from 1980s Stanford AI nerd to original OpenAI investor to cofounder of an EQ-over-IQ AI firm (key to the future, if'n you ask me)— so hard not to follow him around
July 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I know, right? Even Hoffman thinks there’s too much Reid Hoffman in the book. But I needed a narrative spine—and he went from 1980s Stanford AI nerd to original OpenAI investor to cofounder of an EQ-over-IQ AI firm (key to the future, if'n you ask me)— so hard not to follow him around
to me enshitification is a company compromising the quality of the product in pursuit of ever-more profit, w/Google search as its poster child. Trying to squeeze more money for less sounds more like plain old customer fuckery. Profit-maximizing fuckery? Platform fuck-you-ization? Defuckification?
July 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
to me enshitification is a company compromising the quality of the product in pursuit of ever-more profit, w/Google search as its poster child. Trying to squeeze more money for less sounds more like plain old customer fuckery. Profit-maximizing fuckery? Platform fuck-you-ization? Defuckification?