Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
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https://adam-rogers.net
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Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Here’s my booze book:
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And here’s my color book:
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bookshop.org/p/books/proo...
And here’s my color book:
bookshop.org/p/books/full...
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There are a lot of analogies that are wrong, but “whaling is like VC” is like, top ten*
*for me, personally, a historian from New England who writes about the history of maritime commerce
*for me, personally, a historian from New England who writes about the history of maritime commerce
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
There are a lot of analogies that are wrong, but “whaling is like VC” is like, top ten*
*for me, personally, a historian from New England who writes about the history of maritime commerce
*for me, personally, a historian from New England who writes about the history of maritime commerce
Put on the new Witcher and my wife said “what is this, Reacher?” And, you know, she makes a good point.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Put on the new Witcher and my wife said “what is this, Reacher?” And, you know, she makes a good point.
Right also if you want all of the books you read to have “alpha,” you are literally doing it wrong.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Right also if you want all of the books you read to have “alpha,” you are literally doing it wrong.
And yes I am also still mad about the time that Altman said that people had figured out the elements that made a story “good” and so an LLM could just make them now.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
And yes I am also still mad about the time that Altman said that people had figured out the elements that made a story “good” and so an LLM could just make them now.
This isn’t true and it *should be*.
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This isn’t true and it *should be*.
Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.
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It's incredibly frustrating how much time we waste debating things like the Sisko Agreements and the details of the Romulan detente while ignoring the life-changing work that hundreds of thousands of Federation bureaucrats show up and do EVERY DAY, without applause or acclamation.
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It's incredibly frustrating how much time we waste debating things like the Sisko Agreements and the details of the Romulan detente while ignoring the life-changing work that hundreds of thousands of Federation bureaucrats show up and do EVERY DAY, without applause or acclamation.
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I'm not an Alan Moore purist and I actually quite like the film adaptation (two minor quibbles aside). I could see this working although I have to say the film has aged very well and works better now than it did when it was released. Also hard to top Hugo Weaving and Stephen Rea's performances
A ‘V FOR VENDETTA’ series is in the works at HBO.
Pete Jackson is attached to write the series with James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios as executive producers.
Source: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Pete Jackson is attached to write the series with James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios as executive producers.
Source: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm not an Alan Moore purist and I actually quite like the film adaptation (two minor quibbles aside). I could see this working although I have to say the film has aged very well and works better now than it did when it was released. Also hard to top Hugo Weaving and Stephen Rea's performances
For years I’ve been saying, haven’t these tech guys seen one sci-fi movie or read one sci-fi book? And it turns out they *haven’t*? I was joking!
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
For years I’ve been saying, haven’t these tech guys seen one sci-fi movie or read one sci-fi book? And it turns out they *haven’t*? I was joking!
My (very good) hyperlocal news outlet just announced it will no longer allow comments below stories, in part because 80% of comments came from the same 0.15% of readers. And they weren't the friendly ones.
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Goodbye to our comment section
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November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My (very good) hyperlocal news outlet just announced it will no longer allow comments below stories, in part because 80% of comments came from the same 0.15% of readers. And they weren't the friendly ones.
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We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
The people who financialized (and then destroyed) the housing market in the mid 2000s did not care about building homes. Similarly this kind of sweaty shell game makes me very suspicious of the AI sales pitch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Debt Has Entered the A.I. Boom
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The people who financialized (and then destroyed) the housing market in the mid 2000s did not care about building homes. Similarly this kind of sweaty shell game makes me very suspicious of the AI sales pitch.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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democrats winning would cut into their fundraising
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
democrats winning would cut into their fundraising
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From the cautionary tale Rollerball (1975)
reel-librarians.com/2017/02/01/r...
reel-librarians.com/2017/02/01/r...
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
From the cautionary tale Rollerball (1975)
reel-librarians.com/2017/02/01/r...
reel-librarians.com/2017/02/01/r...
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What if — instead of building more homes near jobs — we structure loans so more interest goes to lenders and force homebuyers to work full time longer?
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What if — instead of building more homes near jobs — we structure loans so more interest goes to lenders and force homebuyers to work full time longer?
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Sharon was, to my great benefit, my boss, teacher, and mentor. And goddamn could she write. This lede!
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sharon was, to my great benefit, my boss, teacher, and mentor. And goddamn could she write. This lede!
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While we can reminisce about "delightful dinners," I can tell you that encountering Watson and being trapped by him or sideswiped by his racism in this culture of silence was hell for anyone who was different. OUR dinners were in the basement apartments in CSH (all grads can afford), trying to...
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
While we can reminisce about "delightful dinners," I can tell you that encountering Watson and being trapped by him or sideswiped by his racism in this culture of silence was hell for anyone who was different. OUR dinners were in the basement apartments in CSH (all grads can afford), trying to...
At one of my recent places of employment I was instructed not to link to anything other than that place’s own articles, because that was one of the criteria by which Google assesses the quality of a site—if you have to link out, how good could you be? Contravened the basic idea of the web.
One of the things I learned teaching search literacy is that search sucks because the world wide web doesn't exist anymore. The blogs that held it together with links are paywalled, big publishers paywall and don't link, the platforms users post to don't link. You're left with reddit and Wikipedia.
I need accounts like this to actually link to the story they’re citing. If I have the right link, this strikes me as an overstatement.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
At one of my recent places of employment I was instructed not to link to anything other than that place’s own articles, because that was one of the criteria by which Google assesses the quality of a site—if you have to link out, how good could you be? Contravened the basic idea of the web.
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One of the things I learned teaching search literacy is that search sucks because the world wide web doesn't exist anymore. The blogs that held it together with links are paywalled, big publishers paywall and don't link, the platforms users post to don't link. You're left with reddit and Wikipedia.
I need accounts like this to actually link to the story they’re citing. If I have the right link, this strikes me as an overstatement.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
One of the things I learned teaching search literacy is that search sucks because the world wide web doesn't exist anymore. The blogs that held it together with links are paywalled, big publishers paywall and don't link, the platforms users post to don't link. You're left with reddit and Wikipedia.
Naturally I’d watch but yes-and! Assuming the post rebellion/New Republic era is full of cold Wars and spy craft with Hutts, Imp remnants, and other rivals…Star Wars but The Sandbaggers is on the table, too.
what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Naturally I’d watch but yes-and! Assuming the post rebellion/New Republic era is full of cold Wars and spy craft with Hutts, Imp remnants, and other rivals…Star Wars but The Sandbaggers is on the table, too.
It is great. But, damn, if high-quality scholars come to equate talking to us with, effectively, snitching? We’ve cooked ourselves.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It is great. But, damn, if high-quality scholars come to equate talking to us with, effectively, snitching? We’ve cooked ourselves.
Yeah, see, y’all remember Vince Gilligan from Breakng Bad, but this is X-Files Gilligan right here.
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Yeah, see, y’all remember Vince Gilligan from Breakng Bad, but this is X-Files Gilligan right here.
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Story: Many years ago, every few months over a period of 5+ years, I would head up to Cold Spring Harbor Labs to work on an Evolution textbook (see cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...).
cshlpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Story: Many years ago, every few months over a period of 5+ years, I would head up to Cold Spring Harbor Labs to work on an Evolution textbook (see cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...).