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Arthur Holland Michel
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Friendly reminders about spooky technologies.

Words in Wired, The Economist, The Atlantic, and others. Author of “Eyes in the Sky”
“When we think about cigarettes, there’s so much nuance to consider, which is what this program is about. How might we tell more deeply human stories? What does it look like to coexist with cigarettes? What are some of the dilemmas that are going to come up when everyone is addicted to cigarettes?”
May 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It is a terrifying sign of the times that people in AI can say something like "technology brings writers closer to their ideas" and newspapers will repeat those words, without caveat, as though they make any sense whatsoever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/b...
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Tipping your hat to ChatGPT and Grammarly in the Acknowledgments 🤦‍♂️

www.arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10066
May 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"We'll use drones and new tech"

Translation: "We don't have a solution to this problem but we want to scare you into thinking that we do"
April 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Grok sending horny unsolicited texts at 11pm on a Saturday lol
February 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I can’t really explain it, and I know we’re only a few days into the year, but something about Enron coming back as a micro-nuclear reactor business feels very 2025.
January 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Not NORAD picking the absolute worst possible time to fly a bunch of unusual aircraft at low altitude in the middle of the night over DC.

h/t @oriana0214.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Not NORAD picking the absolute worst possible time to fly a bunch of unusual aircraft at low altitude in the middle of the night over DC.

h/t @oriana0214.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 9:59 PM
By all accounts, many left the briefing with more questions than answers…
December 14, 2024 at 2:32 PM
According to the mayor of Hopatcong, the 250+ NJ mayors briefed on Dec 13 by the NJ state police were told that the drones fly for 6-7 hours and they are “reportedly the size of small SUVs”
December 14, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Home security startup founder casually throwing around the idea of autonomous killer robots guards.

@nitasha.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
December 5, 2024 at 11:08 PM