Technology

The Getting Thing Done mindset continues in calls to have AI automate everything important in your life.

Silicon Valley's overconfidence in the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence stems from a combination of limited understanding of the humanities, an insular culture, and a business model that incentivizes exaggerated claims about AI's capabilities.

The rise of the personal brand has led to a focus on selling oneself rather than one's creations.

It's impossible to build a search engine that isn't biased and doesn't manipulate results. But it is possible to convince conservatives you can.

The more you ask follow-up questions, the worse the answers get.

Journalists‘ attachment to Twitter stems from a conflation of the platform with the act of journalism itself.

Threads has significantly more active users than Bluesky, but feels a lot smaller. Why?

Is it wrong to have a social media feed primarily of people you agree with?

A simple method using automatic email forwards and Zapier.

Chatbots can help students understand concepts when their teachers can't.

X is no longer representative of the national discourse. But many of our journalists and thought leaders believe it is—and that's bad for them, and for our national character.

Substack is in trouble, and their recent feature releases are evidence of that.

Social media convinces us our small communities are representative of the whole and tells us we’re more right than we really are.