Index
Writing Archive
162 items published since April 20, 2007
2025
- "The logical endpoint of 21st-century America: An influencer shot to death at a school in front of a crowd of smartphones." noteworthy
September 12, 2025 - Charlie Kirk Does Not Deserve Your Respect noteworthy
September 11, 2025 - Law enforcement officers are no longer trustworthy sources for journalists microblog
September 11, 2025 - Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops noteworthy
September 9, 2025 - The Democrats must defend trans people microblog
September 5, 2025 - A Child's Treasury of RFK Jr. Bullshit microblog
September 4, 2025 - We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health noteworthy
September 1, 2025 - You are not persuading the text pipeline! microblog
August 30, 2025 - peopleWatching | Season Premiere | Full Episode noteworthy
August 30, 2025 - ChatGPT Doesn't Kill People, OpenAI's Malfeasance Kills People microblog
August 26, 2025 - Zohran Mamdani shows that Silicon Valley is About Isolation noteworthy
August 20, 2025 - ChatGPT as a MMORPG microblog
August 11, 2025 - Trump asserts control of Washington D.C. police, will deploy National Guard in nation's capital noteworthy
August 11, 2025 - You Can’t Separate Harry Potter from J.K. Rowling noteworthy
August 10, 2025 - XSLT is still important noteworthy
August 7, 2025 - In America the car, the gun, the factory, all have more rights than you do. noteworthy
August 6, 2025 - Ghost is building a blogger decentralized future noteworthy
August 5, 2025 - You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism noteworthy
August 3, 2025 - Republicans killing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a crime that should haunt the party forever. noteworthy
August 1, 2025 - The EPA deregulation of greenhouse gases is life-threatening noteworthy
July 30, 2025 - Attention labor & symbolic engineering for preserving agency noteworthy
July 29, 2025 - Frontier AI Labs: the Call Option to AGI noteworthy
July 28, 2025 - Is anyone left to defend trust and safety? noteworthy
July 25, 2025 - The sound of inevitability noteworthy
July 24, 2025 - 30,000 words in microblog
July 22, 2025 - AI generates bullshit jobs microblog
July 21, 2025 - In an inevitable move, Substack turns to ad tech noteworthy
July 17, 2025 - "In Andreessen's world, the only virtue is acceleration, ... regardless of the human cost" noteworthy
July 16, 2025 - The Bureaucratic Banality of Andor noteworthy
July 16, 2025 - "Everything works badly, everything can be turned against you, and everyone else has fled" noteworthy
July 15, 2025 - Google kills the fact-checking snippet noteworthy
July 14, 2025 - They're Literally Angry at Superman for Being Nice noteworthy
July 8, 2025 - This is what the web feels like noteworthy
July 8, 2025 - Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani noteworthy
July 2, 2025 - “‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is a concentration camp” noteworthy
July 2, 2025 - Trump Launches America’s Newest Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch noteworthy
July 2, 2025 - Supreme Court Cripples FCC Further, Making Robocall Enforcement Likely Impossible noteworthy
June 30, 2025 - The Conservatives On The Supreme Court Are So Scared Of Nudity, They’ll Throw Out The First Amendment noteworthy
June 27, 2025 - Dingus of the week: Everyone who is mad about Zohran Mamdani noteworthy
June 27, 2025 - At Work, at School, and Online, It’s Now AI Versus AI noteworthy
June 26, 2025 - Documentation matters. Fighting corruption matters. noteworthy
June 26, 2025 - Here's how I know more people read my personal blog via RSS then any other platform noteworthy
June 25, 2025 - If you're normal, people will vote for you actually noteworthy
June 25, 2025 - Is the Rise of Trash Assemblage Art a Recession Indicator? noteworthy
June 23, 2025 - Working with Readwise... microblog
June 17, 2025 - When will ad tech measurement not be a mess of fraud? microblog
June 16, 2025 - NYT's Editorial Board should have stayed out of the mayoral race microblog
June 16, 2025 - AI systems (mostly ChatGPT) keep sending people into mental health spirals noteworthy
June 13, 2025 - Here Lies Regular Order (2025-2025) noteworthy
June 10, 2025 - Don't rank Andrew Cuomo in NYC's Mayoral Election, 50 reasons why noteworthy
June 5, 2025 - Americans trust PBS because it’s publicly funded, not in spite of it noteworthy
June 4, 2025 - ICE should not be investigating Colorado microblog
June 3, 2025 - The Post-Left and Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America noteworthy
June 2, 2025 - Code is a joy thought
May 31, 2025 - the best science podcast isn't what you think noteworthy
May 30, 2025 - A great blog post on the art of programming languages and the culture of programming noteworthy
May 30, 2025 - 20 things I would do with Pocket if they gave it to me thought
May 23, 2025 - Randy Pitchford is terrible noteworthy
May 20, 2025 - Democrats still fail to understand what a media that opposes Trump would actually look like noteworthy
May 20, 2025 - Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds noteworthy
May 20, 2025 - Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway bet $30 million they know how to run a podcast better than you noteworthy
May 19, 2025 - Technology is not an end in itself microblog
May 18, 2025 - National Trust for Local News Sells 21 Newspapers noteworthy
May 14, 2025 - Congressional Republicans hedge as the White House targets habeas corpus noteworthy
May 12, 2025 - Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic noteworthy
May 8, 2025 - The Contrarian Mode and Freakonomics Self-Destruction noteworthy
May 7, 2025 - The Daily Dot's Doom noteworthy
May 7, 2025 - Notes on "Notes on Vanishing" noteworthy
May 2, 2025 - Data can't drive everything microblog
April 18, 2025 - How Google took control over online advertising, according to those who watched it happen noteworthy
April 18, 2025 - Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse noteworthy
April 16, 2025 - Streaming ads's disorder is a symptom of how little entertainment companies care about creative Works noteworthy
April 14, 2025 - A British tourist was trying to leave America. Then she was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre noteworthy
April 8, 2025 - Gowanus Canal's history of waste and pollution doesn't sync well with developer aspirations. noteworthy
April 8, 2025 - The CDC Has Been Gutted noteworthy
April 1, 2025 - Blake Lively Becomes the Latest Target of the Harassment Tactics Developed by GamerGate. noteworthy
March 20, 2025 - When you come back around to the music and find it lovely microblog
March 19, 2025 - DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread noteworthy
March 17, 2025 - My presentations from the 2025 CMA college media convention microblog
March 2, 2025 - X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks With Ad Giant to Increase Spending noteworthy
February 19, 2025 - Weimar+ Invites a Post-NATO Future, the End of America's Global Influence thought
February 14, 2025 - Shopify avoids judgement call on Nazis symbols by ducking behind fraud excuse noteworthy
February 13, 2025 - Hidden Writings noteworthy
February 13, 2025 - Roost Must Prove Itself Good. That's a Reasonable Request thought
February 11, 2025 - The Yeezy Shirt microblog
February 10, 2025 - Building a Timeline to keep track of Bird Flu microblog
February 3, 2025 - The Point of Elon Musk is What He Does microblog
January 23, 2025 - If the federal government hosts something important to you, archive it yourself microblog
January 21, 2025 - Fighting for facts in the era of Trump and Musk noteworthy
January 20, 2025 - Diplomatic crisis over Greenland intensifies between Denmark and future Trump administration noteworthy
January 20, 2025 - A really great run-through of some top level privacy concerns around AI noteworthy
January 14, 2025 - Vulture Report on Neil Gaiman Makes it All Too Real noteworthy
January 13, 2025 - Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era noteworthy
January 10, 2025 - The bounty hunter tendency, the future of privacy, and ad tech's new profit frontier. noteworthy
January 9, 2025 - Not In My Name - Heritage Foundation's plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors noteworthy
January 8, 2025
2024
- Don't Post AI at Me thought
December 31, 2024 - Former Allies Blame YouTube for Conspiracy Mindset That Led South Korea President to Declare Martial Law noteworthy
December 31, 2024 - Never Forgive Them noteworthy
December 27, 2024 - Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam - YouTube noteworthy
December 26, 2024 - The questions to ask when considering if AI content scraping should qualify as fair use noteworthy
December 19, 2024 - Trump ramps up legal threats against media noteworthy
December 17, 2024 - A New Social launches, supporting Bridgy Fed noteworthy
December 17, 2024 - The phony comforts of the AI industry's useful idiots noteworthy
December 9, 2024 - For 8 Months, Traffic Enforcement on New Jersey’s Highways Plummeted noteworthy
December 9, 2024 - Defining AI as a political project noteworthy
December 9, 2024 - Stop using generative AI as a search engine noteworthy
December 6, 2024 - Bitcoin is worth $100,000. It still doesn't have a single legitimate use case noteworthy
December 6, 2024 - Moral Hazard glossary
December 6, 2024 - Post-election journalism needs to be something different noteworthy
November 8, 2024 - Good analysis of the 2024 election thought
November 7, 2024 - Is the future of the Democratic Party leftist influencers? Is that even possible? noteworthy
November 7, 2024 - Places I am currently watching the election results thought
November 6, 2024 - After Election Day noteworthy
November 5, 2024 - I can not believe we have to talk about fluoride in water as a national topic again thought
November 4, 2024 - A site for checking if your friends voted in this and previous elections. noteworthy
November 4, 2024 - Trump Transition Chair Blurts Out Plan to End All Vaccines noteworthy
October 31, 2024 - The United States of Abortion Mazes noteworthy
October 25, 2024 - NPR Stations Launch Text-Only Sites for Low Bandwidth Users in Crisis Areas noteworthy
October 11, 2024 - How abortion foes are using transphobia to derail NY's Equal Rights Amendment noteworthy
October 5, 2024 - Eng ladders, promotions & glue work noteworthy
October 4, 2024 - Why must things break at the same time thought
October 3, 2024 - Abstraction-itis noteworthy
October 3, 2024 - Cope Is A Terrible Way Not To Die | Defector noteworthy
September 24, 2024 - 11ty is joining Font Awesome noteworthy
September 12, 2024 - The goal isn't to write less code noteworthy
September 9, 2024 - When a Real Estate Boom Came to a Toxic Corner of Brooklyn noteworthy
September 6, 2024 - Why "AI" projects fail noteworthy
September 3, 2024 - No one’s ready for this noteworthy
August 30, 2024 - Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott noteworthy
August 6, 2024 - Advertisers say their Google ads are showing up on X. Why? noteworthy
August 5, 2024 - J.K. Rowling Invents A Trans Olympian To Get Mad At | Defector noteworthy
August 1, 2024 - LATCH glossary
July 31, 2024 - Google's reCAPTCHAv2 has stolen 6.1 billion dollars in labor, wasted 7.5 million kWhs of energy, and aggressively tracks you (PDF). noteworthy
July 23, 2024 - POSIWID glossary
July 23, 2024 - Every tech company trying to add on ad tech has to remember to take bullshit and fraud into account thought
July 19, 2024 - TESCREAL glossary
July 5, 2024 - Has Facebook Stopped Trying? noteworthy
June 24, 2024 - The Internet is a Series of Webs essay
June 8, 2024 - Using Python to fix my broken Spotify account by cleaning out Liked Songs noteworthy
May 31, 2024 - As Roblox expands its advertising network, child safety concerns are on the horizon noteworthy
May 22, 2024 - E.N.T.E.R. glossary
May 22, 2024 - Scared about America losing democracy? Texas is already gone noteworthy
May 21, 2024 - Have You Seen A Cybertruck Yet? | Defector noteworthy
May 21, 2024 - What went wrong at Red Lobster noteworthy
May 18, 2024 - Pulling in latest changes changelog
May 18, 2024 - Personal vs. Personalized AI noteworthy
May 16, 2024 - WB/D is throwing films in the trash and their big alternative is.... more LotR films ? thought
May 13, 2024 - 3rd party cookie delay is no excuse for brands to delay acting noteworthy
May 13, 2024 - The killer app for AR glasses is shipping a version without a camera installed. thought
May 2, 2024 - We can have a different web noteworthy
May 1, 2024 - The Revenge of the Home Page noteworthy
May 1, 2024 - Shifting Baselines glossary
May 1, 2024 - We Need To Rewild The Internet noteworthy
April 20, 2024 - The next decade of the web noteworthy
April 19, 2024 - Arielle Garcia asking good questions at Check My Ads noteworthy
April 18, 2024 - AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? noteworthy
April 17, 2024 - Branching off from PhotoGabble changelog
April 16, 2024 - How to export your links from Pocket tutorial
April 15, 2024 - Using Amplify as a Type thought
April 14, 2024 - KTLO - Keep The Lights On glossary
April 5, 2024 - The state of groceries' cost increase in 2024 noteworthy
April 1, 2024 - Growth Stage glossary
March 19, 2024